“My favorite moment, the one that resonates the most and encapsulates the album most completely, comes near the end of “Lord, I’m Discouraged,” this album’s most sweeping tears-in-beer power-ballad, the one about knowing you can’t help this girl but knowing just as well that you’re powerless to let her go. On the breakdown: “This guy from the North Side comes down to visit / His visits, they only take five or six minutes.” Cue blazing guitar solo. There’s magic in that moment, but there’s also a bottomless well of pain, and it knocks me dead every time.”