Songs for Sale

Album: The Sound of a Million Dreams (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was written by Nashville songwriters Scooter Carusoe and Billy Montana about a subject they know a lot about... songwriting! Said Nail to Roughstock: "People sometimes mock the waiter or the person working in the mall who call themselves a songwriter. The next questions are always, 'But what do you really do? And what do you do to make money?' If there was ever a more well-written song about what we do for a living, I haven't heard it. It's got a really cool groove."
  • The song features an appearance by Lee Ann Womack. The country songstress is married to The Sound of a Million Dreams co-producer Frank Liddell and she was listening in whilst Nail and her husband were doing preproduction at her house. After suggesting Nail sung the song in a lower key, she ended up singing on it with him.

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