"Why is that man's wife so upset he was driving in the rain?" I asked about Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls."
But perhaps the song I was most fascinated with was "That's the Night When the Lights Went Out in Georgia."
When Reba McEntire covered the song—originally sung by Vicki Lawrence—I remember being captivated by the story, especially the video that accompanied it. Recently, viral singer Briley King rerecorded the track, and the tune is rising in popularity once more. As a result, McEntire reminisced about her own cover of the 1972 hit and shared a video of herself singing it on Lawrence's talk show, describing it as a full-circle moment.
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Fans were thankful for the reminder, reveling in that special magic '90s country carried.
"One of my favorite songs," added another. "I saw Vicki sing this live—the story behind it is so good. Reba, you could sing a phonebook and I’d listen."
McEntire's version of the song reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, while Lawrence's version hit No. 1 upon its debut in 1972.
The History Behind "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"
The song is anything but lighthearted. Written by Bobby Russell, it was allegedly turned down by Cher before Russell’s wife, Vicki Lawrence, agreed to record it, according to Country Living.
While fictional, the lyrics reference real places—Andy Wolloe, Webb's Bar, and Candletop—but the situation itself is fabricated.
“If you listen to the lyrics from top to bottom—just the storytelling of the classic Southern family drama, of an affair, a murder that was covered up by a little sister, and her brother takes the fall for her—it is very similar to the scandal that was happening in the Murdaugh family. So, it all kind of stems from Murdaugh drama.”
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