I know what he means now more than ever…<\/p>\n
I lived in Nashville from 2001 to 2011 chasing the “next big star\u201d dream up and down 16th Ave. I was even lucky enough to get close a time or two. During that time, I taught myself to write songs out of necessity and as fate would have it, I totally fell in love with the craft of songwriting. But in a beautiful turn of life, I took\u00a0a step back in 2011 to\u00a0focus on my new\u00a0love; my growing family.<\/p>\n
Then, in 2015 the songs came calling again\u2026 actually, it was more like SHOUTING. My dad signed me up for Radney Foster\u2019s Songwriting Revival in Nashville and with great excitement and a bit of reluctance (since my wife had just had our 2nd daughter), I began knocking the rust off my songwriting skills. I was amazed at the difference in lyrical perspective that time, distance, and family brings.<\/p>\n
At the end of the Songwriting Revival, Radney pulled me aside, looked me in the eye, and spoke words I will never forget: \u201cI know that you stepped away from writing and I don\u2019t know all the reasons why, but you need<\/em> to do this. There is absolutely no reason you shouldn\u2019t be writing professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s a divine moment that I couldn\u2019t ignore, especially coming from my songwriting hero!<\/p>\n So here I am, writing the best songs of\u00a0my life. Inspired by stories of writers like Tom Douglas (House that Built Me) and Brett James (Jesus Take The Wheel) who hit their stride the second time around and Lori McKenna (Girl Crush) who commutes from Boston to Nashville and is making it happen in a crazy awesome way. I\u2019m writing with some of my favorite cowriters from before as well as some incredible new ones, building strong relationships in the music community and honestly, enjoying every moment. I\u2019m not sure exactly where the Good Lord is leading me this time around but I\u2019m excited about the adventure and embracing the challenge of creating the best possible song every time I sit down to write.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be sharing new songs, blogs and pictures here and I hope you enjoy the journey with me!<\/p>\n – JB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cYou’ll know you’re supposed to be a songwriter when the songs won’t leave you alone.\u201d – Rivers Rutherford I know what he means now more than ever… I lived in Nashville from 2001 to 2011 chasing the “next big star\u201d dream up and down 16th Ave. I was even lucky enough to get close a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshbyrdmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}