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!
