{"id":1315117,"date":"2019-09-29T20:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812492"},"modified":"2019-09-29T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T02:02:38","slug":"nashville-mourns-mike-busbees-sudden-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/nashville-mourns-mike-busbees-sudden-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Mourns Mike Busbee\u2019s Sudden Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 40m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

There probably isn\u2019t a song in modern country music that hasn\u2019t been written, produced or somehow influenced by the golden touch of busbee.<\/p>\n

Mike Busbee, who has been known by his lowercase surname, has died, and many of the country artists he worked with are sharing their emotional reactions to the songwriter\/producer\u2019s death on Sunday night (Sept. 29). He had been diagnosed with glioblastoma \u2014 an aggressive form of brain cancer \u2014 just a few months ago.<\/p>\n

Busbee, 43, had his first taste of the music business when he learned to play classical piano and jazz trombone when he was growing up in California. After navigating his way through the various genres, spending time working with both rock and pop artists, he landed in country music when he was discovered by Nashville\u2019s sought-after producer Dan Huff. Busbee then went on to work with Garth Brooks, Rascal Flatts<\/a>, Lady Antebellum<\/a>, Little Big Town, Keith Urban<\/a>, Maren Morris<\/a>, Florida Georgia Line, Carly Pearce<\/a>, Hunter Hayes, LoCash, Lauren Alaina, Kelly Clarkson and many, many more.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, busbee had started a music company called Altadena in Los Angeles. It is a joint venture with Warner Bros. Records, Warner\/Chappell Music and Red Light Management. \u201cI have taken steps throughout my career to pursue meaningful music and strong relationships. With the launch of Altadena, I\u2019m excited to continue this pursuit in partnership with the incredible teams at Warner Bros. Records, Warner\/Chappell and Red Light,\u201d busbee had said in a press release at the time.<\/p>\n

In a recent Rolling Stone<\/em> story, busbee shared his love for the Nashville way of doing business. \u201cI started out and still would consider myself a pop writer. But I\u2019m very grateful to come up in the Nashville way of doing things \u2014 they have an incredibly high bar and talent level. One of the beautiful things about that system is that you get to write with so many people, and people are typically gracious (enough) to take the chance on you. If they think you\u2019re really talented, you\u2019re in \u2014 even if you haven\u2019t had a hit for a minute,\u201d he\u2019d said, \u201cbecause that happens to everybody. Pop is a little more like, \u2018Well, what have you done lately?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The story behind Morris\u2019 \u201cMy Church,\u201d according to Songwriter Universe<\/em>, is that after knowing each other for a few years, they\u2019d booked a songwriting session and really started to hit it off. \u201cLong story short, I got enamored by her talent and reached out to her. We started writing together. She had been out in L.A. to do some writing sessions\u201d he\u2019d said, \u201cand she came to my studio and said, \u2019Hey, I\u2019ve got this title \u201cMy Church.\u201d I said, \u2019Oh, that\u2019s interesting. What does that mean?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said, ;When I\u2019m in the car driving and listening to music, it moves me. I feel like that\u2019s kind of my version of church.\u2019 It literally just hit me, and I go \u2019Can I get a hallelujah?\u2019 We just started writing the chorus. An hour and a half later it was done. The vocal that\u2019s on the radio is the one I recorded that day as the demo.\u201d The song went on to become Morris\u2019 debut, breakout hit in 2016.<\/p>\n

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