CURRENT SINGLE: “If It Wasn’t for Trucks”
When Riley Green first started building his country music career, unlike a lot of hopeful artists, he didn’t immediately move to Nashville, and he says, “One thing that I tell people a lot helped me in my career, especially songwriting, was me not moving to Nashville.”
That’s not to say Riley’s not glad he eventually did move to Nashville, because it helped his career grow beyond the foundation he had laid while still living in Alabama. He got his record deal, his publishing deal and has met a lot of great people and connections in Nashville, but Riley says, “Something about me staying home – I don’t think kept me grounded is the right way to say it, but it just reminded me of what I was writing about, as opposed to being up here and you get caught up in what’s successful on the radio and what song is on this chart and that. And you start trying to be somethin’ else.”
Fortunately, Riley had the chance to figure out who he is as an artist and what kind of music he wants to make before he got to Nashville, where it would be easy to listen to a lot of other people’s opinions or copy what he’s seeing and hearing that seems to be successful.
Riley Green – not moving to Nashville :25
“One thing that I tell people a lot helped me in my career, especially songwriting, was me not moving to Nashville. Now granted, there’s a million things that have happened for me since I’ve been here, and the people I’ve met, you can’t trade that for anything. But something about me staying home – I don’t think kept me grounded is the right way to say it, but it just reminded me of what I was writing about, as opposed to being up here and you get caught up in what’s successful on the radio and what song is on this chart and that, and you start trying to be somethin’ else.”