Jake Worthington On Why He’s Sometimes Scared To Cut A Sad Country Song

Can’t blame an artist for not wanting to sing something into existence.

Jake Worthington stopped by the podcast to talk about his sophomore album When I Write The Song, how he loves sad country songs, walking up and down Broadway and listening to the live bands, how Nashville has never lost its magic, why he still believes in making a full and complete album, how he met his wife deer hunting, his love for Zach Top and the traditional country revival, being from Texas and his influences there and so much more.

And in case you didn’t know, Jake Worthington knows a thing or two about penning a sad country song. He’s got plenty of his own – like “State You Left Me In” – and he feels as though sad songs truly have a purpose, as he explained:

“Everybody gets the blues. Ain’t no way around it. Everybody gets them… not everybody shakes them, but everybody is gonna get them every now and then. That’s what it’s there for. Some of us are more drawn to them, and I’m one of them.”

According to Jake, he doesn’t always set out to write the sad country songs. In fact, sometimes it feels more like they find him. We asked if he does anything in particular to craft his more somber tracks, and he said that the process is often dependent on a couple of different factors:

“For me, it just depends on the day. I guess it’s what good title you got? My favorite songs that I’ve been able to walk into are just by writing into them. No precursor. No title. Nothing. You write it line by line like a record, and by the end of it, you are high-fiving.”

And the conversation prompted us to ask Jake Worthington if he’s ever wrote a sad song and then backed off of it, or tried to rewrite it to make the track a little less melancholy. The country artist explained that he doesn’t often do rewrites, but he can remember a couple of sad songs that he’s been responsible for that scared him a bit:

“Some songs have scared me to cut. I’ve been scared of songs before… scared of it coming true. (Scared and) not wanting to be that honest. That doesn’t mean that everything that I cut is un-honest.

But you can’t be afraid to write them. They are just momentary weaknesses. That’s all they are. Them things that you can’t always say, or maybe shouldn’t say.”

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It certainly sounds like there’s an art – and an unexplainable formula – to crafting the perfect sad country song. Some that Worthington has thought up may never see the light of day, or at the very least won’t be included in his discography. And to hear more on that, make sure to download the podcast on Apple Podcasts by searching “Whiskey Riff Raff” or click here.

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