Castles in the Sand would be a huge comeback for Coe, peaking at #8 on the country albums chart, his highest showing since Once Upon a Rhyme hit the same mark eight years earlier.

The ballad tells the first-person story of a hitchhiker's encounter with the ghost of Hank Williams in a ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Nashville, Tennessee.

Castles in the Sand contains two more duets: “Fool Inside of Me” with Diane Sherrill and the romantic “Don’t Be a Stranger with Eve Shapiro, which is augmented with a saxophone.

One of the most impressive songs Coe ever wrote is “Missin’ the Kid,” which finds a father lamenting the loss of his daughter, who now lives with his estranged ex-wife.

Over a languid beat and using simple language, Coe delivers a stunning vocal that expresses with weary resignation the bitterness, guilt, and extreme sadness that comes with a broken family.