{"id":1317570,"date":"2020-01-07T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1816312"},"modified":"2020-01-07T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:05:19","slug":"this-is-what-happens-when-morgan-evans-writes-a-chorus-in-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/this-is-what-happens-when-morgan-evans-writes-a-chorus-in-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Happens When Morgan Evans Writes a Chorus in Five Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:675425?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 \/>\n39m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6D3VB7AoGE?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=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6D3VB7AoGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is more than one way to write a great country song. There is the really, really long arduous way, the very, very quick way, and all the ways in between. But for Morgan Evans, sometimes the first chorus to pop into his head is the best way to get his message across. <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/bulletins.billboard.com\/country\/country_update_0106.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new interview<\/a> with <em>Billboard Country Update<\/em>, Evans shared the story behind writing his new dobro-heavy song, \u201cDiamonds.\u201d Inspired, obviously, by his wife Kelsea Ballerini. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can sweat over a chorus for like four hours, or you can write it in five minutes. It\u2019s funny \u2014 the five-minute ones are usually better than the four-hour ones, and that was the perfect example,\u201d Evans said of the guts of this song: <em>I love you like a diamond\/And diamonds are forever\/You know it when you find one\/You never let go, ever\/People spend their whole damn life trying to find that shine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(The \u201cA diamond is forever\u201d line was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaaa.org\/timeline-event\/diamond-forever-unforgettable-de-beers-tagline-thats-still-shining\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">originally written<\/a> as the tag line for an advertising campaign for jewelry retailer DeBeers back in 1948.)<\/p>\n<p>Evans wrote the new song around Valentine\u2019s Day last year, along with Chris DeStefano and Evan Bogart, and recorded it with a studio band instead of playing all the parts himself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was important for me to just start from scratch on this one. We certainly sat in the control room and played them the demo, and I remember a couple of the guys are like, \u2018Well, that sounds like you\u2019ve got a record there. What do you want us to do?\u2019 That kind of set the challenge maybe for them, and they just killed it,\u201d he recalled, adding that the song only has four chords, but it is a six-chord progression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the order that they\u2019re in, it makes a huge difference,\u201d Evans said. \u201cIt just doesn\u2019t sound like anything that I\u2019ve done before.\u201d<\/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\/1816312\/this-is-what-happens-when-morgan-evans-writes-a-chorus-in-five-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 39m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. There is more than one way to write a great country song. There is the really, really long arduous way, the very, very quick way, and all the ways in between. But for Morgan Evans, sometimes the first chorus to pop into his head is the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 21:11:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}