#359 - Jonathan Singleton on Writing ‘Beer Never Broke My Heart’ and Starting A Publishing Company with Luke Combs + His Guitar Heroes and How he ‘Insults’ Vince Gill + His Punk Covers of Country Songs

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Jonathan Singleton is one of the funniest guys in country music. He is a Grammy nominated songwriter, singer, musician, producer and businessman. He has written 13 #1’s and many more top 10 hits including: Beer Never Broke My Heart, Die From A Broken Heart, I Hope You’re Happy Now, Same Boat, Things a Man Oughta Know and many more! He talks about his songwriting process, how he and Luke Combs met and started a business together and what he likes to do outside of country music to fuel his creative/comedic mind. He and Bobby workshop some ideas for comedy songs and listen to his punk covers of country songs that either he or his friends have written.

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0:55.6	Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:25.7	On Episodes of Dear Chikies.
1:39.1	Episode 369. Jonathan Singleton. One of the funniest, easiest guys to talk to.
1:44.3	I mean, I always kind of get into a groove where we're just hanging out. It's awesome. So
1:48.5	Jonathan Singleton music, if you want to follow him. His last three number ones as a songwriter,
1:54.3	Matting and Tei, Die from a Broken Heart. Things a man out of no, Laney Wilson.
2:04.8	Same boat, Zach Brownbann.
2:09.3	We're all insane. He's co-owner of 50 Egg, which is his publishing company,
2:15.0	and Luke Holmes is the other co-owner. So, you know, they're paying people to write awesome songs.
2:19.8	He's from Jackson, Tennessee, drove Nashville every chance he could during college to write.
2:23.6	Got a publishing deal to write songs, and he was an artist for a while. Still a great singer.
2:28.5	He's the whole thing. He's funny, engaging. After five years, he's back. Here we go. Jonathan
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