Set 'Em Up Joe - Jamey Johnson - MP3 instrumental karaoke

For the follow-up to his 2008 album That Lonesome Song, Alabama-born country songwriter Jamey Johnson aimed big with a 25-track collection of rough-hewn vignettes called The Guitar Song. "Set 'Em Up Joe" is the fourth track on the 2010 double album that tips its hats to his influences from the off, drawing on a familiar line-up of country stars. "They got a vintage Victrola 1951 / Full of my favorite records that I grew up on / They got ol' Hank and Lefty and there's B24," he sings in the first verse. This most meta of country classics was originally written by Vern Gosdin alongside Dean Dillon, Buddy Cannon and Hank Cochran as a tribute to another country legend, the late "Texas Troubadour" Ernest Tubb. Elsewhere on the double album, Jamey Johnson deals in heartache and loneliness via "That's How I Don't Love You Anymore" and channels Merle Haggard on "Even the Skies Are Blue".