How has songwriting changed since 1992?
When I first moved up here, it seemed more of a tighter-knit community. …Today, it seems a little more spread out. There were so many labels back then, and all the rosters were full, and a lot more writers signed deals. It got to be more about money than music, so to speak. What inspired “Waitin’ on a Woman”? I had that title written down in my book for a year at least. I wanted to write with my buddy Don Sampson. I heard about a guy I used to work with who was in the hospital and on his deathbed. I called him and asked, ‘Where’s your wife at?’ He answered, ‘I told her to go on home.’ After I hung up, I realized the good Lord said, ‘Here is what you need to write that song about.’ I talked to Don about it, and his wife’s dad had just died, and he said, ‘Yeah, big Herb is gonna be up there waiting on a woman, too.’ We wrote it faster than anything we had ever written. How did it find its way to Brad Paisley? Don writes for Brad’s company, Sea Gayle. Brad put it on his Time Well Wasted a
