One of country music's most prolific, imaginative, and successful songwriters, Bobby Braddock has written #1 songs in five different decades including chart-toppers "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," "Golden Ring," "I Feel Like Loving You Again," "Texas Tornado," "Time Marches On," "I Wanna Talk About Me," and "People Are Crazy," among others. He co-wrote George Jones’s “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” which has been repeatedly voted Greatest Country Song of All Time, and was the CMA Song Of The Year in both 1980 and ’81.

 

He penned hits in the '70's for artists such as The Statler Brothers, Tammy Wynette, Nancy Sinatra, Willie Nelson, Tanya Tucker, and Jerry Lee Lewis; and more recently for Toby Keith, Tracey Lawrence, Mark Chestnut, and Blake Shelton, the latter of whom he discovered and also produced. 

 

Awards & Recognition:

       • 13 #1 Hits

       • 1981 Music City News Songwriter of the Year

       • 1981 Nashville Songwriters Association Song of the Year

       • 1981 Inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

       • 2011 Inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame

 

Braddock recently released his memoirs, "Bobby Braddock: A Life on Nashville's Music Row” recounting his experiences since the mid-1960’s in the heart of country music.