Cole Swindell Pens Emotional Letter to Nashville
From thanking the industry and the fans for all they do to getting real about the emotional loss of his father, Swindell opens up about his life throughout the past few years in his candid account.
Cole Swindell gets candid about his music career and his personal life in a letter penned to The Huffington Post called “Dear Nashville.”
Starting off fresh from the beginning, Swindell sets readers right into the mix of it all as he describes his first day in Music City to the first few whirlwind months of signing a publishing deal and trying to make it on his own as a country artist. Opening up about his anxious feelings and his attachment to all of the newness he experienced during that portion of his life, Swindell did not hold back on the raw descriptions of his complete and utter excitement over all of the opportunity waiting for him throughout the city.
As success began to bubble up for the young country newcomer at the time, he explains in the letter how he never knew that one random accident could swerve him off his career path so hard. Putting his honest feelings about the vulnerability and the grieving times to paper, Swindell gives so much credit to the country music community who kept him going and made him feel like family, even in times of great sadness and loss.
“’Country’ means a lot more to me than the sound coming out of your speakers. To me it’s a big family. It’s how you treat others, how you were raised. It’s lyrics that can change your life. All that. We are all getting to do what we love and that’s because somebody took a chance on us. I remember calling radio stations as a kid, annoying the DJ’s to play my favorite songs from George Strait, Reba, Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney and every other artist that I still love to this day. Now, to think there are kids doing the same for my music is mind blowing,” he writes in an excerpt from the letter.
The emotional letter goes on about how incredibly thankful Swindell is for all of the support anyone has ever given him and his genuinity shines through as he praises all of the hard work and personal memories they gave to him as he released his hit, “You Should Be Here.”
Check out more of what Swindell had to say in his letter to Nashville for The Huffington Post HERE.
