NASHVILLE SONGWRITER II (ePub)

As American Songwriter Magazine declared, "this isn’t an expose, but a real account of what songwriters go through in their struggles to get in, and stay in, the game," and NASVILLE SONGWRITER II: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits," 300 # 1s from its biggest stars, including Tim McGraw, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Florida/Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, Lady Antebellum, Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, The Band Perry, and on and on!This first-of-its-kind book is truly is definitive in its exclusive, chapter-length interviews with 35 of Country Music's biggest songwriters, including superstars like Hillary Lindsey, Shane McAnally, Rhett Akins, Lori McKenna, Matraca Berg, Scotty Emerick, Chris Tompkins, Josh Kear, Luke Laird, Liz Rose, Chris DeStefano, Tia Sillers, Rodney Clawson, Natalie Hemby, Ben Hayslip, Josh Osborne, Ross Copperman, Tom Douglas, Cole Swindell, Marla Cannon-Goodman, Zach Crowell, Thom Schuyler, Whitey Shafer, Tim Nichols, Nicolle Galyon, Byron Hill, JT Harding, James Otto, Jimmy Robbins, Chris Wallin, Jesse Frasure, Big Smo, Ashley Gorley, Dallas Davidson, and John Rich. Sharing not only the stories behind their biggest hit songs, but equally as riveting, the real life back-stories of the songwriters’ themselves, from the first time they picked up a guitar and wrote their first songs as kids to their unique stories of struggle and survival getting to Nashville and eventually the top of the charts, NASHVILLE SONGWRITER in the same read is packed with loads of advice for young aspiring songwriters looking to follow in the same footsteps. Excerpts from Book:Josh Kear sharing his memory of writing of Luke Bryan’s # 1 “Most People Are Good” – “That was a song I needed… The song is really just a laundry list of our most basic beliefs hopefully mixed with a bit of humor and deep honesty about where the three of us were that day. The hardest part was really trying to figure out the most common ground between the three of us and whether we felt those ideas represented something that a lot of people could also agree with. So much of the country seemed to be divided at the time, we were looking for something that would serve the opposite purpose.”Hillary Lindsey reminiscing the writing of Carrie Underwood’s breakout # 1 “Jesus Take the Wheel” – “It’s weird when you write songs like that, that song in particular too, and there’s a handful of them where you don’t really know how they were written when it’s over, it’s like “Wait a minute, did we do that?”, because it seems so powerful, and I really think its God, I think we’re just vessels – all of us are, whether we write music or we don’t.”Shane McAnally recounting the writing Sam Hunt’s record-setting 34 weeks at #1 “Body Like a Back Road” – “The writing of that song went on for a really long time. My memory of it the first time is being over at Zach Crowell’s place, he lived in East Nashville at the time, and Sam came in and we just talked and threw around things. He told us about this title, ‘Body Like a Back Road,’ and we all lit up! Just the title, so we started Googling first to make sure it hadn’t been recorded already because it sounded like it would have been, and it wasn’t, so we proceeded to write every cliché of comparing a girl to a road that we could possibly think of.”