An American Country Singer-Songwriter Recorded, Produced and Played Almost Every Part of His New Single
Drinking About You opens way out in the corn rows past the city limit sign. Two people sit on a tailgate, watching the time fly. Jimi Young, a country singer-songwriter from DeWitt, Michigan, in the United States, released the single on 12 October 2026. Its chorus turns thinking into drinking, and that small change carries the whole confession.
Jimi Young’s Drinking About You sits in our Country, Bluegrass, Americana playlist below, and Jimi Young’s artist profile collects all our coverage. The single came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Put it on there first, then read on for who it is written for.
Drinking About You by Jimi Young Is for Listeners Who Know the Bottle Is Not the Problem
The story is simple and familiar. They had it all on that tailgate. Then the singer made a move and lost the only thing he ever needed. He traded his forever girl for a temporary thing, and the whiskey shots that followed were just another place to hide. He even calls the drink a liquid doctor that numbs the symptoms without touching what is really wrong.
Then the bridge changes the song. This bottle ain’t the reason I’m sitting here alone, he sings, because he broke the only heart that ever felt like home. Many drinking songs blame the glass. This one refuses to. So its first listeners are anyone who has reached for an excuse and knew, deep down, that the mistake was theirs.
The second audience is anyone who likes modern country with a big chorus and small-town pictures. Here those are the corn rows, the city limit sign and the tailgate. Fans of the Jason Aldean sound are the listeners he has in mind. The third audience is people who want a song with a life behind it. Young is a retired State Police detective who has finished 32 Ironman races. He brings that same steadiness to a song about getting it wrong.
Early Response Puts the Single at the Top of Jimi Young’s Spotify Page
The early numbers are warm. Drinking About You sits first in the Popular list on his Spotify page, with 33,821 plays in less than four weeks. That leaves it just 138 plays behind I Wrote for You, the most played of his five most popular songs. He also has 24,125 monthly listeners, and he has pinned the single as his artist pick.
Writers have started to notice too. Foxfire Magazine wrote about the single on 3 November, pointing to the way it joins classic country storytelling to today’s production. Meanwhile his Instagram has 139 followers, so the song is travelling mainly through Spotify.
The Community Around Drinking About You Starts With One Man in Jimi Young’s Studio
At the centre of the record there is mostly one person. Jimi Young, credited as James Young, wrote the song, then recorded and produced it himself. He plays the acoustic, electric, lead and rhythm guitar, the bass and the organ. He also sings the lead and the backing vocals, and designed the cover art.
That detail changes how the chorus sounds. When the backing voice answers thinking about you and then drinking about you, it is Young answering himself.
The song also fits a catalogue his listeners already know. It follows his project Nashville Twist, and earlier songs such as She Carried Me and Common Man. One older title, I Hope You’re Thinking About Me Tonight, waits for someone else to think of him. On the new single, he is the one who should be thinking.
Jason Aldean, Midland and the Country Drinking Song
Country fans know both halves of this song well. Jason Aldean turned back-road memories into one of the genre’s biggest records with Dirt Road Anthem. Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert wrote that single, which came from his 2010 album My Kinda Party. It became the best-selling digital song in the United States by a male country solo artist, with more than four million sold. Drinking About You starts in the same kind of remembered place.
Midland built a whole hook on a turn of phrase with Drinkin’ Problem, their 2017 debut single. They wrote it with Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally, and it was later certified six times platinum. In that song the problem is heartbreak, not the drink. Young takes the same idea one step further, and puts the blame on the man holding the glass.
The single suits listeners in Michigan and well beyond it, and anyone building a country playlist that needs a heartbreak song with a clear conscience.
Start at the tailgate in the first verse, then stay for the bridge, where he finally stops blaming the bottle.
From the GetMusic.News curator team: “We put Drinking About You in our country playlist for the chorus, where thinking and drinking trade places. It is a heartbreak song that owns its mistake, and that honesty is what stayed with us.”
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