People Are Crazy – Billy Currington

This song makes me smile every time I heat it. Love the simple story of it, I can fully imagine meeting that old guy at the bar, loving hearing his stories and getting his views on this mad world. This is a Country song in it's truest form, telling a tale of love and friendship. The lyrics are so clever and it reminds me of Kenny Rogers classic 'Lucille' as it places the listener right there in the sounds and smells of the bar and what's going on around them. It's so descriptive it makes you want to know the outcome, pull up a stool and order a cold one.

The backing is a true Country shuffle with what almost sounds like a nursery rhyme hook, it's not over complicated and helps you hear the story unfold. The nature of the song's sentiment also gives the song a purpose, because let's face it 'People are crazy.'

The payoff being that the story teller gets rewarded for being kind to a stranger is also a good life lesson. It's a situation I'm very fond of just sitting wasting time at a bar, beer in my hand and talking rubbish. As they say it's often better to listen, and I could listen to that old man and this song forever.

Love the words, it's one of those songs that doesn't take itself seriously, some of the rhyming is way off and has to break into the next line. That's a sign of a fully constructed song where the writers sat down with an idea in mind and just had to tell a story, fitting it in as they went rather than trying to follow the formula.

Favourite lyric : Front page obituary / He was a millionaire he