#199 - Jim Beavers on writing 14 year old Taylor Swift, Plays Work Tapes of Chris Stapleton and The Song He Didn’t Think Anyone Would Cut
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Jim Beavers has written no. 1 songs for Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Tim McGraw and more. He talks about growing up in Texas and moving to Nashville working on the business side of music before becoming a writer. He plays us some work tapes of Chris Stapleton doing songs for Hootie and The Blowfish and Luke Bryan. He also talks about how he got to write with Taylor Swift before she was famous…and why they never finished the song they wrote.
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| 1:29.1 | Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to episode 199 with Jim Beaver, |
| 1:37.9 | which you come in and we've been up here before. The whole setup wasn't up. |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah, I've never seen the lights up here. I'm talking on the mic. I'm sorry. I've never done this |
| 1:46.4 | before. You know it this. This is literally my first podcast, a first Bobby cast. I'm sorry. |
| 1:50.9 | Have you ever done a podcast? Never. Oh, you haven't done anything. No, |
| 1:53.6 | I'm like, just, you know, you're talking a microphone. I'm right. Of course I've used a |
| 1:58.8 | microphone. Here's my story with Jim real quick. So we go out and Jim and I would Jim and I |
| 2:04.0 | would go out. We go out. We go out and we're in Amrillo and El Paso one weekend. And I think it was |
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