Jim McBride
A veteran songwriter, Jim McBride was inducted into the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2017.
Jim McBride moved to Nashville from Huntsville, Alabama in the early 80s — after Conway Twitty took his song "A Bridge That Just Won't Burn" to No. 2 on the country charts. Since then, Jim has been awarded 14 BMI and ASCAP awards, including the 1994 ASCAP Song of the Year for "Chattahoochee," co-written and recorded by Alan Jackson.
Jim's songs have been recorded by over 100 major label artists including Johnny Cash, George Jones, Reba McEntire, Willie Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Alabama, Toby Keith, Crystal Gayle, Trace Adkins, and Luke Bryan.
Jim McBride was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017. During an interview with Billboard Magazine, he said, "When you come to Nashville to be a songwriter, I don't think you are thinking about being in the Hall of Fame. You are living song to song. After you've been there for 20-25-30 years, then you can look over your body of work, and then maybe you could start thinking about it. But you know how tough it is, you don't really think about it — at least I never did. You go from being a new kid in town to a grizzled veteran, it seems like a very short time."
