Have

Can you be happy with what you have?

This is the question that Kelsea Ballerini seems to ask us in her song, What I Have.

We can sometimes dismiss country songs as being overly simplistic. But as Harlan Howard astutely said back in the 1950’s, it represents “three chords and the truth.”

In Ballerini’s song, she challenges the idea of “having” by making accessible more complicated concepts and phrases.…