The Good Stuff

Infobox Single
Name = The Good Stuff


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Artist = Kenny Chesney
from Album = No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
Released = 2002
Format = CD single
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Genre = Country
Length = 3:20
Label = BNA
Writer = Craig Wiseman
Jim Collins
Producer = Buddy Cannon
Norro Wilson
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Last single = "Young"
(2002)
This single = "The Good Stuff"
(2002)
Next single = "A Lot of Things Different"
(2002)
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"The Good Stuff" is a single, released in 2002, by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was the third single from his 2002 album "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems".

The song was Chesney's fifth Number One single on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. [cite web |url=http://www.ascap.com/playback/2004/winter/countryaward.html |title=ASCAP Celebrates 41st Annual Country Music Awards |accessdate=2007-07-30 |format=html |work=ASCAP.com] At the time, it was also his longest-lasting Number One, having spent a total of seven weeks at the top of the charts (a record since tied by his 2003 single "There Goes My Life"). It was also named as the Number One country music single of 2002 according to "Billboard", and it reached Number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Content

"The Good Stuff" is a mid-tempo based on different meanings of the phrase "the good stuff". In the first verse, the narrator explains that he has just had a fight with his wife, so he goes to a bar. Seeing only the bartender in the bar, he then asks for "the good stuff" (i.e., a good alcoholic beverage). The bartender then explains that the "good stuff", which cannot be found at the bar, is the love between a man and woman, and the memories that they make together, such as "dropping the ring in the spaghetti plate / 'Cause your hands are shaking so much".

In the second verse, the narrator and the bartender begin conversing, when the narrator notices a picture on the bar. The bartender explains that the picture is of a former lover who died of cancer. He also says that for several years after her death, he began drinking regularly, sobering up only after realizing that the memories of the love that they shared are "the one thing stronger than the whiskey".

The bartender, in the song's bridge, then suggests that the male go home and apologize to his wife: "When you get home, she'll start to cry / When she says 'I'm sorry', say 'so am I' / Look into those eyes so deep in love / And drink it up / 'Cause that's the good stuff".

References

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before = "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)"
by Toby Keith
title = Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number one single
years = July 27-September 7, 2002
after = "Unbroken"
by Tim McGrawsuccession box
before = "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You"
by Brooks & Dunn
title = Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single of the year
years = 2002
after = "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett