This here is a perfect rock ‘n roll song. There’s no one perfect rock ‘n roll song, because rock ‘n roll is too amorphous and ubiquitous that to nail down the perfect rock ‘n roll song — with the definite article — inspires too much argument and sub-argument and sub-sub-argument as to be futile. J. Roddy Walston & the Business’ “Hard Times” is merely a perfect rock ‘n roll song, and I can’t stop listening to it.
Further still, this is Tennessee rock. This is the place that produced Lucero and Ben Nichols, the best purveyors of country rock music this side of Vince Gill or Dwight Yoakam.