“Whiskey Lullaby” is a haunting country ballad recorded by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, released in 2004 on Paisley’s album Mud on the Tires. Written by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall, the song tells a tragic, two-part story of a man and woman whose love is destroyed by infidelity and regret. Overcome with heartbreak, the man drinks himself to death, and the woman, wracked with guilt, eventually follows the same fate, with whiskey serving as the poetic and literal instrument of their demise. I