[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wvMNu15Uwo]
This is, for lack of a better term, one of the most honest songs I've heard in a long time. It's not just the lyrics and meaning behind the song; it's about the feel of it. It might be the straight forward, almost traditional country sound that lets the lyrics really stand out in front of the rest of the song. I'm not sure, but right from the first line about being mayor of Sorryville, I was hooked. Follow it with lines about building a new bridge and bringing a can of gasoline to the opening of it, and you've got some clever juxtaposition between reality and figures of speech.
Knight is a successful songwriter, most popularly writing Montgomery Gentry's hit "She Couldn't Change Me". The song performed above was written by Knight, but it was cut by three other artists: John Anderson, Blake Shelton, and Jason McCoy. The only other version I've heard beyond Knight's is Shelton's, and, very possibly because he wrote it, Knight's is by far the more pure of the two vocals, and far more believable. I'd like to hear the Anderson version, but I can't find it.
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