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Where Have You Gone
Country · 2021 · 20 tracks · 1h 19m

Where Have You Gone

Alan Jackson

Eighty minutes of unapologetic neotraditional country. Sparse arrangements, weeping pedal steel, and a baritone voice mourning the passage of time.

May 14, 2021 · ACR

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A heavy, dignified sadness that feels like watching the sun set on a way of life.

Tracklist · 20 Tracks · 1h 19m
01
Where Have You Gone
4:46
02
Wishful Drinkin’
3:50
03
I Can Be That Something
4:40
04
Where the Cottonwood Grows
3:01
05
Way Down in My Whiskey
3:56
06
Things That Matter
3:42
07
Livin’ on Empty
4:31
08
You’ll Always Be My Baby
3:46
09
Where Her Heart Has Always Been
3:27
10
The Boot
3:24
11
Back
5:13
12
Write It in Red
4:15
13
So Late So Soon
3:46
14
This Heart of Mine
3:18
15
A Man Who Never Cries
4:55
16
Chain
3:06
17
I Was Tequila
5:10
18
I Do
2:51
19
Beer:10
4:18
20
The Older I Get
3:49
Moments Worth Listening For
The title track opens with a stark, lonely fiddle that feels like a funeral for a genre.
A recording of Jackson's mother singing a hymn at the end of track 9, captured shortly before her passing.
The way the pedal steel bends into a minor key on track 5, mimicking the physical sensation of a heavy heart.
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