Daily Discovery: Cody Brooks, “Dirty”

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August 30, 2018 2:56 pm

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ARTIST: Cody Brooks

SONG: “Dirty”

BIRTHDATE: Aug 3rd

HOMETOWN: Nashville

CURRENT LOCATION: Nashville

AMBITIONS: To give back to music what it has given to me.

TURN-OFFS: Insecure Arrogance, Industry Red-Tape, Direct Overhead Lighting

TURN-ONS: Honesty, Perfectly Executed Lies, Runs in a Woman’s Stockings

DREAM GIG: My dream gig is the very next gig I get to perform. I spend all my time dreaming for this next gig.

FAVORITE LYRIC: As of today….”Hard to save for a rainy day when it’s always raining” Ed Brooks (my father)

CRAZIEST PERSON I KNOW: Yours Truly

SONG I WISH I WROTE: “Rambling Man” Hank Williams Sr

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Harry Houdini, Miley Cyrus, Muhammad Ali, Quintin Taratino and Sacagawea

I WROTE THIS SONG: Dirty-From start to finish, it took 60 minutes to write this song on a 135 year old farmhouse floor. My guitar from 1929 was out of tune and as life likes it, it accidentally created the main melodic hook for the song “Dirty.” As far as the inspiration for the song… It’s as old as man.