Nashville’s best-kept secret has long been that most of country music’s biggest hits are written by a Shakespearean club of Music Row songsmiths who, operating behind the scenes, have turned out many of its most beloved classics over the past fifty years.

Volume 2 of the first-of-its-kind Nashville Songwriter series offers country music fans even more behind-the-scenes VIP-level access, revealing the first totally authorized telling of the true stories that inspired hundreds of #1 hits by a roster of the biggest multiplatinum country superstars. Exclusively interviewed in individual chapters are many of today’s hottest songwriters-thirty-three in all-discussing over three hundred #1 hits, including classics as well as many of today’s hottest from the likes of Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, George Strait, Florida/Georgia Line, Sam Hunt, Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Little Big Town, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Thomas Rhett, Thomas Rhett, Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, George Jones, Zac Brown Band, Toby Keith, Cole Swindell, Johnny Lee, Loretta Lynn, Jerry Reed, Vince Gill, Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard, the Dixie Chicks, Rodney Atkins, Rhett Akins, Luke Bryan, Dustin Lynch, Alan Jackson, Lee Anne Womack, Martina McBride, Gary Evans, and many more.