bar none

In 2018, when I ran for Senate, we had one of the highest levels of voter turnout in Texas history, bar none.

Among his hits: “Buy Dirt,” which was named song of the year by the Country Music Assn. in 2022; “Next Thing You Know,” which earned the same award from the Academy of Country Music in 2024; and his latest, “Bar None,” a clever drinking song in which he recounts “getting goner than your long-gone boots.”

“Bar None” was an outside song — Ben Johnson, Lydia Vaughan and Hunter Phelps wrote it.

“You and your memory, 1 / Me and this bar, none” — that’s genius.

With smoking levels continuing to fall, he now regards excess weight and obesity as the "major driver, bar none, of long-term multiple health conditions".