Produced by Billy Sherrill; written by David Allen Coe
Columbia 45991 1974 Billboard # 46
In our current pop environment, it's not uncommon to hear teen performers embracing topics that used to be considered more appropriate for their elders. We ask middle school students to speak about sex and high school students to contemplate murder, but how about asking a fifteen-year-old to sing about a love until death in old age? Yes, in "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" Gerry Goffin and Carole King asked the Shirelles to contemplate this possibility in the abstract, but fourteen years later David Allan Coe makes it all devastatingly concrete. Older artists have covered this song, but they don't break your heart with it the way that Tucker does. And this is why we have country music: because in country, everyone is unspeakably old, just as in rock and roll, everyone is improbably young.
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