Our long-running collaboration with singer and songwriter Ana Egge continues, and this was an extra special project, because it involved her adaptation of a song by a real fave of ours, Ted Hawkins. Ana came across this song and “earlier that same week I’d spoken a few times with someone very close to me who’d fallen off the wagon. So this was my mindset as I listened. The word ‘sick’ felt like it was referring to alcoholism and I desperately wanted the lyrics to shift and ask the listener honestly, ‘what do you want from the liquor store?’ What do you really want? You’re not going to find it at the liquor store. All you’re going to find in the bottle is the bottom of the bottle. I began rewriting the chorus and the last verse to say what I needed to hear. With permission from the publishers, and hopefully (I pray), a nod of approval from the spirit of the great Ted Hawkins, this is my new, adapted version of ‘Sorry You’re Sick.'”