{"id":1317194,"date":"2019-12-10T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815505"},"modified":"2019-12-10T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:30:34","slug":"the-warren-brothers-share-their-pull-over-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/the-warren-brothers-share-their-pull-over-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warren Brothers Share Their Pull-Over Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685913?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n11m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Just about every songwriter has had one of these moments. The kind when a song hits you so hard that you just can\u2019t keep your car on the road. You are forced to pull over, and then ultimately, you have to move to Nashville. <\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s how the <a href=\"https:\/\/warrenbrothers.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Brothers<\/a>\u2019 Brett Warren described the feeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery songwriter who has moved to Nashville, really, has that one song that made them move there,\u201d he told the capacity crowd at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta\u2019s Little Five Points neighborhood last week. \u201cFor me, I was living in Tampa, I was 25 years old, and I was driving down the beach boulevard and I remember hearing Bonnie Raitt\u2019s \u2019I Can\u2019t Make You Love Me.\u2019 I just pulled over to side of the road. Left my foot on the brake. Kept the car in drive. And just sat there staring out front window in front of Indian Rocks Beach. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that moment, I knew I had to move to Nashville.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nW9Cu6GYqxo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nW9Cu6GYqxo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>His goal ever since, he said, is to write songs that make people pull over to the side of road. <\/p>\n<p>Brett and his brother Brad did move to Nashville in 1995, inspired by Raitt and maybe a little bit by the songwriters of that 1991 tune, Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin. Both men are well-known country hitmakers and members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n<p>When they first arrived in Nashville, the Warren Brothers started out as a artists. And then from 2005-2006, they were the stars of their own CMT series <em>Barely Famous<\/em>. But as they spent more and more time on the road opening for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, they realized their true calling was songwriting. \u201cOur songs always did better when other people were singing them,\u201d Brett joked. <\/p>\n<p>Their acoustic set, opening for songwriting legend Tom Douglas, started with McGraw\u2019s \u201cHighway Don\u2019t Care\u201d and ended with his \u201cFelt Good on My Lips.\u201d But they also shared songs they\u2019d penned for Toby Keith, Keith Urban and Blake Shelton. <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the McGraw songs that always seem to shine, even when they\u2019ve got a roomful of music lovers on the verge of tears. That\u2019s how it felt when they shared the story behind \u201cIf You\u2019re Reading This.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole song is a letter written from a soldier back to his family, when he\u2019s going out on dangerous mission,\u201d they explained about the song that was inspired by a magazine story they\u2019d read about war casualties. \u201cIt was Tim\u2019s idea to make it a letter telling people what you want them to know. Just in case you couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2XoRQTERQdI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2XoRQTERQdI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>A few weeks after they\u2019d written it, McGraw debuted the ballad live on the stage of the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards. He has since gone on to record more than 20 songs written by the Warren Brothers.<br \/><!--FacebookMarkup--> <\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815505\/the-warren-brothers-share-their-pull-over-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 11m ago Just about every songwriter has had one of these moments. The kind when a song hits you so hard that you just can\u2019t keep your car on the road. You are forced to pull over, and then ultimately, you have to move to Nashville. 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