Gary Allen - Learning to Bend

This is some real mainstream commercial Nashville country. And it is awesome. As I've written One of the things I find pretty fascinating about country music is the level of emotional sophistication it demands from it's practitioners. Certainly a male rock performer would never get away with a song like this, with references to " being a lover and a friend" and "Learning how to bend." Now because it's country this is admittedly relentlessly over egged to beyond mawkishness and the strings aren't really necessary. But the falsetto on the chorus is exactly the right amount of too much.