The year prior to Trent Harmon releasing his latest album, You Got ‘Em All,” he was caught in a bit of limbo with his record deal and had to wait for everything to get sorted out before he could begin making music and touring again.  During that time, the only musical thing he could really do was write songs and hope that one day he would be able to record them.  During that year of writing full-time, Trent says, “I think I thought that I was pretty tough. You know I could get up and do this and the last thing that I had really tried to do and do well and it was an everyday thing was Idol.”

Competing on American Idol was tough, and then spending weeks on the road at a time visiting radio stations, sometimes multiple stations in multiple states in one day was tough, but Trent says, It was tough just to get up every day and do a 9 to 5 as a songwriter because I wasn’t being set up to do that but that was the cards I was dealt.  And so I figured out, you know what, okay I can do this for a year. This is part of paying your dues.”

Fortunately, that year of paying his dues through songwriting paid off for Trent, and he was able to fill his debut album with mostly songs that he had co-written during that year of being a full-time songwriter, including his latest single, and the title track of his debut album, “You Got ‘Em All.”

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“I think I thought that I was pretty tough. You know I could get up and do this and the last thing that I had really tried to do and do well and it was an everyday thing was Idol.  And then right after Idol, within a month, we did almost a year of radio tour.  And anybody that’s been in the industry knows that a radio tour is tough, and then Idol right behind that was tough. It was tough just to get up every day and do a 9 to 5 as a songwriter because I wasn’t being set up to do that but that was the cards I was dealt.  And so I figured out, you know what, okay I can do this for a year. This is part of paying your dues.”