{"product_id":"9781940363172","title":"Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music's Greatest Hits","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou’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? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNashville Songwriter\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWillie Nelson’s “Always on My Mind”\u003cbr\u003eTim McGraw’s “Live Like You Were Dying,” “Southern Voice,” and “Real Good Man”\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Jones’s “Tennessee Whiskey”\u003cbr\u003eCarrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” and “Cowboy Casanova”\u003cbr\u003eBrooks \u0026amp; Dunn’s “Ain’t Nothing ’Bout You”\u003cbr\u003eLady Antebellum’s “We Owned the Night” and “Just a Kiss”\u003cbr\u003eBrad Paisley’s “Mud on the Tires,” “We Danced,” and “I’m Still a Guy”\u003cbr\u003eLuke Bryan’s “Play It Again,” “Crash My Party,” and “That’s My Kind of Night”\u003cbr\u003eThe Oak Ridge Boys’s “American Made”\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Strait’s “Ocean Front Property” and “The Best Day,”\u003cbr\u003eRascal Flatts’s “Fast Cars and Freedom,” and “Take Me There”\u003cbr\u003eKenny Chesney’s “Living in Fast Forward” and “When the Sun Goes Down”\u003cbr\u003eRicochet’s “Daddy’s Money”\u003cbr\u003eMontgomery Gentry’s “If You Ever Stop Loving Me”\u003cbr\u003eThe Crickets’s “I Fought the Law”\u003cbr\u003eTom T. Hall’s “A Week in a County Jail” and “That Song Is Driving Me Crazy”\u003cbr\u003eTrace Adkins’s “You’re Gonna Miss This”\u003cbr\u003eDavid Lee Murphy’s “Dust on the Bottle”\u003cbr\u003eJason Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor” and “Fly Over States”\u003cbr\u003eAnd many more top country hits over the past 40 years!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BenBella Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048103166192,"sku":"9781940363172","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940363172_p0.jpg?v=1763667964","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940363172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}