Write You A Song Podcast - An Interview With Texas Troubadour Drew Kennedy

This morning we share another new podcast from host Tom Mailey from Bonneville radio station New Country 105.1 KNCI in Sacramento. Tom is a country radio veteran with over 30 years of experience in Seattle and Sacramento and a key partner in our Golf & Guitars Children's Charity Music Festival, a little event in our twelfth year that has raised well north of a million bucks for kids and individuals with disabilities. It highlights the songwriters in our industry and is entitled Write You a Song.

It's his hope that this podcast will shine a little overdue spotlight on the talented men and women who, mostly behind the scenes, write the songs that become part of our lives. You know their words and music, but maybe not their names: Write You a Song will feature some of country music’s biggest songwriters--like Jeffrey Steele, Brett Warren, Ashley McBryde, Tim Nichols and more.

Texas singer/songwriter Drew Kennedy is a bit of a departure from the normal line-up of commercially successful country songwriter guests on this podcast. He has a gift of storytelling that comes through his songs easily and unforced, bringing the listener along like they were a passenger with him on those long lonesome highways of Texas. He's an Americana troubadour, and more than happy to share his tales from the road- and where he hopes that road might be leading.

He describes the life of an independent Texas music scene and how those artists are chasing more storytelling and authenticity than the flavor of the month that Nashville is more specifically targeting. He discusses the deeper breadth of song topics and styles that come with the freedom of writing for yourself and not for the narrow focus of the country radio dial.