Nashville-based singer/songwriter who is signed to a publishing deal with Jonas Group Entertainment. She has written songs on four GRAMMY-nominated albums and has had her songs recorded by Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Ashley McBryde, Trent Tomlinson, Cody Johnson, and still even more. She also owns, host and books Nashville’s most popular writers showcase, the Music Row Freakshow. Next month she will head to Denmark to perform as part of the Nashville Nights International Songwriters Festival.
“We’re around some people that are kind of on the edge of music, but they aren’t in the creative and kind of new to the business, but, everything we said – and, people do this – everything we said, ‘That’s a song! You should write about that. That’s a song!’ And we’re like, ‘No it’s not.’ So that’s a funny thing too is, when people find out you’re a songwriter then they think everything everybody says should be a song.”
“The music business is a weird animal and to try to explain it to somebody is just, ya’ know, we get the whole, ‘Have you sold any songs?’ and it’s like, ‘We don’t exactly sell them’.”
“After college I made a gospel record – a Christian country record is what was the genre – and wrote that record and … moved back home… and started touring… I did that for a couple years.”
“He had kept in touch and said, ‘If you really want to do country music, you need to move to Nashville.’ And, he said, ‘I’ll help you,’ and so, I packed up the U-Haul and moved to Nashville.”
“I’d always thought it would be fun to move to Nashville, but I didn’t have the courage to, and then that situation kind of just sent me running and I’m so glad I did.”
“I still love to perform, and I love to sing. But, when you get up and close and personal to the artist lifestyle, it’s rough, man. For all you listeners out there thinking they’re sitting by their pool, checking their mailbox for money, that’s what songwriters do. Those artists are out there grinding.”
“Back in about 2011, Kevin Jonas, Sr., who is the Jonas Brothers’ dad… came to Nashville with an artist he was working with … and we have a mutual friend… and I was doing a writers’ night then… so I invited them to come that night and they did and I sat with Kevin and we visited and just kind of hit it off and then I went to California a few times and wrote with some of his artists out there… He’s always been in management and still is and now has formed a publishing company and so I was the first songwriter that he signed.”
“Publishers, like everybody else, they want songs that have action, that are gonna produce revenue, produce a buzz, momentum, whatever you want to call it.”
“That’s kinda the nature of the business right now is the artists are wanting to write their own records and say what they want to say, ‘cause it’s hard to find a song you want to sing every single night that didn’t come from your story.”
“God Bless the Boy” (Cody Johnson)
“American Scandal” (Ashley McBryde)