New Scotty McCreery Song Titles, Songwriter Scoop!

More scoop on songs Scotty McCreery is recording for his debut album! Check out the titles of 2 songs Scotty has on hold and comments from a few of country music’s hitmakers of the moment about Scotty and the possibility of making his record!

Songwriters Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip, and Dallas Davidson of the Peach Pickers (arguably country’s most hitmaking songwriters right now) spoke to the Taste Of Country blog about possibly landing some cuts on Scotty’s debut album. Akins confirmed that Scotty’s likely to include a song he wrote with Lee Thomas Miller called “You Make That Look Good” on his album:

“It’s a song we wrote two years ago, ” Akins reveals to Taste of Country. “I don’t watch a lot of ‘American Idol, ’ but my mom would called me every week and said, ‘Are you watching ‘American Idol?” I’d be like, ‘No, I’m not at home right now.’ She said, ‘You’ve got to watch this young kid on there named Scotty. I think he’s going to win.’ So I sent her a text the other day that said, ‘Hey, I think I’m getting a Scotty McCreery cut, ’ and she was more excited about that than my cuts by Blake [Shelton] or Joe Nichols or anybody else!”

Akins also talked about a song that’s cowritten by his son Thomas Rhett Akins that Scotty’s put on hold. We know that Akins, Jr. confirmed just a few days ago that Scotty had recorded one of his songs and it looks like the title of the song is “Write Your Number On My Hand.”

It looks like Scotty’s numbers and buzz are making his project very attractive to the hitmakers. Ben Hayslip confirms he’s got a couple songs on hold for Scotty’s album and says:

“That’s definitely a big project to be on, ” says Hayslip. “The cool thing to me is watching this kid on TV every week, then reading an article where somebody asked him if he was familiar with any songwriters in Nashville, and he said the Peach Pickers. He said that he was flattered that we were pitching our songs to him. I know that we’re flattered that he knows who we are. We’re all hoping to be a part of it.”

Dallas Davidson adds:

He’s obviously real country, and we don’t have any problem with that, ” adds Davidson. “He’s a tough one to get on because everybody in town’s trying to get on him. We definitely have all been working together or individually to get on his project. We think that’s the project to be on right now. He’s an ‘American Idol’ winner and a country boy and a good kid, too. We always want to be on good ole boys’ records!

Check out the full article at TOC for some funny comments from the writers about how their friends and family are really excited about them landing songs on Scotty’s album, too. There’s also info on just how hot this trio is on the charts right now.

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Also known as Windmills, I cover country music news and live televised country events, in addition to recapping ABC's 'Nashville.' Additionally, I occasionally do long-form chart analysis that has been cited by Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, The Guardian, The New Republic, NPR, and more.