![]() ![]() 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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