JAY ALLEN - Whiskey In The World- ONErpm

With each next song leading up to his new album Des Moines, “Better Now,” “New Girl,” “No Present Like The Time,” and “Halfway House,” Jay Allen transparently invited us into the pages of his diary, sharing pieces of his journey of overcoming loss, battling grief, and ultimately, emerging out the other side of it as a new man with a fresh perspective on life.

With the album officially now released, he shares its vulnerable focus track “Whiskey In The World.”

The song, written Allen and Kyle Schlienger, brushes his rock kissed aura into his modern country vibes to accentuate the perfect fusion of his overall sound, lyrically pulling emotional heartstrings that allow for his natural vocal edge to weave the continual brokenness in the aftermath of loss.

“I wanna let you go, but girl I gotta let you know that I can't get you off my mind,” he admits in the opening verse, striking  the lift of the chorus while guiding the grit of his vocal through the hurtful realization that no matter how much he tries to drink away the memories of what used to be, there’s not enough alcohol in the world to do the trick.

“I've tried bourbon from the bottle

Drank moonshine with the moon

Been sipping that fire in the middle of the night

Anything to get me through

I've tried burning down your memory

Tried drowning out the truth

But there ain't enough whiskey in the world

To get me over you”

Continuing to grip the harsh realities of not only how hard it is to say goodbye but spiraling deeper into the truth that the vice he’s relying on isn’t even numbing the pain, “It's only getting worse with every double shot I buy,” leads to his fractured-hearted confession that “I’d be lying if I said that I’m okay.”

Though the foundations of this song started out as something so personal to Jay’s struggle with losing his mother, a coping mechanism in and of itself in writing this as a piece of his own healing medication, he’s managed to craft “Whiskey In The World” in such a unique way that it holds tightly to any type of heartbreak we experience in life, giving it a universal connection that provides an anthem of embrace to anyone going through the broken trenches.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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