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Nate Smith on Taking a Swing at a Power Ballad With ‘Fix What You Didn’t Break’: ‘Guys Are More Sensitive Than We Get Credit’

This week's Makin' Tracks highlights the writing and recording process behind Nate Smith's song "Fix What You Didn't Break"

Similarly, artists typically develop future singles when their current releases are just beginning to grow, and many of their projections about follow-up material are educated guesses about how the already-finished songs might perform. They were joined by songwriters Ashley Gorley (“I Am Not Okay,” “Truck Bed”) and Taylor Phillips (“I Am Not Okay,” “Hurricane”) – the same team that authored “World On Fire,” which was just in its fourth charted week at the time on its way to becoming Smith’s second No. The opening lines came early: “I was a 10-year train wreck/ With a last-call longneck.” They captured a guy numbing his pain with alcohol, and Smith says they drew on a past relationship that he hasn’t talked much about publicly.

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