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🗓️ 5 September 2023
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Today’s versatile songwriting superstar earned her stripes touring with her family band. Originally from New York, this writer spend most of her childhood on the road, playing instruments, singing and writing songs. After the family band split up, she moved to Nashville where she dove into the songwriting scene. It took many years of grinding through the Nashville scene before stringing together this most impressive 5 year stretch. She’s been Grammy nominated for four years running, won a CMA Award, an ACM Award and was nominated for the first ever Grammy Award for Songwriter of the Year. Named Billboard’s 2022 Songwriter of the Year and a Variety Hitmaker in 2020, she has also been awarded four NSAI Awards and presented with the Yellow Rose of Inspiration Award by the Nashville-based Song Suffragettes for her contributions to the songwriting
community.
In 2020, “The Bones” reached number-one on the Country charts, achieving Top 10 on both Hot AC and Top 40 charts and shattering the record for most consecutive weeks held by a solo female artist after spending 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song’s historic reign propelled this writer to become the first female to claim the number-one spot on Billboard’s Top Country Songwriter chart, a feat she held for five consecutive weeks. The global smash also earned her several awards, including the BMI Pop Song of the Year. Her songs have also been recorded by Demi Lovato, Madeline Edward, Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, The Highwomen, Dierks Bentley, Kane Brown, Monsta X, Trisha Yearwood, Little Big Town, Ryan Hurd, Brothers Osborne, Carly Pearce, Mitchell Tenpenny and more. It’s safe to say that this writer is a certified hit-maker who’s work ethic and passion for songwriting have propelled her into well-deserved success.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to And The Writer is with Ross Golan. |
0:13.9 | There are millions of singers, thousands of artists and only 40 songs per genre at a time. |
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0:33.0 | See you all there and now, here's this week's episode. |
0:47.4 | Hey guys, I'm excited to say a few words about one of today's sponsors, Seeker Music. |
0:52.4 | Seeker was founded and is run by one of my very dear friends and repeat guests on And The Writer is |
0:57.6 | Evan Bogart. Evan is an advocate for songwriters. He is in charge of the songwriter wing of the |
1:05.8 | Grammys. He's a trustee for the Grammys. He's just a good person. And so that kind of |
1:12.4 | community and culture is what Seeker is based on. They acquire only the best catalogs and |
1:19.5 | sign only the best humans, including Christopher Cross, The Go Go's, Run the Jewels, John |
1:25.2 | Belly, and John Ryan, Mozello, Julian Bennett, his family, and Farah Cara Diaguardi's |
1:29.2 | Our House Future Cut, Sam Waters, Ruth Ann, Brian Morgan, and various other amazing songwriters. |
1:34.6 | In fact, they're publishing deals with Keto, Robo Pop, Sophie of All Des, Charlie Brand, |
1:40.0 | Tilly, and more. So I recommend you go follow Seeker on all their social media sites, |
1:45.0 | but go follow Evan to and let them know how much you appreciate Evan's work. Because of him, |
1:50.7 | we have songwriter of the year. Because of him, we have songwriters added to the album of the year |
1:55.5 | for the Grammys. And now he's got his publishing company that is a wonderful sponsor for our |
2:01.6 | podcast. So thank you again Seeker and go check them out now. Hey guys, there's a cool company |
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