![]() And I’m more like, “Gosh, I don’t think I’m an artist, because I don’t really wanna go perform. A lot of people move to Nashville because they want to perform, and so then they learn how to write so that they have something to go perform. Singing has always been the last piece of the puzzle for me. I think I put four songs on Apple temporarily. It wasn’t really a project it was more me in development, trying to figure out if I was a writer or an artist. You had a featured appearance on a song you wrote for Walker Hayes a few years ago, but there’s not much more than that, at least in recent years, is there?Ībout 10 years ago, around the time of “ The Voice”, I had a handful of tunes that I released. People know your name and your track record, but not many people have really heard your voice. Galyon - a Variety Hitmaker of the Month a year ago at this time - spoke from her home in Nashville, right before getting on a plane back to her other home in Sterling, Kansas, where she summers with husband and fellow songwriter Rodney Clawson and their two kids. 1 but at putting her own lyrical voice in the top position for the first time in her career. Released on her own Songs and Daughters label, which is otherwise dedicated to young female artists like Hailey Whitters, “Firstborn” is not aimed at giving her a tenth No. It’s clear these songs were crafted for her and her alone from the opening lines, which reference everything from her not knowing her biological father to the age she lost her virginity. Galyon had some of her famous songwriter friends - including Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, Hillary Lindsey, Kelsea Ballerini, co-producer Jimmy Robbins and more - out to her hometown of Sterling, Kansas (or occasionally on Zoom) last year to help with the writing, but unlike the writers’ room situations she was previously accustomed to, all these collaborations were in the service of helping her craft a musical memoir. And I felt like I owed it to myself to serve myself” - along with, she says, owing it to her two children, who she realized might have to piece together her real personality from the bits and pieces of it that snuck into the hits she wrote for others. ![]() “My whole career, I’ve been of service, to serving others in their art. “This is a way for me to take back true creativity for me, and not be at the mercy of anyone else’s process,” she tells Variety. ![]() (The exceptions are “Consequences,” a song she co-penned for Camila Cabello’s first album, and “Boy,” previously a Lee Brice hit, both 2018 songs she considers to reflect her own journey, as well.) But two decades into her Nashville career, the Kansas native has a debut album in the form of “Firstborn,” an album of almost entirely new and autobiographical material. 1 country songs, including Miranda Lambert’s “Automatic” and Dan + Shay’s “Tequila” - there was nothing automatic about making the shift from hit tunesmith to (basically) first-time recording artist. For Nicolle Galyon - a BMI songwriter of the year honoree and co-writer of nine No.
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