![]() No, all these songs are ours before they’re anyone else’s now.” “We had spent so long trying to become successful songwriters, once it shifted into us being the artists, it was hard to shut off (the songwriting) part of our brain. ”It did take some time growing into it and realizing we had to own it,” Ramsey says. Old Dominion’s success, which kept on rolling in 2021 with their fourth album, Time, Tequila & Therapy, has led to a transformation from being behind-the-scenes hitmakers to performers on stages where the lights are brighter and the music is louder. It’s really a gift when people share what it means (to them).” Yyou make your music and put it out into the world and you don’t get to see first-hand how people can use that music to help them. “Couples have come up to us a lot and said, ‘We’re together because of that song.’ ![]() “We actually heard a lot of stories about that song being a good matchmaking song,” Ramsey says of Break Up With Him, which has a video that pays tribute to the concert scene in the movie Back to the Future. and Canada in 2015 2017’s No Such Thing as a Broken Heart and 2019’s One Man Band, which reached the top 20 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and was the Academy of Country Music’s song of the year in 2020, could be just as popular when they sang them. The success of those songs helped give Old Dominion a shot at performing their own tunes, and they found out tracks such as Break Up With Him, which went platinum in the U.S. “We were playing covers but they were actually our songs.” ![]() “Lots of new artists, when you’re up-and-coming, you have to play cover songs to keep fans interested in your show, and we were always able to lean on our songs we had written for other people to fill that spot,” Ramsey says. 1 hit that Rosen had a songwriting hand in and Save It For a Rainy Day, a Kenny Chesney hit in 2014 that Tursi says began with a melody he thought up while singing in the shower. ![]() Their songs quickly became hits for other artists, such as Say You Do, a Ramsey and Rosen co-write that Dierks Bentley turned into a hit in 2014 Sangria, a Blake Shelton No. The success of the songs they wrote for other country stars helped give Old Dominion a shot at performing their own tunes. “It’s definitely something we’ve been thinking about on this tour, the size of the venues and our setlist is full of hit songs and we used to be playing to empty rooms with no hit songs at all. ”Quite a long road to get to where we are,” Ramsey says. Those early songwriting sessions and nightclub appearances showed the country-music power brokers that the group’s songwriters - Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Brad Tursi, Geoff Sprung and Whit Sellers - have what it takes. Old Dominion, who have been named the Country Music Association’s vocal group of the year for the last five years, take the stage at Winnipeg’s downtown arena on Saturday night. Five songwriters who first got together in Nashville to test their own music have become the latest award-winning act to join the country-music caravan to Canada Life Centre. ![]()
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