American Songwriter

We Just Lost the Hall of Fame Songwriter and Alan Jackson Collaborator Behind Your Favorite Era-Defining Country Hits of the 90s

The world is just learning that the songwriter behind some of the best country songs of the last four decades has died.
NewsChannel 5 Nashville

Country songwriter behind ‘Chattahoochee’ Jim McBride dies at 78

Jim McBride, the country songwriter behind hits including Alan Jackson’s “Chattahoochee,” has died at 78. He also had early ...
Taste of Country on MSN

Jim McBride, who wrote 'Chattahoochee' + other hits, dead at 78

Jim McBride, a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member who wrote several iconic pieces of the country music songbook, died on Tuesday (Jan. 6), per WAFF 48. He was 78 years old. He was perhaps best ...
American Songwriter

4 Alan Jackson Hits That Sound Like He Wrote Them, but Were Actually Written by Someone Else

Alan Jackson has written or co-written plenty of his own songs. It’s Jackson who is the writer on songs like “Here in the Real World”, “Chattahoochee“, “Drive (For Daddy Gene)”, and more. “Gone ...