Jimi Young Found Drinking About You on a Golf Course and Played Most of It Himself
Jimi Young Found Drinking About You on a Golf Course and Played Most of It Himself
An American Country Single From a Retired Police Detective with 32 Ironman Races Behind Him
Jimi Young released Drinking About You on 12 October 2026, an upbeat, three-minute country single about a break-up. The chorus turns on two letters. He should be thinking about the one he lost, and he is drinking about them instead. It is the latest step for a songwriter who began releasing music in 2023. Before that, he had a career as a State Police detective.
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Before the singles, there was the police work and the racing. Young is a singer-songwriter from DeWitt, Michigan, in the United States. He has also finished 32 Ironman races, each a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride and a full marathon.
From a 2023 Debut to She Carried Me, the Singles That Led to Drinking About You
His first single, You Take My Breath Away, came out in January 2023. A Better Day and Nightmare followed that year. In September 2024 came Hearbeat and I Wish She Was Me (Live from Urban Beat). It is still the only live recording in his catalogue.
In February 2025 he put out The Classics, a nine-track album. Two more singles, Common Man and I Never Want to Say Goodbye, arrived before the month was out. Then She Carried Me opened 2026. Indie Boulevard heard it as a song of thanks to the people who hold us up in hard times. He sings it with restraint while the arrangement grows around the voice.
By his own account, songwriting sits at the centre of what he does. He loves performing. Still, he cares just as much about building a song as about bringing it to life in the studio.
Pedal Steel and Fiddle From a Branson Session Player on Jimi Young’s Drinking About You
On the new single, Young wrote the song, recorded and produced it, and sang the lead and the backing vocals. He also played the acoustic, electric and bass guitars and the organ. It is also on Apple Music.
Bruce Hoffman joined him for the pedal steel and the fiddle. Hoffman is a session player from Branson, Missouri. Hoffman’s credits include Mel Tillis, the Grand Ole Opry and A Prairie Home Companion. Since 2001 Hoffman has also run a recording studio, with work in national advertising and the theme song of the SyFy series Haven.
According to Radio Castor, the idea came to Young on a golf course. The song is about regret after a break-up. It opens past the city limits, in the corn rows, with two people on a tailgate watching time go by. Then he makes a wrong move and loses the one thing he needed. Every night after is another lesson, with the bridges he built burning behind him. In the chorus he answers his own line, a backing vocal echoing each thinking about you.
Corn Rows, a Tailgate and a Cheerful Tune Over a Sad Story in Country Tradition
Small-town pictures like that are some of country’s oldest material. Alan Jackson built Chattahoochee around growing up beside a Georgia river in 1993. It won the CMA awards for Single of the Year and Song of the Year. Young’s corn rows and tailgate are a Michigan version of the same picture.
Musically, it is a guitar-led country song with a little red dirt in it. The pedal steel and fiddle pull it back towards older country.
Country has always set heartbreak to a cheerful tune. Luke Combs did it with Beer Never Broke My Heart, the first single from his second album in 2019. Drinking About You belongs to that line, a sad story with a chorus you can sing in the car.
From the MusicDrops.News curator team: “In a month, Drinking About You became Jimi Young’s most played song on Spotify. Hear that chorus once and you will see why.”
After Drinking About You, Jimi Young Wants More Co-Writes and a Bigger Live Audience
The next release has not been announced. Young is looking for chances to write and co-write with country artists at every level, as Indie Boulevard reported in September. He also wants to play to more people live.
His SoundCloud page says the same in his own words. He has hundreds of songs and writes new ones almost every week. One day he hopes to hear one on a major artist’s album, through publishing and A&R.
That fits the schedule he has kept. Drinking About You is his fourth release of 2026, about three months after the last.
So Drinking About You is out now. Start with the chorus, and those two letters will do the rest.
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