Jim Beavers has written no. 1 songs for Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Tim McGraw and more. He talks about growing up in Texas and moving to Nashville working on the business side of music before becoming a writer. He plays us some work tapes of Chris Stapleton doing songs for Hootie and The Blowfish and Luke Bryan. He also talks about how he got to write with Taylor Swift before she was famous…and why they never finished the song they wrote.
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