Most people have heard of writer’s block. Most of the time it is related to people who write novels or stories. However, Jon Pardi shares it can happen to songwriters too.
Jon recalls the retreat in northern California when he, Luke Laird and Rhett Akins spent quite a lot of time staring at each other. The finally Rhett blurted out a line that would become the song.
“‘Tequila Little Time’ was written on a song retreat in NorCal. It was the last day of the retreat and we were just co-staring. We were doing some co-staring for like three hours, so like miserable. It’s just what songwriters go through. You don’t have to be a songwriter to know this feeling. Just think of trying to write something down and you can’t write it down. And then all of a sudden, Rhett was like, ‘Tequila little time … with you.’ And I was like, ‘Yes!’ and then we wrote it in an hour.”
We’re glad that Rhett was able to break the writer’s block for the group because we love what they created after. Listen for “Tequila Little Time” by Jon Pardi on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.
Have you ever experienced writer’s block? How did you get past it?
By: Buck Stevens
