![]() Lonely” adds a couple of keyboards to the arrangement, giving a barroom piano some time to shine (especially on the second verse) and mixing an organ into the background. Lonely,” the instruments tend to stick together, with only the steel guitar stepping out to perform a surprisingly lively solo (I don’t think Hank did it that way, but I don’t think he’d complain either). “Make A Little” tend to feature instruments a bit more individually, drooping to sticks-only percussion to open the choruses and turning the electric guitar loose on the bridge solo.Lonely” is…honestly, the more I listen to the two songs back-to-back, the more they sound like the same darn song. I called “Make A Little” “an uptempo, brightly-toned mix that generates a ton of positive energy, and it feels tailor-made for bringing people out onto the dance floor of a dusty old honky-tonk,” and “Mr. ![]() ![]() Everything I loved about the trio’s first few singles is present and accounted for here, and while this song is more of a spiritual successor to “Make A Little” than the other two tracks (in fact, a cynic might say that they’re basically the same song), Midland and Big Machine have decided that the formula is enough of a winner to stick with it, and when the result is this enjoyable, I am totally on board. Lonely,” the group’s presumed leadoff single for their second album, is a definitive declaration that the group is sticking to their guns. The radio’s reaction, however, has been a bit more tempered, and after “Burn Out” peaked at #3 after a forty-plus-week chart climb (and then dropped like a rock immediately afterwards), I was left with one lingering question: What will the band’s next single sound like? The old-school sound that the group showcased on On The Rocks hadn’t exactly set the world on fire, so would they double down and stick with their current sound, or would they change things up and try to blend in more with mainstream Nashville? So yeah, I’ve drank a lot of Midland kool-aid over the past two years. “Make A Little” was the weakest of the three singles, so I only gave it an eight.“Drinkin’ Problem” was my #1 song of 2017.On The Rocks will probably go down as my favorite album of the decade.At this point, I’m probably the last person whose word you should trust on a Midland single:
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