Twenty Greatest Singles of the CU Era: Kane Brown, “Whiskey Sour”

For as much as modern country acts pay lip service to the genre’s halcyon days of the 90s, they rarely demonstrate more than a shallow understanding of why the music of that era was transformative for the genre. They hit the notes– some of them do, at least– but they don’t hear the music. “Whiskey Sour,” in contrast, is fully in conversation with the best ballads of Randy Travis, Clint Black, or Alan Jackson.