1 Hit ‘Girl Crush’: We Were Willing to Take a Chance On It’ ’ My husband in particular is very good about not taking songs personally - he knows how the emotional content of a song has a mind of its own sometimes.” Sometimes they might say something and follow it with, ‘Yeah, write that. “They know me well enough by now when it comes to how my writer brain works. ‘Humble and Kind’ is really the first song I’ve written specifically for them and to all five of my kids, but they have always made their way into lines here and there along the way.” And her family is aware that things they say might just make it into a song.
“My family influences every part of my career - from how I travel to how I tour to what I’m drawn to write about,” says McKenna. “They’ve been with me on this musical journey from the very beginning. Lori McKenna Brings the Solo Songwriter Back to No. I can just jump in a car, get on a plane, and head down there when I can. I think that with that, the kids still being in school here, and my husband’s job and our families being here, this is where I need to be. I need to sit on things emotionally, and I’m not good at that. I know myself as a writer to the point that if I lived in Nashville, I would want to write a song every day because of all the great songwriters that live there. Though she has written for many of Music City’s biggest artists, she chooses to continue to reside in her native state of Massachusetts. “They can’t get rid of me up here, at least for now,” she says.
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