Ep. 85: Ashley Gorley...Stays At Home
And The Writer Is...with Ross Golan
And The Writer Is
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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We last spoke with this guest in Season 2. Since then he has earned 47 No. 1 singles and has had more than 300 songs recorded by artists such as Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line, Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Jason Aldean, and Darius Rucker. He has been named the ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year 7 times. And the NSAI Songwriter of the Year 4 times. He has been nominated for multiple Grammy, CMA, and ACM Awards and is the most decorated CMA Triple Play Awards recipient with 15 total trophies to his credit. In 2011, he formed Tape Room Music, a publishing company with a focus on artist development. And The Writer Is… Ashley Gorley!
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hey guys we are doing a few updates here with our alumni who we love dearly and we hope all of you guys are staying healthy, safe, and staying at home during this quarantine |
| 0:49.2 | and hope you enjoy listening to a few of our previous guests telling you what's been going on in their life |
| 0:55.5 | since they did their interview. Here are some updates for the quarantine versions of And the Writer is. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's start this thing. |
| 1:12.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, Ashley Gurley back on And The Writer is, this time the |
| 1:17.8 | quarantine version. Here with Peter Pugman, my newest writer. |
| 1:27.0 | The mascot. |
| 1:29.0 | The mascot, the company mascot. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. How have you been, man? |
| 1:34.0 | I mean, since you, uh, since we did your interview, you uh, you managed to have, you know, a two or three more years maybe already of winning ask |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah man. It's yes very crazy very fortunate. It's been a good. It's been a good it's been a good a couple of years since we've talked last for sure. |
| 1:57.1 | Why do you keep going this hard? Like why do you feel like you need to keep going at this pace? |
| 2:07.0 | Yeah, you know, I don't have a good slow gear guess, you know what I mean? |
| 2:14.1 | Like whatever I'm going after, I always tend to kind of hit it at 100, |
| 2:17.5 | so that's just kind of a habit. |
| 2:20.2 | You know, it's like the more songs I write, |
| 2:22.1 | the more I want to write. So once get in in the zone that I tend to to go pretty hard but there's still a lot of things I just love doing it you know so it's not |
| 2:29.8 | Necessarily chasing a writer-of-the the year goal or whatever. |
| 2:32.6 | I just love working with all the different artists and writing all the different kinds of songs |
| 2:37.6 | I have in my head, so I just have a tendency to write a lot. |
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