![]() We haven’t won anything yet, but being a nominee makes me feel like a winner. To my co-writers on the song, Bobby Tomberlin and Ryan Larkins to the record producer, Thomm Jutz to Cindy Mabe and her staff at Universal Records, who believed from the beginning, as did Rusty Gaston and his staff at Sony Music Publishing….thank you, thank you, thank you. “There are so many people to thank, starting with Dolly, who was so gracious to lend her incredible talents to the record. “What an incredible moment I experienced this morning when my son, Jamey, called to tell me that Dolly Parton and I have a Grammy nomination for our recording of “Someday It’ll All Make Sense.” He heard the news on the radio while he was out running errands and was the first to share it with me,” shared Anderson. To stream and download “Someday It’ll All Make Sense (Bluegrass Version)” click HERE. This is Anderson’s fifth nomination overall, after previously being nominated as a songwriter for “Once A Day” recorded by Connie Smith, “Cold Hard Facts of Life” recorded by Porter Wagoner, “Two Teardrops” recorded by Steve Wariner and “Give It Away” recorded by George Strait. Jon loved that line so we wrote it down and then he said, “Here’s a line here: ‘He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.’ I said, ‘Well, let’s forget about the ‘Midnight Cigarette.’ Man, you’ve got the perfect idea for the song there.’ And it just kind of flowed there.”Ĭountry music titan Bill Anderson receives his first-ever GRAMMY® nomination as an artist in the Best American Roots Performance category for “Someday It’ll All Make Sense” (Bluegrass Version) with Dolly Parton. ![]() That was what I wanted to write the whole song about. I went to the writing session with the idea to write a song called, ‘Midnight Cigarette.’ Basically that turned out to be the first line of ‘Whiskey Lullaby’: ‘She put him out like the burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette.’ ![]() He said, “Man, I’m sorry for the way I’ve acted the last couple of weeks.” And his friend said to him, “That’s alright Jon, I’ve put the bottle to my head and pulled the trigger a few times in my life.” So when Jon came to the writing session, that was fresh on his mind. When he decided to sober up and come back and join the living again, he apologized to his friend. And he went over to a friend’s house and crashed for a couple of weeks. He had gotten a divorce and lost his writing deal and his record deal all within just a day or two of each other. Jon was going through some pretty rough times back then. ![]() Jon Randall and I wrote the song together. Recorded by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, ‘Whiskey Lullaby’ was the 2005 CMA Song of the Year. Legendary songwriter Bill Anderson talked to The Boot about the emotionally-charged song he co-wrote with Jon Randall. ![]()
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