Joining us this week is Brent Baxter, a hit songwriter who has worked with artists like Alan Jackson, Lady Antebellum, Randy Travis, and many more. He is also one of the co-hosts of the songwriter podcast The C.L.I.M.B. and is extremely active in the songwriter development sphere through the website Songwriting Pro.
After working a nine-to-five, Brent took the leap and moved to Nashville to pursue his dreams as a songwriter. Brent shares his experiences growing as a songwriter and finding a publisher who wants to invest in your future, not your past, on this episode of The Big Break.
Show Notes
1:20 Where are you these days?
5:02 Do you think the remote writing method has enough benefits to stay as a norm?
7:15 Are you more of a lyricist or a melody creator?
8:09 Growing up as a storyteller, and first putting words to music
11:30\tWhere did you go to school and what did you study?
12:11\tGetting a degree, but discovering the dream of Nashville
13:55\tThe first song, and starting to make trips to Nashville
15:10\tA certification for ‘Triple Plywood’
15:47\tAlltel Communications
17:09\tWhen do you realize that it’s time to quit the job and move to Nashville?
18:20\tA room opens up, and the Nashville journey begins
19:54\tBlue Water Music
23:10\tFiguring out balancing working and learning the business, and writing
24:07\tIs being exclusively a lyricist limiting at all? Is it common?
25:40\tErin Enderlin
26:46\tCreating Monday Morning Church
28:20\tHow did Monday Morning Church make its way to a big placement?
30:31\tGetting a call at 1:00 AM
33:30\tAlan Jackson gets the cut, now the wait to see if it makes the record.
35:50\tHow do you leverage a hit like that so it doesn’t become just a fluke?
37:17\tJeff Carlton
38:11\tDon’t burn bridges
40:00\tGetting connected to Major Bob Music
42:49\t“I need to know you’re in it for my future”
43:50\tWhen did the songwriter coaching component become part of what you do?
48:10\tDid your job at Blue Water help you with the teaching you do now?
50:35\tSocial credit, and staying current
52:17\tIf there was one piece of advice you could give to songwriters, what would it be?
55:30\tHow do people find you?
56:30\tThanks for joining us
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