JAKE OWEN

                                                               "Drunk On A Boat" 

                                                               Big Loud Records

As “Best Thing Since Backroads” continues to impact the charts and keeps inching Jake Owen closer to his next Top 20 song, he now gives us a taste of more of his new music with “Drunk On A Boat.”

The song, written by Rodney Clawson, Jake Mitchell, and David Lee Murphy, acknowledges that there’s a ton of stuff/chores to do today, but also encourages you to forget about all of that and enjoy that one last hurrah as summer fades into fall.

Owen having become a summer tilted good time Charlie over the years, perfectly suits the carefree attitude and float on a breeze melody of the song as he sings of needing to cut the grass and stack the wood, but how those clear blue skies are making it look more and more like that stuff just ain’t gonna happen, because simply put, the Bayliner chained to the oak tree in his yard is busy teasing him. 

The lyrics then touch on all the typical buttons that a song of this nature would: calling up the girls, heading out on the water, getting buzzed on beer, jumping into the water to float, etc.

However, as typical as this song could have been, the writers are clever enough to add a twist to the story that keeps things perfectly in line with having lazy day when Owen sings of taking the boat out to the lake, “Soon as we fix that trailer flat tire” - something that it never says he actually does in this song.

Because of this aspect, “Drunk on a Boat” becomes nothing more than daydreaming about how the day could be, rather than how it actually is. This aspect provides a unique flare to the song that makes it just different enough from all the others that are similar, and it then really elevates the question he sings, “who doesn’t wanna be drunk on a boat?”

Jake Owen is one of country music’s most consistent male artists and he continues to hit his intended demographic with each song that he releases, all while strategically teasing his new music and things still to come which is aptly doing the trick to creating a huge amount of buzz about his next studio album.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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