Here’s a great new song from Charlie Overbey, a Californian with a southern soul. It’s an anthemic mid-tempo country tune about …well, getting in trouble. What’s more country than that? Joining Charlie with some great backing vocals is Eleanor Whitmore. I don’t want to call it an outlaw song, but it certainly dabbles in the habits and misfortunes of that brand of country. Definitely a great Friday tune and a solid introduction to his forthcoming album, Broken Arrow. Give it a listen!
From Charlie:
“Trouble Likes Me Best” was written about a combo of truths from a trip to the county jail in Nashville to witnessing a couple of stoned young ladies driving onto the highway off-ramp in Los Angeles, CA.
David Allan Coe once said to me while touring together, “I shoulda written that fuckin’ song~!“
But my favorite is that my father used to say, “That’s the best song you ever wrote, son. Who wrote that?”