Nashville Songwriter: Country Music's Greatest Hits
Award-winning music biographer Jake Brown returns to store shelves nationwide with a shift from the rock world to the country world with his new book\xa0Nashville Songwriter: The Inside Stories Behind Country Music\u2019s Greatest Hits which includes exclusive interviews with country legends Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and a long list of hit songwriters.\xa0\n\nThe book features interviews with the writers behind country's greatest hits like Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying, Lady Antebellum's We Owned The Night, Carrie Underwood's Jesus Take The Wheel,\xa0and many more.\n\nSongwriters featured, in this 300-plus page book,\xa0include Craig Wiseman, Dean Dillon, Bob DiPiero, Bill Anderson, Sonny Curtis, Tom Shapiro, Kelley Lovelace, Rivers Rutherford, Tom T. Hall, Wayne Carson, Chris Dubois, Dallas Davidson, David Lee Murphy, and Freddy Powers.\xa0\n\nIn addition to these never-before-revealed stories behind the songs, aspiring songwriters will find countless gems of wisdom about the craft and career of songwriting itself.\n\nJake Brown has written 35 published books since 2001, featuring many authorized collaborations with some of rock\u2019s biggest artists, including 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Heart (with Ann and Nancy Wilson), living guitar legend Joe Satriani, heavy metal pioneers Motorhead (with Lemmy Kilmister), late hip hop icon Tupac Shakur (with the estate), celebrated Rock drummer Kenny Aronoff, late Funk pioneer Rick James, and the all-star rock producers anthology \u2018Behind the Boards\u2019, among many others.