When you listen to Danielle Bradbery’s latest song, “Goodbye Summer,” it has a light, sort of bouncy summer romance vibe to it, so it might surprise some people to know that the song was written by four guys, including Thomas Rhett, Thomas’ dad Rhett Akins, Jaren Johnston from The Cadillac Three, and producer Julian Bunetta. Thomas Rhett recorded the demo and considered it for his own album, but ultimately decided the song would be better suited for someone else. Danielle says, “It is crazy that it’s fallen into a girl’s hands after all the guys writing it and hanging out with it for a while. But I was super excited that they chose me.”
What almost seems serendipitous about Danielle recording the song is that she got ahold of a copy of Thomas Rhett singing “Goodbye Summer” and she says, “Before I even knew that I was going to cut it, before it was even a thing. I lived with it for a while. I had the demo of Thomas Rhett singing it and I actually loved it so much that I would just play it in my car, in my house cleaning, and it was just background music that I loved and I naturally fell in love with the song. And so when they gave me the okay to record it for my second album, I was super excited about it.”
Ultimately, Danielle and her producer thought the song would be great as a duet, so they re-recorded the song featuring Thomas Rhett more prominently, and changed the title from “Hello Summer,” which it was called on Danielle’s album, to “Goodbye Summer.”
Danielle Bradbery – four guys wrote Goodbye Summer :54
“It is funny to talk about the single ‘Goodbye Summer,’ written by four guys – Thomas Rhett, his dad Rhett, Jaren Johnston from Cadillac Three and this amazing producer Julian Bunetta. And it is crazy that it’s fallen into a girl’s hands after all the guys writing it and hanging out with it for a while. But I was super excited that they chose me. It was obviously presented to Thomas Rhett, ‘Would you mind if Danielle cut this?’ And what was crazy is before I even knew that I was going to cut it, before it was even a thing. I lived with it for a while. I had the demo of Thomas Rhett singing it and I actually loved it so much that I would just play it in my car, in my house cleaning, and it was just background music that I loved and I naturally fell in love with the song. And so when they gave me the okay to record it for my second album, I was super excited about it.”