Sarah Shook and the Disarmers' album Years will be a sleeper pick on a lot of mid-year country and Americana lists, based partly on breakup song and drinking anthem combo "The Bottle Never Lets Me Down."
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As the title implies, Shook sings of someone so broken from a bad relationship that they only find solace in downing drinks. There's equal parts self-defeat and sass (I'm a drunk? Tell me something I didn't know!) in this clear nod to Merle Haggard's legendary song "The Bottle Let Me Down." This, of course, comes from a group that's way more Hag-like than the riff-lifting Keith Urban.
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The video itself mostly shows the band in action, teasing the energy and passion the Disarmers pour into live sets. Throughout the video, a spinning bottle seems to represent either the random risks of self-medicating or the flippant love life decisions that make drinking to forget seem necessary.
In all, it's a quintessential sad country song -- the type that'll make you feel a singer's pain or appreciate relationship stability, depending on your current situation.
