It's fine to celebrate the everyday, the ordinary pleasures of life; Neil Young has done it from time to time over the years, and Drew Nelson's recent debut album was an exemplar of what can be done in this way. It's too easy, though, to fall the wrong side of the line and end up writing a bunch of songs that are just dull and possibly, as in this case, sentimental and cliche - ridden.
Still, somewhere, anywhere, Texas probably,
"(they) might keep some forgotten soul/ In some honkytonk company for a while"
(Track 4 ; Everybody's World Ain't Sweet Red Wine)
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