It’s how the protagonist carries this sad, but accepting, and almost envious sentiment as the restless cowgirl goes slipping through his hands like the dry dirt of a parched pasture, admiring her enough to not want to burden her down, even if this conclusion comes with a sincere feeling of heartache and longing. The soul in the song is not just born through the unique role reversal. Juxtaposing the stereotypical perspective of the man always being the one who can’t let his heartstrings tie him down as he gallops off into the sunset like the picturesque conclusion of a Western movie, “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” places the woman as the one who needs to let her wild horses run free.ĭissimilar to the often sappy and transparent odes to women that are permeating popular music at the moment with their odoriferous platitudes that are nothing more than pandering to popular sentiment as opposed to saying something truly important or telling a story, “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” offers something for both men and women to find affinity with. “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” was written by Brandon Kinney, along with semi-retired performer Josh Thompson, who continues to prove he’s one of the hottest hands in quality country music songwriting. Pardi has been promising the new record out September 27th will be even more twangy than its predecessors, and so far has words have rung true, and so have the songs released as precursors. Jon Pardi continues to prove himself as one of the most staunch traditionalists in the country mainstream, and though you can be assured that his upcoming record Heartache Medication will have a handful of songs that will pander to radio play, his latest release from the album “Ain’t Always The Cowboy” will not be one of them.
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