Is I Remember Everything by Zach Bryan a cover?

Zachary Lane Bryan is an American country music singer-songwriter from Oologah, Oklahoma. His major-label debut album American Heartbreak entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at number five.

Is I Remember Everything by Zach Bryan a cover?

Bryan first teased “I Remember Everything” earlier this summer, releasing a snippet of the song to fans. When he announced the tracklisting to Zach Bryan earlier this month, he clarified that “I Remember Everything” was an original, and not, as some had wondered, a cover of John Prine’s posthumous ballad.

One of the immediate highlights from Zach Bryan‘s brand-new self-titled album is “I Remember Everything,” a somber duet with Kacey Musgraves.

The aching, simmering ballad recounts a past summer beach romance in an ’88 Ford, with a verse each from the perspective of the two past lovers. “A cold shoulder at closing time/You were begging me to stay ’til the sun rose,” Bryan, and then, later, Musgraves, sings as the two vocalists alternate leads on each subsequent chorus. “Strange words come on out/of a grown man’s mouth when his mind’s broke” is one memorable line.