#341 - Nathan Chapman on Producing for Taylor Swift Before She Had a Record Deal + Producing Taylor’s First Album + How His Wife Sang with Keith Urban on the ‘We Were Us’ Demo

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4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Nathan Chapman is a three time Grammy award winning producer. He is known primarily for working with Taylor Swift, having co-produced with Swift for her albums Taylor Swift, Fearless, Speak Now, Red and 1989. He’s also a songwriter and solo artist. Bobby and Nathan talk about his approach to working with an artist and what his role is as the producer on a project. Nathan shares the story about meeting a teenage Taylor Swift before she even had a record deal and recording demos in a shack that went on to be her debut album. Nathan also talks about working with Keith Urban and the song that went on to be a big hit that he actually had his wife sing on the demo with Keith. He also shares where he keeps his Grammys and the motivation to fill out his trophy case.

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1:37.8	You know I do reference this in this interview but I met Nathan Chapman at the airport very quickly
1:42.0	and I kind of went up to him and bothered him and was like I'm big fan then I just walked off
1:46.0	immediately like the loser I am. But this guy's a big deal and it's for me these are the fun ones
1:51.9	because hopefully you're listening to this because you like the second level in music.
1:55.7	And sure we get the big stars like the front facing big stage sell tickets kind of people
2:00.2	but without people like Nathan Chapman they wouldn't be doing that. So it's a cool one for me.
2:05.6	He's a three time Grammy winning producer. He's a songwriter, he's a solo artist. He has 17
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