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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!

The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles’ success in the late Seventies.‘Hotel California’ is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth account of the LA Canyons scene between 1967 and 1976.Hoskyn's history of this vital period in the development of today's great musical influences spans the rise of Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, The Eagles, James Taylor and Jackson Browne, and focuses on the brilliance and determination of David Geffen, the man who linked them all.Covering genius, drug-crazed disintegration, and the myriad relationships between these artists and the songs that issued from them, and drawing on extensive interviews with countless stars, singers, writers, managers, executives and scenesters, ‘Hotel California’ is a pop-culture classic.

An enticing reunion…Renowned neurosurgeon Vivian Maguire knows everything there is to know about the human brain. But returning to Nashville—and the man she left behind seven years ago—it’s her heart which suddenly occupies her every thought.Dr Reece Castle has made a name for himself as a premier neurosurgeon to the stars yet Vivian’s return brings him crashing back to reality. Because every glance and unwitting touch tempts him to risk his heart for another chance with the one that got away…

The country star’s biggest risk…When his best friend vows to become a single mum, Tommy Talbot is torn. Country music’s baddest bachelor wants to help Sophie Cardinale—as long as commitment isn’t in the cards. But crossing the line from friends to lovers is a dangerous game…