Songs about friendship range from treacle-y to sublime, and “Famous Friends” by Country’s Chris Young with Kane Brown, an upbeat ode to when these guys weren’t big-time Nashville recording artists, but were just one of the local high-school crowd, with a regular life and regular friends, with whom they shared youth and memories, isn’t treacly or sublime, rather, it’s happy! We get happy — for them and their happy memories, and just happy in general…it’s that kind of song…
The emotionally pitch perfect open in Randy Travis’s “Heroes & Friends” (1991) leans toward the sublime, while Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” is in a category all by itself!
Friendship is celebrated in all musical formats and genres, from The Beatles “With A Little Help From My Friends” to Gladys Knight’s “Friendship Train” and Dionne Warwick’s “That’s What Friends Are For.”