To stay in the game you have to adapt and keep abreast of your musical surroundings. But in the same breath I will certainly tell you that I work just as hard if not harder than I ever have in my life. I'm not saying it's gonna be straight traditional country music but I will say the day is coming when the listener is going to want a more story laden lyric.Ĭountry music has changed a lot too – how has it changed your approach to songwriting? I do however think that in the coming months you're gonna see songs getting back to their roots a little more. It's a new generation of listener and these artists are playing to their generation. I understand why you hear what you do on the radio today. I think the country music listener is a lot younger for one, yet we've still retained the purists as well. When you go back and listen to an old Jimmy Rogers song and listen to what Florida Georgia line is doing today it's pretty obvious it's a whole new ballgame now. I think a better word for what it has done is evolved. You’ve been a songwriter in Nashville since the 70s – how have you seen the industry change? I wouldn't be the writer I am today without those compadres. So when I look back on my career I always see their faces too. Not only would he help me with the lines, but would tell me why we wrote the line the way we did. I guess the one person who taught me more about writing a great song was Hank Cochran. In the beginning I wrote a lot by myself but when I started co-writing it just seemed to me to be a lot more fun. It's not just my name on a lot of those songs it's theirs, too. I’ve been very blessed to have written with so many other great songwriters Frank Dycus, Scotty Emerick, Hank Cochran, just to name a few.
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