Whiskey And You

Album: Charleston, SC 1966 (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • Rucker sings in this song about the way that both whiskey and one's lover can stir up similar feelings. He told Billboard magazine this traditional Country cut, which he penned with the album's producer Frank Rogers, is as close to Merle Haggard and George Jones as he's ever got.

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