Kent blazy biography

So Garth Brooks is a really generous person and he also likes to put different combinations together to write. And he called me one day and he said, "I played a song of ours for this kid, Kim Williams. But he said he hated the song, but he liked one lyric in the song. He liked one line and he thought maybe that could be a song. Yeah, I'll write with him.

So we got together and we wrote a couple things with Garth, and there was a good chemistry. And so we started working together more and more. And Garth called me one day and he said, "I want to write a kent blazy biography with machine gun lyrics. Call Kim. And so I called Kim and said, "Hey, Garth called. And he wants to write a song with machine gun lyrics.

It was what I love about him. Once again, he had this vision of what he needed for the single off the next record, that he also wanted it to be if it turned out, a big showcase song for this NBC show he had in Dallas, that he was going to be on. So he kind of already had, in his mind, what this song was going to be, but he didn't know what the song was.

So he came over and I had just bought this house in Nashville that had sat vacant for a year and a half, so it was kind of falling apart. So I had people there painting and hammering and banging and knocking walls out, and the whole bit. And so we went out on the back porch and we wrote machine gun lyrics all day in a yellow pad. And when we were as sunburned as we could possibly get from being out there, he said, "Well, I think we got enough.

Let's go in and kind of just put it all together. I want you to get a drum machine going and the whole bit. And back then, drum machines were really bad. And if there was a guitar player program and a drum machine, it was worse because it sounded like a guitar player playing drums. So I had this little drum machine going, kind of how he wanted it.

And Kim and Garth were standing behind me and one of them went, "Oh my God. So I guess the drum machine pissed them off, which I can understand. But so I was kind of stressed out, that here's my new house that I have, and it's filled with termites. And Kim Williams had a great sense of humor. And he went, "Oh kent blazy biography, when Garth and I wrote Papa Loved Mama, there were cockroaches crawling all over my apartment, and it was a number one song, and this is going to be too.

Thank you, Kim Williams. Kim Williams daughter, Amanda, is a red head and she was a wild child. And so we put it in there just to honor her. I was wondering if it was just cause it rhymed with red head and bed. Well, it did. But I think that was part of it, is just get her in there and say, Mandy, we know about you. Yeah, she knows. And she's turned into a great songwriter.

She's had a couple songs on Garth's records. And so she's kind of passing on the family tradition. So the melodies are sort of classic one, four, five, that's so catchy? It's like Chuck Berry. It was so good. And he was so good at being able to write those fast lyrics that were all about teenage lust and love, even though he was probably in his thirties at the time.

And so it's just, Garth knew he wanted that kind of song that would just get people up, get people excited. And there'd been some other songs out about that time that kind of had that same groove. It was a real kind of uptempo thing. And maybe Katmandu and a couple of things like that. And so I kind of just thought, well, it's in between Chuck Berry, and maybe Bob Seger, and something like that.

So that's kind of what we came up with. And it's just one of those things that, you still hear it on the radio and you start driving too fast. And in live shows, it's awesome. And the funniest thing to me, the coolest thing was, he knew that it was going to be in his Dallas show.

Kent blazy biography

But what we didn't know, was he was going to fly across the auditorium, singing this song at the same time. So Kim, when we kind of heard what he was going to do, Kim and I, and our wives, hopped on a plane and went down to Dallas. It's like, we got to see this. And so Kim and his wife were sitting behind me. And Garth took off from the stage, went up about 20 feet in the air and then started flying, probably 50 or 60 feet up above the whole audience, all the way to the back audience at the end of the auditorium.

And Kim looked at me. He said, "You couldn't drive a roof nail up my ass with a sledgehammer right now. But yeah, it was true. And the day before, when he had tried it for the first time, the rope had broken. So that's how brave he is. He's like, well, it didn't work yesterday, maybe it'll work today. And it did, so No, this was probably the third or fourth song.

The first one we wrote, it was interesting. The song that Kim hated had a line in it called, what never happens, what I'll never forget. And so he thought that could be a song. So that's the one that Garth said, "Well, let's get Kim over here and we'll work on that song. So we were working on that song. We took a break, and Garth was over in the corner, and he was kind of singing a bluegrassy feeling thing.

And I'm from Kentucky, and I said, "Well, what is that? And it ended up, when we wrote it, Garth didn't have anything going on. And he told us, "Well, that's going to be on my third album. So third album, that song's on his album. And it's one of my favorite because it's a bluegrassy song. And once again, it's Allen Reynolds and Garth's production, which is almost just like the original guitar vocal on it or whatever.

And so we became So when you can do that with somebody you don't even know, that's probably a good thing. And so we just started writing together, and. So tell me about working with Kim on this song. He's no longer with us. What was his contribution? Kim Williams was larger than life. He was an engineer and he had a hundred operations in one year, and he decided that God wanted him to be a songwriter instead of an engineer.

And so he moved to town and, no pun intended, but he had a fire under him like nobody I've ever met. He would work, he wrote four times a day, every day. He was just eat up with it. And so he was so much fun, he was so funny. But he was so smart, he read all the time. And he liked arguing about philosophical things, especially religion and spiritualism or whatever.

But when you were with Kim, you were always going to laugh. You're always going to have fun. And he was such a great songwriter on knowing how lyrics should lay in. Garth's one of the best songwriters I've ever written with too. I don't like hearing people saying, well, he just had a lot of help. No, he's an incredible songwriter. So we just had fun that day.

And that's where the magic happens, when you're having fun and there's no pressure, and it's kent blazy biography friends laughing. And, well let's stick with Amanda in there. Red head, let's put her in there, and what else can we do just to make it fun and funny and still be real life? And so that was the cool thing about it. We had a number one party.

Garth was so busy, it took a while to even have a number one party with him. And it was just so much fun to be celebrating with two great people, great friends, and just knowing that you created this out of a day that you kent blazy biography just laughing and having fun. Until the termites showed up. Kent Blazy was raised in Lexington, Kentucky.

At an early age, he played rhythm guitar and sang in various local bands, citing The ByrdsRodney Crowell and Joe Ely as influences. This album was released in via VFR Records. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Stay Wild Kent Blazy 7. Not Really Living Kent Blazy 9. Love to Love You Kent Blazy It brought it all home to him about how the Beatles changed the world starting February 9,and the impact they still have.

Nearly 73 million people were watching when The Ed Sullivan Show went on the air and The Beatles took over music forever. The record is a celebration of them, of life and living. In the years that followed other artists, such as The Forrester Sisters, T. The first song Garth and Kent penned together was "If Tomorrow Never Comes" which became the first number one song for both.

The friendship and writing partnership continued as Garth included eight more of their songs on his albums.