Bruce Robison and Radney Foster
By Ken Paulson
— The Texas songwriter sessions are always a highlight of the Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival in Nashville and tonight was no exception.
Radney Foster, Wade Bowen, Jon Randall and Bruce Robison showcased their best work and biggest hits at 3rd and Lindsley. Songwriters aren’t always adept vocalists, but all four were first-rate and often disarming performers.
Foster asked the audience if it wanted a new or old song, and the crowd predictably called for a classic. Foster delivered with “Just Call Me Lonesome.”
Foster noted that the first song written with a new collaborator is typically a throwaway, but “I’m In” was the first song he wrote with Georgia Middleman. He said that both knew they had something special.
Randall’s “Whiskey Lullaby” was a stunner. He joked afterward that there’s “nothing like a double-suicide sing-along.”
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