If it’s Friday, it means a new Sara Bug song has been unleashed into the wild. “Send Me an Angel,” the fourth single from her forthcoming album, Into the Blue, harkens back to the days when heartache, heartbreak and prayers were pressed onto seven-inch platters that, in turn, were shopped to the era’s streaming media services, aka the jukeboxes found in bars, diners, and truck stops.
The lament is as old as time itself—or, at least, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It’s centered on love, regret and yearning for more than what—and who—she has: “I got me a liar, a cheater, a fighter, a leaver/Why would you do me like that God?/Send me an angel/A man who’s got my back/Even when I’m drifting way off track/A man who’s faithful/When he’s gone I ain’t worried where he’s at/And he comes home early I need a man like that.” She’s Kitty Wells, Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton rolled into one, just about, sharing a working woman’s reality in an age accented by too many faux representations of the same.
The Old Grey Cat 