Hallelujah!
A well written country. A song that is written is mainstream pleasing yet has been wrote in the style of a country song. Amazing!

This however is not the only well written country song out there today. The saving grace here amongst other well written mainstream country songs is that neither a loud, car wreck of a production nor the vocals of a screaming/bombastic singer bog down the material. The restrained 90′s country production and gravely, yet subtle, vocal work allow the strong material to shine bright. It’s as if Jesus himself un-plugged his ears, came down and shouted “ENOUGH ALREADY”!!!

I’d be excited for the future of Thomas “That Ain’t My Truck” Rhett if his first song weren’t “Something to Do With My Hands”. Maybe mercy will be had on us outcast, traditional country music fans and Thomas Rhett will turn out to be more Chris Young and less Brantley Gilbert, but I’m not holding out much hope for that one. In the mean time though, I’ll put this song into my rotation and hit repeat once and a while.

While I’m sick of all the current crop of songs mentioning trucks, I still do like “That Ain’t My Truck”.

Since you’re reviewing a song about Jesus, I’ll mention a Burr-Shaw song ,”God and Me”, in which they sit down for tea instead of beer. I prefer Victoria Shaw’s original recording to a recent version by Kristen Chenowith.

since this one falls nicely into the category “quite intelligent jesus tunes”, i quite like it, even though i was a bit anxiously waiting to hear the line “love your love the most” somewhere in it.

I was a little surprised by your comment on “What Would Jesus Do (If Jesus Came to Your House),” since I recalled you having commented favorably on that song in the past. Personally, I never really viewed its message as being a harsh ‘Jesus would judge you if he came to your house’ so much as a thought-provoking ‘Would you have reason to feel ashamed if Jesus came to your house?’