This Georgia Boy Can Write Country Songs

This Georgia Boy Can Write Country Songs.  The songs you hear every day on Kicks 99 would not be where they are today without the songwriters. Songwriting to me is not a skill.  It's a gift from GOD! A lot of people will disagree with that and that's ok.

I have always been under the belief that the best songs can't be written until they have been lived. Listen to songs like, "Live Like You We're Dying", "He Stopped Loving Her Today", and "My Favorite Memory." Those were songs that were full of heartbreak that someone went through to write.

On the other side, Songwriting can also be fun. Toby Keith and The Warren Brothers were drinking on Toby's bus   One of them said you can write a country song about anything, Toby held up the cup he was drinking out of and 15 minutes later comes "Red Solo Cup".

So that brings me to Cole Swindell.  Your country music fact of the day. On October 6, 2011, Cole Swindell was out on the road with Luke Bryan and Cole wrote what would become one of Luke's biggest songs, "Roller Coaster" This song was written in the back of Luke's bus just killing time before the show started.

The motivation and inspiration can hit anywhere and a song can be written fast like "Red Solo Cup" or take years like Vince Gill did on "Go Rest High On That Mountain", which was a song he started writing when Keith Whitley passed away. He put it away for a few years and after his brother Bob died, he finished the song. It can happen in all kinds of ways.

Cole Swindell has written many songs for other country singers plus songs he recorded himself. Here are some of those songs!