Love Your Love the Most

Love Your Love the Most

So I figured it was about time for another contemporary country hit. And try as I might, I just can’t identify with some of the songs that are topping the charts out there. I did like this one, though, despite it being mostly just another list of things that materially reinforce the modern “country” archetype. The redeeming factor in this song is the chorus-catch, when the singer discounts the importance of all the material things when they’re compared to his partner’s love.

Nothing is too fancy in the chord changes or the singing of this song; it’s pretty straight-forward, played in G with a capo on the third fret. Its singalongability (ha) is probably a favorable factor in its popularity, and Eric Church, who co-wrote the song with Michael Heeney ^[1], sings it spot-on with inconsistencies in all the right places that give the radio recording a nice, natural cadence.

Personally, I identified with “loving” only about half of the things listed in the song, but, as a happy newlywed, I definitely am on board with the main theme and the chorus. Maybe that’s why this one spoke to me this time.