A tribute to Randy Travis provided the emotional highlight at the ASCAP Country Awards in Nashville, where the singer was being feted with a special award, as were Hillary Lindsey and Brothers Osbo…
. “We’re their straight men tonight,” Danson explained on the red carpet. Steenburgen said the couple’s now-close friendship with the brothers started through her songwriting collaboration with John Osborne’s wife, independent country artist Lucie Silvas, John Osborne’s wife. “One night Lucie, John and I wrote a song that we’re actually turning into a little animated film for the 50anniversary of Earth Day that is coming up.
Added Steenburgen, “I haven’t told them this yet, but on the flight on the way down, here the flight attendant came up to me to ask why I was going to Nashville. She was in Las Vegas for all three of those concerts and was there when the shooter unfortunately gunned down so many people. She said, ‘One of the ways I’ve been healing from it is that I made a playlist of my favorite music of the three days, including so much Brothers Osborne, and that’s what’s gotten me through it.
“We wrote a lot of bad songs,” he insisted. “We still do. I’m gonna tell you the words of one of those songs. This song was a song we wrote called ‘Caveman.’ It’s a song that compared what we do as human beings to being a caveman.” He recited from memory some of the lyrics, to Rosen’s obvious embarrassment: “Drink beer, kill deer, find club, get girl, start fire, roll stone, back home… Bedrock till we drop, wake up, do again, like a caveman.
Little Big Town sang what has become a signature song for the quartet, “Girl Crush,” in co-writer Hillary Lindsey’s honor. Karen Fairchild joked that, now that Jennifer Aniston has joined Instagram, that left Lindsey and Ashley Gorley as the last two people in show business to assiduously avoid having a social media presence. “I started a Hillary Instagram tonight,” Fairchild said, “and it’s called If I Were Hillary Lindsey. And it says ‘fan account, unauthorized, by Karen Faitchild.
After accepting songwriter of the year for the seventh time, Gorley performed “Living” with the man who made it into a hit, Bentley. “‘Living’ is a special song to us,” he said. “It’s really one of the rare ones that we actually do try to live by in our own lives.
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