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Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits

Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits

Brown, Jake

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsCountry & FolkMusic Reference

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1940363179
ISBN13: 9781940363172
Publisher: Benbella Books
Published: Sep 9 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
You've heard them on the radio, listened to them on repeat for days, and sang along at the top of your lungs--but have you ever wondered about the real stories behind all your favorite country songs?

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 Casanova

Brooks & Dunn's Ain't Nothing '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 Play It Again, Crash My Party, and That's My Kind of Night

The Oak Ridge Boys's American Made

George Strait's Ocean Front Property and The Best Day,

Rascal Flatts's Fast Cars and Freedom, 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 Loving Me

The Crickets's I Fought the Law

Tom T. Hall's A Week in a County Jail and That Song Is Driving Me Crazy

Trace Adkins's 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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