Another country-music morality tale

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. If you want to be doubly humiliated, hitch your plans for the future to a faithless woman.

That morality-tale fate is achingly articulated in country-music singer-songwriter Hunter Thomas Mounce’s latest single, “What She Forgot,” which premieres Feb. 24 on streaming services. To pre-save the song, click here.

The singing fireman and Music Row

During idle moments at the firehouse, as I listened to Hunter Mounce strum his acoustic guitar and sing in that true-as-the-soil country voice, I only half-joked that someday country superstar Kenny Chesney would be Hunter’s opening act.

The pandemic has effectively shut down live music for Chesney and nearly everyone else. But the “no shirt, no shoes, no problem” guy should not rest on his laurels. When things return to “normal” -- whatever the hell that’s going to look like -- Chesney will feel Hunter breathing down his neck.