Songoftheday 1/19/24 - If money grew on hackberry trees and time wasn't such a luxury, if love was lovesick over me...

 

 

"That'd Be Alright" - Alan Jackson

from the album Drive (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #29 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 8

 

Today's song comes from neo-traditional country music artist Alan Jackson, whose tenth studio album Drive had already spun off three hits that crossed over to the top-40 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 with "Work In Progress", "Drive (For Daddy Gene)", and the sole reverent 9/11 tribute "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)".  The fourth and final official single from the album was "That'd Be Alright", written by Tim Nichols, Mark Sanders, and Tia Sillers. The lyrics read out like a centrist's pipe dream, with everybody having just a little more to make it. It does take a (slightly) darker turn with the lines "If my dear old dog never got old, if the family farm never got sold", again like other songs he's done without emphasizing who's to blame for the latter. But Alan delivers the medicine in a jovial fashion, and it's not as didactic as it could be (just wait until Monday's SOTD). The production from Keith Stegall is pleasant but a tad sleep-inducingly static. The music video has Jackson making fun of the process of making a music video, which in itself has been run into the ground, though the plethora of Alan look-a-likes is cute....

"That'd Be Alright" became the fourth song from Drive to make the top-40 on Billboard's Hot 100 in April of 2003, while spending a week at #2 on the Country Songs airplay chart.

Alan will be back to the series.

(4/10)

Tomorrow I'll cart out my top hit tunes from this past week, and Song of the day will return Monday with the nadir of post-9/11 patriot milking.