Ep. 61: Shane McAnally

And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan

And The Writer Is

Unknown, Music Interviews, Songwriting, Music, Songwriters, Education, Interviews, Music Creation, Artists

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🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Our guest is a three-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer who has earned 40 No. 1 singles to date. He was named Songwriter of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in 2014 and 2019. Hot Country Songwriter of the Year by Billboard in 2015. This writer co-produced Kacey Musgraves' 2012 award-winning debut album, ‘Same Trailer Different Park,’ which earned him the Grammy for Best Country Album, and her 2015 follow-up, ‘Pageant Material.’ He's also produced debut albums for Sam Hunt (‘Montevallo’), Old Dominion (‘Meat and Candy’), Midland (‘On the Rocks’), Walker Hayes (‘boom.’) and more. In 2016, he arranged and produced "Forever Country," a collaborative song featuring Luke Bryan, Faith Hill, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and more to commemorate the CMA's 50th anniversary celebration. "Forever Country" debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, making it the third song to debut at No. 1 on the chart since it began in 1958. He earned a five-times-platinum No. 1 co-writing "Body Like a Back Road," by Sam Hunt, which was the longest-reigning No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Song chart by a solo artist, spending 34 weeks atop the chart. Last year, our guest announced his co-presidency of Monument Records (with industry veteran Jason Owen) in conjunction with Sony Records, adding "label head" to his impressive list of accomplishments. He earned his latest No. 1 song with Old Dominion's “Make It Sweet“ and was named to Billboard's 2018 Country Power Players list. He also co-wrote Kacey Musgraves' "Space Cowboy," which recently won Best Country Song at the Grammys. This summer he will serve as a producer on NBC’s new musical competition series “Songland.” And The Writer Is…Shane McAnally!

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0:00.0	Welcome to season 4 of And the writer is. I am your host Ross Golan. I've written with
0:15.7	hundreds of artists and writers over the years and my favorite part of each
0:19.2	session is the first hour when we catch up about life, the industry, politics, composition, whatever.
0:26.0	So this is a journey of learning why people write songs, how people write songs, and most importantly,
0:32.0	who the people are who write the songs.
0:34.6	I'm producing this with the Great Joe London, big deal music publishing, and mega house
0:39.4	music management.
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1:31.1	Welcome to and the writer is I am your host Ross Golan. Today's guest is the
1:37.8	legend songwriter giant a list producer former curb, who's earned multi-grammy nominations and wins, has gone a
1:48.2	gajillion times platinum, has been crowned ACM songwriter of the year, and is an all-around country and sometimes
1:56.5	not country music personality.
1:59.5	He's worked with almost every single person you could think of in the country world from
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