Drink a Little Beer (Commentary)

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We are playing all the songs off the album for you, and

I gotta be honest, there are some song on here that maybe some people might think
"Oh, you know, that was a curve ball or
The sound of that, maybe," this one actually kinda caught me by surprise
Because it's perhaps one of the more country sounding songs
On here, in terms of fiddle and throwback
It reminded me of kinda Alabama throwback
"Drink A Little Beer", which features your dad on there
And he also had a hand in writing that, so
I mean talk to me about this song and the fact that
In some ways, I mean it's almost like blending his 90s career
With where you are today

Yeah, I think it's hilarious that
I think it kinda proves that we've curved out enough of a lane in this genre
For that to be the weirdest song on the record
(It kinda shocked me) I think like
That's such a funny, and I think that's why I cut it 'cause I think
I love just making people be like, "Wow"
Like "I was definitely not expecting that"
And this is one of those ones that I think, I know for a fact when people hear this record
When they get to that song they're gonna think, "I cannot believe that this track is on here"
And so, it's nice to just dive back in to what I grew up listening to
And actually cut an original song that has such an ode to like 70s and 80s country
And especially to have my dad, who that's when he grew up
Uhm, to have a song like that with him on it
That basically describes why he loves country music in the first place
And so the song is cool, and the song is super catchy
And I think it'll be a really great song live, but more so than that
It's just, you know, as old as I get
I can always say that me and my dad sang a song together on my record

Well, and I was gonna ask, the end is kinda fun
And somebody described to me, "Oh, wait the Alan Jackson moment's gonna be coming"
So did you guys just sorta leave the tape rolling or was that planned?
Like, "Hey, we're just gonna riff at the end of this song"

Well, you know when the song ends it goes into that double time section at the end
Which is such as staple of that time or period
And also was the guy talking over the outro
And so like we decided that we were just kinda gonna go back and forth, and
You know jab at each other a little bit, and it was just really, really fun
Yeah, I loved your dad's line, "I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know"
Exactly, I'm pretty sure he stole that from someone
I'm sure he did, but he'll never tell you who
Well, again it's called "Drink A Little Beer" it features Thomas's dad Rhett Akins
And it is on Big Machine Radio