“Jackson Mississippi” by Kid Rock

"Jackson, Mississippi" is a cut from Kid Rock's self-titled 2003 album, but it goes back much further: he first put it down as a demo in 1995 for his album Early Morning Stoned Pimp. It's a song about a man sinking into addiction and watching it tear at his relationship, and Kid Rock wrote it alone. Bob Eubling, the original drummer in his Twisted Brown Trucker band and an Eminem producer, plays drums on it.

Atlantic sent it out in January 2004 as a double-sided single with "Cold and Empty", and it rose to 14 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The song wouldn't stay put: a live take landed on the Best Buy edition of 2007's Rock N Roll Jesus, and in 2008 he rewrote it, same musical frame, as "Warrior" for the National Guard, with a video starring Dale Earnhardt Jr. that played in movie theaters that summer.

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