All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down

Raul Malo and Al Anderson of NRBQ wrote it, and the Mavericks recorded it with the accordionist Flaco Jimenez as track five of Music for All Occasions, listed at 4:20 on Wikipedia and 3:48 in another catalog. It was released as a single on January 8, 1996, with "Volver, Volver" on the B-side. It entered the Hot Country Singles chart at 66 for the week of January 20, 1996 and peaked at 13, the band's highest entry there and Jimenez's only one, and reached 15 in Canada. Billboard's obituary of Malo calls it their highest-charting single, and Malo received a BMI songwriting award for it. Gerry Wenner directed the video, filmed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and premiered in January 1996.

It was nominated at the 1997 Grammys for best country performance by a duo or group with vocal, and Rolling Stone ranks it 159th among the 200 greatest country songs. It was still the closing encore on the band's 2026 tour; at the Carolina Theatre in Durham on July 31, 2026 it was the last song after the encore opener "All Night Long". We found no covers, samples or word from Malo on the lyrics, and do not know which version our upload carries.