Nashville Songwriters with Ed Sheeran

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Ed Sheeran on Nashville Songwriters, plus specials with John Legend, Adele and more stars.

Exploring the art and craft of the world's songwriters, featuring John Legend on The Beatles’ influence, Adele at the BBC, the Queen Story, plus much more.

Exploring the art and craft of the world's songwriters, we hear from some of the most famous names - and their well-known fans - and discover how their extraordinary skills with words and music connects with people and makes them feel. Featuring John Legend on The Beatles’ influence, Adele at the BBC, plus much more.

Radio 2 Celebrates Songwriting: Nashville Songwriters with Ed Sheeran

Nashville Songwriters

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Ed Sheeran introduces a look at the Nashville songwriting industry.

Ed Sheeran introduces a look at Music City songwriters. Nashville is the country songwriting capital, home to thousands of the globe’s most successful commercial songwriters.

Ed Sheeran - a long-time fan and supporter of country music - introduces this special look at the work of Music City songwriters. Nashville is the country songwriting capital, home to thousands of the globe’s most successful commercial songwriters and the ‘must visit’ destination for countless more wanting their own work sprinkled with some of the city's fairy dust. Nashville is a song factory, utilising an almost industrial level of organisation to ensure that hits are generated on a daily basis every day of the year.  

Songwriters work around the clock to get the job done... famously, Dolly Parton wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same afternoon - the products of a Nashville writing session. But it's not just country music - all genres are covered by Nashville-based songwriters and collaborators, from Pixie Lott, Lady Gaga and One Direction to Peter Frampton, Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey. 

This hour-long programme introduces listeners to that world, showing how the machine works and talking to songwriters and artists to uncover the secrets of the only hit factory in the world that is a whole town. Contributors include Keith Urban, Lori McKenna, Brad Paisley, Jaren Johnston of the Cadillac Three and more whose names you may not know but whose songs you definitely will!

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