Further Thoughts About the "Perfect Country Song"

Just about a month ago (25 May), i did "*a post with an MP3 of The Stars Remind Me of You*":http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog_post/77500, by *Cowboy Mouth*, and i said that at 1:42 for two verses, choeus, bridge and guitar solo, it was quite possibly the perfect country song - sort of the Platonic Ideal of "tear in my beer" lonesome lowdown country blues.Today, reading a book co-authored by my brother (did i mention that my kid brother is David Weber, NYTimes bestselling Sceince-fiction author?), i suddenly had a thought.Back in the Fifties, maybe into the Sixties, there was a guy named Ken Purdy. He wrote about cars.Well, he wrote about cars like we write about music. Only better.And, thinking about how that song has verything it needs and not one bit more, i remembered Purdy's definition of the term "sports car":A "sports car", he said, is a car that has nothing on it that isn't intended to make it go faster.And The Stars Remind Me of You doesn't have one damned extra note or word - just exactly what it needs to go right into your head and stick there.