Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits
Fans of American country music love the personal, relatable stories artists share through their songs. For a country music enthusiast, singing along...
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Fans of American country music love the personal, relatable stories artists share through their songs. For a country music enthusiast, singing along with a favorite track is more than just jamming to a catchy tune � it’s a way of connecting with the singer’s journey.
Nashville Songwriter gives readers the first completely authorized collection of the true stories that inspired hits by the biggest multi-platinum country superstars of the last half-century � recounted by the songwriters themselves. Award-winning music biographer Jake Brown gives readers an unprecedented, intimate glimpse inside the world of country music songwriting.
Featuring exclusive commentary from country superstars and chapter-length interviews with today’s biggest hit-writers on Music Row, this book chronicles the stories behind smash hits such as:
Willie Nelson’s �Always on My Mind”
Tim McGraw’s �Live Like You Were Dying,” �Southern Voice,” and �Real Good Man”
George Jones’s �Tennessee Whiskey”
Carrie Underwood’s �Jesus Take the Wheel,” and �Cowboy Cassanova”
Brooks & Dunn’s �Ain’t Nothin’ Bout You”
Lady Antebellum’s �We Owned the Night” and �Just a Kiss”
Brad Paisley’s �Mud on the Tires,” �We Danced,” and �I’m Still a Guy”
Luke Bryan’s �Crash My Party” and �That’s My Kind of Night”
The Oak Ridge Boys’ �American Made”
George Strait’s �Fool Hearted Memory,” �Ocean Front Property,” and �The Best Day,”
Rascal Flatts’s �Fast Cars and Freedom,” �Why Wait,” and �Take Me There”
Kenny Chesney’s �Living in Fast Forward” and �When the Sun Goes Down”
Ricochet’s �Daddy’s Money”
Montgomery Gentry’s �If You Ever Stop Lovin’ Me”
The Crickets’ �I Fought the Law”
Tom T. Hall �Harper Valley P.T.A.” and �A Week in the County Jail”
Trace Adkins’s and �You’re Gonna Miss This”
David Lee Murphy’s �Dust on the Bottle”
Jason Aldean’s �Big Green Tractor” and �Fly Over States”
And many more top country hits over the past 40 years!
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- ISBN10:1940363179
- ISBN13:9781940363172
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