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Scotty McCreery Reveals How He Mastered Songwriting · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It's got a curious
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Speaker 1: forwards day successful career as a country singer ever since
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Speaker 1: winning American Idol a decade ago, and over the years,
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Speaker 1: he's evolved from being known primarily as a singer into
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Speaker 1: a singer songwriter, with more co writing credits on each
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Speaker 1: album leading up to his new LP called Same Truck.
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Speaker 1: He had a hand in penning most of the songs,
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Speaker 1: and he tells Songwriter Universe it stems from hard work, saying,
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Speaker 1: first I had to get to Nashville and try to
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Speaker 1: be a sponge and learned from the best songwriters in
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Speaker 1: the world. Even before I was on Idol, I wrote songs,
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Speaker 1: although I hope they never see the light of day.
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Speaker 1: Writing was something I worked on and tried to hone
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Speaker 1: in on, and I've gotten more comfortable with it, writing
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Speaker 1: songs from the heart and personal experience and not being
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Speaker 1: shy in the writer's room. I think that's helped a lot.
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Speaker 1: It's gott His albums Same Truck and single of the
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Speaker 1: same name are out now. That's Direct from Hollywood,