The singer vs. the song

As I convert my old audiocassettes to mp3s, I'm in the Gs. Hence, today I listened to Vince Gill's 1992 album I Still Believe in You, which includes one of the all-time great anti-cheatin' songs, "Under These Conditions." In it, two people in difficult marriages, though strongly attracted to one another, decide not to have an affair because of their existing commitments and obligations to their children. Later, of course, Vince Gill divorced his wife and subsequently married Amy Grant, the Christian recording artist who had divorced her first husband. Both Gill and Grant have children from their first marriages.

As is too often the case with country music, sometimes the song is better than the singer.