Download Instrumental    In my sophomore year of college, I played a solo gig at a VFW in downtown Terre Haute, Indiana. It was a sudden introduction to country music and I had to learn a bunch of country tunes really fast. It was also the first time I’d seen anyone actually “cry in their beer”.  People really do that, you know.  You don’t see it often, but when you do it kinda sticks in your brain.

I loved playing that club.  I can still see couples swaying on the dance floor to this song by the great George Jones (my backing tracks are on the Country List if you think you’d like to trot this one out again).  I played a similar arrangement to this way back when – but then I didn’t have the luxury of a multi-track keyboard that could mimic every instrument.  I’d give anything to go back there and do it right – harmonica, guitar, fiddle – the whole works.  You couldn’t give this song justice as a solo piano player, but they still danced and cuddled and swayed and…. cried in their beer.   Good times.