Writing Country Songs; Nashville; Music City

The Songwriter - Billy Lee Riley

Photo: JP

This song really reminds me of Nashville; of buying a Hank Williams boxed set at the Ernest Tubb record shop; of meeting Billy Lee Riley in London and a friendly email exchange that followed.

Recommended, if you want to write country song lyrics:

Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy: Classic Country Songs and Their Inside Stories by the Men and Women Who Wrote Them, Dorothy Horstman

"The lyrics to virtually every country song that matters, from "Your Cheatin' Heart" to "Stand By Your Man" to "Friends In Low Places," with comments on each song by the artist who wrote it, or a friend or heir."

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