David Nail’s Urban Connection

David Nail’s current hit is “Whatever She’s Got.”  David told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that he didn’t write the song, but it instantly appealed to him: “I’d been searching for a song, I knew I wanted to do something different, but didn’t know what that ‘different’ was.  So we listened to a lot of songs, and when I heard this one, it was an instant impact, I just knew this was the perfect song, couldn’t get it out of my head.  Then I took it home to my wife, and her first reaction was ‘This is it, is this yours? Are we gonna get this?’ Because Keith Urban had it on hold for a really long time, was going to cut it, and we came in and he felt sorry for us, and I told Keith at the CMA Awards, ‘In all reality I needed this more than you did.'”

The rest of the story is that “Whatever She’s Got” was party written by Jimmy Robbins, who writes for Keith Urban’s publishing company.  So Keith heard the song first.  But apparently he didn’t feel the song was right for him, or he felt he already had a song like that for his new album, so he let it go.  That was the story behind Blake Shelton’s hit, “Sure Be Cool If You Did.”  Once again, the song was partly written by Jimmy Robbins, and Keith heard it first. Keith told Lon, “It’s a great song, it didn’t feel like a song for me.  I’m not going to cut a song just because it’s a hit, it’s got to feel like a song for me.”  Jimmy Robbins also wrote Thomas Rhett’s “It Goes Like This” and “We Were Us,” the Keith Urban duet with Miranda Lambert.  Keith said this about Jimmy: “He hasn’t been in Nashville long, but he’s hittin’ them out of the park.”

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