CRS 2013: Bob Kingsley’s Acoustic Corner with Nashville’s Top Songwriters – in pictures

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If you read UCN regularly, you will know that one of my favorite topics is songwriting. I could spend my days talking about it and my evenings at the Bluebird Café and I’d be quite happy with the world. Iconic radio host Bob Kingsley once again brought some of Nashville’s A-list writers together at his Acoustic Corner show during CRS 2013 on Thursday, February 28. It was standing room only upstairs at the Renaissance Hotel as we were treated to some wonderful songs and great stories.

The first round had Luke Laird, Natalie Hemby, and Shane McAnally trading stories and singing some of the big recent hits. All three of these writers are, incredibly, still in the earlier stages of their success and will no doubt go on to write many more chart toppers. We heard the next Brad Paisley hit, ‘Beat this Summer,’ from Laird, Miranda Lambert hit ‘Baggage Claim,’ from Hemby, and ‘Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,’  from McAnally, recorded by Luke Bryan.

Frequent Brad Paisley collaborator Lee Thomas Miller and Luke Bryan producer Jeff Stevens were joined in the second round by Brandy Clark and Tom Douglas. Between the four of them, they played some of the best known songs of the last decade and some of the biggest recent hits, including ‘In Color,’ (Miller, co-written with Jamey Johnson), ‘Carrying Your Love with Me,’ (Stevens, recorded by George Strait), ‘Your Mama’s Broken Heart,’ (Clark, recorded by Miranda Lambert), and ‘The House that Built Me,’ (Douglas, recorded by Miranda Lambert).

Songwriters rounds featuring these kinds of heavy-hitter are my absolute favorite form of entertainment. With the CMA doing a wonderful job bringing its CMA Songwriters Series to different cities, and now also to Europe, try to catch one of them as soon as possible.

Check out some photos from the evening.

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Shane McAnally
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Luke Laird explaining what went on in the writers room during the writing of ‘1994,’ Jason Aldean’s current single.
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Luke Laird and Natalie Hemby
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Shane McAnally singing his recent #1 hit, ‘Better Dig Two.’
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Laird, Hemby, and McAnally sang the first big cut they all wrote together, ‘Downtown,’ the current single by Lady Antebellum
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Host Bob Kingsley
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Jeff Stevens and Brandy Clark
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Jeff Stevens tells the audience how a snake trapped in a kitchen lead to writing ‘Back When,’ recorded by Tim McGraw.
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Brandy Clark finishes her round with a #1 hit, ‘Better Dig Two.’
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Tom Douglas playing ‘#37405,’ recorded by Tim McGraw for his current album, Two Lanes of Freedom

 

Liv Carter

Liv Carter

Liv is a career coach for creatives, and the people who work with them.
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.
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