It's no secret that I deeply love traditional country music, and "The Bakersfield sound" may well be my all time favorite style of it. In that vein, it came to me that I've never done a Wynn Stewart song, and I needed to correct that badly. Stewart was a huge influence on the Bakersfield sound, and was considered a "singers singer". The other singers pretty much all thought he was the best. He had some hits, but was never a superstar. He was a different cat, had personal problems, and died fairly young, but man could he sing a country song. Buck Owens did the most famous version of this song, and Rodney Crowell took this one to #1 in the country charts in the late 80's, but I think Wynn Stewart's version was the best one. BTW, Merle Haggard played bass in Stewart's band in Vegas in the early 60's, and Wynn Stewart gave Haggard the tune "Sing a sad song", which was Merle Haggard's debut single.