This week we are joined by Adam Craig. Adam has experience on both sides of the coin. He has pursued a career as a recording and touring artist, and was even named by Rolling Stone as one of the top 10 country acts to know in 2016, but he's recently put the road to rest to focus on his passion for songwriting.
Adam has contributed to Church Pew and Barstool by Jason Aldean, Whiskey on my Breath by Love and Theft, and Close Your Eyes by Parmalee among many others. Adam provides us with some great perspective as a songwriter, while keeping a foot in the performer camp, and how focusing on the work can deliver the goal in the end, on this episode of The Big Break
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Show Notes
3:10How the pandemic has affected Adam, both professionally and personally
8:24Social media and the new landscape of music promotion
John Marx and getting involved with XM
11:34Meeting Jake Owen’s producer, Adam drops everything to focus and improve and starting the
road to Nashville
“I’d meet a girl and tell her I loved her just to get my heart broken.”
16:00Adam moves to Nashville in pursuit of country music
“I came here to be Tim McGraw.”
21:30Getting, and losing, publishing deals, and then the snowball of hits that lead to a record deal
Church Pews and Barstools by Jason Aldean
30:13Transitioning from songwriter, to performer, to songwriter
40:00How do you lose a publishing deal?
42:42What’s next for Adam Craig
My First Car by Meghan Patrick
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