Jim Beavers

Surviving the Music Industry

Proud Texan, Jim Beavers sits across a computer screen with host Brandon Harrington to talk about his journey from disbanded Son's Of The Desert frontman to the hit songwriter that he is today. Jim confesses that he's always been a songwriter but running a record label was the vocation of choice. It's hard to imagine that the pen behind hit songs like Toby Keith's "Red Solo Cup," Gary Allan's "Watching Airplanes," Luke Bryan's "Drink A Beer," and Dierks Bentley's "5-1-5-0," "How Am I Doin," "Sideways", and "Am I The Only One" never thought the life of a songwriter would be for him. Jim working for Capitol in its prime with Garth Brooks has seen a few things and decided that after being "kicked around" he would much rather get knocked around as a songwriter. The history and stories that Jim tells are hilarious with the truth behind them. In this episode, Jim shares the history and reason why country music and most bands don't do well, the stories and irony behind some of his hits, comedy and its place in music or even lack of it in today's country music, and the power of brain sharing the mundane to create the extraordinary.