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It Would Be You
Country · 1998 · 11 tracks

It Would Be You

Gary Allan

Bakersfield-style heartbreak. Dusty pedal steel and a gravelly baritone turn traditional honky-tonk into something deeply intimate and modern.

May 19, 1998 · Decca

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A weary, smoke-filled meditation on the endurance of heartbreak and the ghosts of the Bakersfield sound.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
It Would Be You
2:55
02
No Man in His Wrong Heart
4:13
03
Don’t Leave Her Lonely Too Long
3:35
04
I’ll Take Today
2:57
05
I Ain’t Runnin Yet
4:28
06
She Loves Me (She Don’t Love You)
3:22
07
I’ve Got a Quarter in My Pocket
2:34
08
Baby I Will
3:12
09
Red Lips, Blue Eyes, Little White Lies
3:00
10
It Took Us All Night Long to Say Goodbye
3:03
11
Forgotten, but Not Gone
9:09
Moments Worth Listening For
The way the pedal steel weeps through the title track's chorus, mimicking the hurricane-force heartache described in the lyrics.
The sudden, sharp bite of the electric guitar solo in 'She Loves Me (She Don't Love You)' that cuts through the polite honky-tonk shuffle.
The devastatingly quiet delivery of the final verse in 'Forgotten, but Not Gone' where the silence between words carries the weight of a dying marriage.
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It runs notably cooler and more held-back than this artist's baseline.

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