Jones, who at the time of the recording was finally getting sober after a career-long bender, adds authenticity to the story of a man who is “drunk, totally drained, on the verge of going crazy,” and “on the edge of insane.” Coe would join Jones onstage at the inaugural Farm Aid that year, taking a chorus with Jones on his hit "Tennessee Whiskey," which Coe recorded first in 1981.