Ep. 161: Ben Johnson (live from Austin, TX)

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And The Writer Is

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Today’s guest is GRAMMY nominated songwriter, producer, and artist living in Nashville, TN. He is signed to a worldwide co-publishing deal with Tape Room Music (Nashville) and Artist Publishing Group (Los Angeles) as well as a record deal with BMG (Stoney Creek), and has written songs for artists such as Charlie Puth, Thomas Rhett, Kane Brown, Ava Max, Lee Brice, Meek Mill, Justin Timberlake, Lauren Alaina, Dierks Bentley, HARDY, Parmalee, Jake Owen, David Guetta, Bebe Rexha, and more. Originally from Meridian, Mississippi, he grew up surrounded by music. He is a classically trained pianist and cellist, and grew up performing everywhere from bluegrass festivals to orchestra concerts. From a young age, our guest has written and produced music with his two sisters in their country band Track45 (managed by Missi Gallimore and Gary Borman, and signed to BBR/Stoney Creek). His first major cut was “Patient” with multi-platinum pop artist Charlie Puth on the 2018 album “Voicenotes”. Since then, heʼs had many cuts in both the pop and country worlds, as well as success as a producer. Johnson had his first #1 in 2020 with Lee Brice’s “One of Them Girls”, which stayed at the top of the charts for 3 weeks. He has gone on to write many more #1 songs including “Gone” (Dierks Bentley), “Take My Name” (Parmalee), “Best Thing Since Backroads” (Jake Owen), “Beers On Me” (Dierks Bentley, HARDY, Breland), “New Truck” (Dylan Scott), a Canadian country #1 with “11 Beers” (The Recklaws), and a 4 week Alternative Airplay #1 with Weezer’s “All My Favorite Songs”. In 2021, our guest broke into the top 10 on Music Row Magazine’s Top Songwriter Chart and has been in the top 5 for the last 6 months. He won the 2021 AIMP Song of the Year award for “One of Them Girls” as well as the 2021 AIMP Publisher’s Pick Award for HARDY’s “Give Heaven Some Hell”. Additionally, he was nominated for the 2021 Music. He made history in 2021 with the first song to ever win Country Song of the Year at all three PROs (BMI, ASCAP, and SESAC) with “One of Them Girls”. In 2022, Johnson received his first GRAMMY nomination for “Rock Song of the Year” with Weezer’s “All My Favorite Songs”. And The Writer Is Live… with Ben Johnson!

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0:00.0	Welcome to And The Writer is with Ross Gollum.
0:13.9	There are millions of singers, thousands of artists and only 40 songs per genre at a time.
0:20.2	These are the stories of the hottest creatives, the most venerable legends, artists, songwriters,
0:25.8	executives, and more.
0:28.1	Please join our discord, follow our socials, and share your music with The And The Writer
0:33.5	is community.
0:34.5	See you all there and now, here's this week's episode.
0:41.4	Hey guys, Pac-Taz here.
0:45.2	All right, so should we start, because like I mean, let's just roll.
0:49.4	Let's go.
0:51.4	All right, let's do it.
0:54.3	Welcome to And The Writer is I Am Your Host, Ross Gollum.
0:58.6	Today's Grammy-nominated songwriter, producer, and artist is the hottest writer in country
1:04.5	and in the country.
1:06.4	He currently has six songs on country radio with five being in the top 20.
1:12.0	He's worked with artists from Charlie Puth, to Hardy, to Weezer, to J. Goin, to Eva
1:17.6	Max, to Lee Bryce, which makes sense from a kid who is a classically trained pianist
1:22.8	and cellist and grew up performing at Bluegrass Festivals.
1:27.4	In 2021, this guy broke into the top 10 on Music Row Magazine's top songwriter chart.
1:34.7	But most impressive, this Mississippi native is a loyal husband and good human.
1:41.1	We are alive from Austin, Texas, and the writer is Ben Johnson.
1:47.1	Thank you.
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