Nashville Songwriters with Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran introduces a look at Music City songwriters. Nashville is the country songwriting capital, home to thousands of the globe’s most successful commercial songwriters.
Ed Sheeran - a long-time fan and supporter of country music - introduces this special look at the work of Music City songwriters. Nashville is the country songwriting capital, home to thousands of the globe’s most successful commercial songwriters and the ‘must visit’ destination for countless more wanting their own work sprinkled with some of the city's fairy dust. Nashville is a song factory, utilising an almost industrial level of organisation to ensure that hits are generated on a daily basis every day of the year.
Songwriters work around the clock to get the job done... famously, Dolly Parton wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same afternoon - the products of a Nashville writing session. But it's not just country music - all genres are covered by Nashville-based songwriters and collaborators, from Pixie Lott, Lady Gaga and One Direction to Peter Frampton, Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey.
This hour-long programme introduces listeners to that world, showing how the machine works and talking to songwriters and artists to uncover the secrets of the only hit factory in the world that is a whole town. Contributors include Keith Urban, Lori McKenna, Brad Paisley, Jaren Johnston of the Cadillac Three and more whose names you may not know but whose songs you definitely will!
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Music Played
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The Allman Brothers Band
Jessica ('Top Gear' Theme Tune)
- Polydor.
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Taylor Swift
Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran)
- Red.
- Virgin.
- 1.
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Keith Urban & P!nk
One Too Many
- The Speed Of Now Pt. 1.
- Hit Red Records.
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Keith Urban
I Told You So
- Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing.
- Capitol Nashville.
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One Direction
They Don't Know About Us
- Take Me ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ.
- Syco/Columbia.
- 12.
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Avicii
Wake Me Up
- Now That's What I Call Music! 86 (Various Artists).
- Now.
- 1.
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Tebey
Wake Me Up (Country Show exclusive)
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Tim McGraw
Humble and Kind
- Damn Country Music.
- Big Machine.
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Little Big Town
Girl Crush
- Pain Killer.
- Capital Records Nashville.
- 5.
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Carrie Underwood
Cry Pretty
- Cry Pretty.
- Capitol Nashville.
- 1.
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The Cadillac Three
American Slang - Radio 2 Session - 16/11/2017
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Jaren Johnston & Tim McGraw
Meanwhile Back At Mama's (work tape/studio montage) (feat. Faith Hill)
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Labrinth
Jealous
- Now That's What I Call Music! 90 (Various Artists).
- Now.
Broadcast
- Sat 4 Dec 2021 21:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2