Handle on You - Parker McCollum - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Parker McCollum goes looking for comfort in the bottom of a bottle as he pours a painful breakup into song in this 2022 single co-written with Monty Criswell ("Five More Minutes," "I Saw God Today," "Like Jesus Does") which followed his 2021 album Gold Chain Cowboy for MCA Nashville. "Tennessee and Kentucky 'cause you ain't here to love me / I drink now that there's nothing to lose," he sings in the whiskey-soaked first chorus, before confessing: "I've been fighting with your memory, I hate the way it hits me / I wake up every day, black and blue / After all this back and forth, a fifth won't do / Yeah, I finally got a handle, finally got a handle on you." With traditional-sounding steel guitar touches from producer Jon Randall, "Handle on You" – which went to number 31 on the US Hot Country Songs chart – finds the neotradtionalist Parker McCollum in classic country mode for an ever-relatable heartbreaker.