When Danielle Bradbery set out to make her second album she knew she had a lot to say and wanted to try her hand at writing her own songs.  She ended up co-writing seven of the ten songs on the album and she says, “I didn’t have any experience of songwriting before. So going into it, I was kind of afraid and nervous – so nervous to go into my first couple of writes. Cause at first I was like, ‘Oh my God, I have to open up to these people I’ve never met before. What are they going to think of my secrets that I’m scared to share?’  Cause I knew I wanted to share them because I wanted to talk about the realness and everything and be honest, but at first I was very afraid and so I would just go along with whatever.”

In the beginning when Danielle would meet with some of Nashville’s best writers, she would just soak up as much as she could about songwriting and use it as a learning experience. She says, “It was really cool to just learn how they do things and know what they have written all the way from Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood. And it was scary at first but I’m starting to get the hang of it now. But I think I’ll always be learning something new.”

While she may still have a lot to learn, Danielle managed to write some fantastic songs for her album, including her latest single, “Worth It.”

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“I didn’t have any experience of songwriting before. So going into it, I was kind of afraid and nervous – so nervous to go into my first couple of writes. Cause at first I was like, ‘Oh my God, I have to open up to these people I’ve never met before. What are they going to think of my secrets that I’m scared to share?’  Cause I knew I wanted to share them because I wanted to talk about the realness and everything and be honest, but at first I was very afraid and so I would just go along with whatever. And it was more of the learning core of everything in the beginning.  And as I met these writers and got in the room with those same writers again a couple of months or a year later, it was really cool to just learn how they do things and know what they have written all the way from Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood. And it was scary at first but I’m starting to get the hang of it now. But I think I’ll always be learning something new.”