Following the Feeling

Country · 1980 · 10 tracks · 27m

Following the Feeling

Polished yet pained honky-tonk from 1980. Weeping steel guitars and baritone tales of whiskey and regret recorded with Nashville's finest session players.

1980 · Columbia

A weary, whiskey-soaked reflection on the cost of living and loving hard.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 27m

01

Following the Feeling

2:52

02

Today I Almost Stopped Loving You

2:33

03

Would You Mind If I Just Call You Julie

2:56

04

Mexico Winter

2:57

05

Liquor Emotion

2:49

06

My Woman Loves the Devil Out of Me

2:44

07

It's You and Me Again

2:25

08

I've Got Your Love All Over Me

2:35

09

If I Lay Down the Bottle, Would You Lay Back Down With Me

3:16

10

It's Better Than Being Alone

2:33

Moments Worth Listening For

The title track's opening pedal steel swell that immediately establishes a mood of romantic resignation.

The desperate, vulnerable vocal delivery on track 9 where the arrangement strips back to let the plea land with full weight.

The interplay between the honky-tonk piano and the fiddle on Mexico Winter, creating a sense of displaced nostalgia.

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