All Your'n - Tyler Childers

All Your'n - Tyler Childers

3:38

Country Squire, 2019

Written by Tyler Childers

This is a beautiful country love song, but there's something almost soulful about the way Childers sings it. The arrangement is fairly spare and old-fashioned— a sort of fusion of '70s soul and classic country rock), with a warm organ and steady rhythm underneath his rough, passionate voice. The lyrics are straightforward without being trite: he's promising to remain devoted despite the complications of life on the road with his wife, a fellow musician ("The road cones blur like memories / Of the miles we shared between").  Childers delivers it with such conviction that it isn't corny even when he calls her "the goddess in my Days Inn pen," but earnest.

All This Love That I'm Givin' - Gwen McCrae

All This Love That I'm Givin' - Gwen McCrae
4:00

Melody Of Life, 1979
Written by Betty Wright, Jeremiah Burden, and Lynn Williams

Over a killer, disco-funk groove with lots of synths, McRae belts out a powerful, impassioned vocal, a plea to a lover who has turned away.  "Your love has taken control of my mind / Now you wanna just leave me behind."  It's a soulful, danceable slice of disco, but for me runs out its welcome at four minutes, with much of that time taken up with the title repeated ad nauseam.  Perfect for moving your hips on the dance floor while coked to the gills, however, I would suppose.