Anne Wilson - "Songs About Whiskey"

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Artist: Anne Wilson
Single: Songs About Whiskey
Album: REBEL
Label: EMI Nashville
Impact Date: 3rd June, 2024 (Country Aircheck weekly)
Writers: Jeff Pardo, Anne Wilson, Lauren Hungate, Matthew West

Anne Wilson's second attempt at country radio.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

I'm happy to see her getting another attempt! This song has a catchier melody than her debut, so hopefully more stations would pick up this song and she can eventually chart.

[.indulgecountry]

Also glad to see they're pushing another single. Rebel is one of only 4 albums released in 2024 thus far to debut in the top 10 of the country albums chart, and the others are obvious big names (Beyonce, Kacey, Kenny), so there's clearly a big audience for Anne Wilson out there. Would love to see this crack the charts at the very least. It's quite catchy and more radio-ready as 🌺CountryLineDancer said above, and the song's hook ("That's why I sing songs about Jesus / Instead of singing songs about whiskey") is so cleverly presented imo.

Love the album, too! She's got a lot of great options other than this if they should eventually need and/or want to try a third single @ country radio.

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May 16, 2024 21:26:35 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Also glad to see they're pushing another single. Rebel is one of only 4 albums released in 2024 thus far to debut in the top 10 of the country albums chart, and the others are obvious big names (Beyonce, Kacey, Kenny), so there's clearly a big audience for Anne Wilson out there. Would love to see this crack the charts at the very least. It's quite catchy and more radio-ready as 🌺CountryLineDancer said above, and the song's hook ("That's why I sing songs about Jesus / Instead of singing songs about whiskey") is so cleverly presented imo.

Just realized Sierra Ferrell's latest album is the 5th highest debut in terms of rank. Deserved though.

I do think this is radio-ready because well, like some other songs from this vein it references radio after all, but the hook doesn't really work for me and feel like a laundry list style writing effort.

[Kanenrá:ke]

This is a good selection for single, was a stand out on my first listen to the album.

Will be interesting to see if radio takes to her after the chilly reception of the first single.