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Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits
Jake Brown
BenBella Books
Trade Paperback

From the publisher's website:

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's “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and “A Week in the County Jail”
• 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! American