Before Riley Green moved to Nashville and signed his record deal, he got some valuable advice from fellow artist Corey Smith. Riley says, “He told me to do as much as I could on my own before I did anything with anybody else. I mean that was very helpful.”
Rather than reaching out to other people when he first got to Nashville to help move his career along, Riley says, “I tried to concentrate on the things that I could control, and that was what songs I put out, if my writing got better, how my live show was, and that got better. You know, with me spending more time writing and trying to write better songs and me getting a band together that was all kind of working toward the same goal, that’s what I think I can really attest my success to is that I worked on things I could work on and they got better.”
Once Riley was ready he signed his deal with BMLG Records, and now he has his debut single, “There Was This Girl,” sitting in the top 15 on the charts and he’s working on a full album to release later this year.
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“Corey Smith was pretty helpful to me when I started out. He let me call and bounce some ideas off of him or songs off of him and stuff like that. And he told me to do as much as I could on my own before I did anything with anybody else. I mean that was very helpful. I mean it was one of the things where I came to Nashville a couple of years ago and it would have been easy for me to really start trying to get a record deal to enter a publishing deal or whatever but I tried to concentrate on the things that I could control, and that was what songs I put out, if my writing got better, how my live show was, and that got better. You know with me spending more time writing and trying to write better songs and me getting a band together that was all kind of working toward the same goal, that’s what I think I can really attest my success to is that I worked on things I could work on and they got better.”