The Love Junkies have announced that they will be debuting a new show on Apple Music Country – Love Junkies Radio. The first episode of which is now available to listen to.
The ultimate songwriting trio – Lori McKenna, Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey – have debuted a new show on Apple Music Country – Love Junkies Radio. In the debut episode, they share behind the scenes stories about working with Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill, and talk about the first song they wrote together, before playing their favourite songs from their catalogue.
The trio met several years, as they talk about on the show about forming the trio and how the name came about, Liz Rose sharing, ‘I think we got in the middle of a song maybe and we were just writing about love or something. And Hillary I think you’re the one that said “We’re just Love Junkies.” Or one of y’all said it and I jumped up and went, of course, “Oh boy, let’s start a whole writing group, call us the Love Junkies” and then I think we googled to see if it existed. [laughs]’
The trio have had immense success, writing for the likes of Little Big Town – talking on the show about writing their first song together, Liz sharing, ‘I just remember thinking, “this is so magical. The three of us…this is gonna be so cool. Please don’t ever leave.” I wanted to lock y’all in forever and it’s so fun when an idea comes like that and this friendship is born out of a song.’ The trio then dive into working with Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift on ‘Fearless.’
HILLARY: I was scared…you know what? When she walked in. I was not “fearless.” Yeah. But she walked into my house one day to write and we wrote a song. I mean Taylor is so obviously incredibly talented and so fast…
LORI: Such a great writer.
HILLARY: And I probably— So great. In like 45 minutes and I’m like “Holy moly, what just happened?” And then I thought she was gonna say “Okay, well maybe I’ll see you later” or “maybe we’ll get back together” but she said “Hey will you check this out and let me know what you think?” And she played a snippet of “Fearless.” And I said “Oh my gosh that’s awesome,” and she said “Yeah, me and Liz Rose started it, do you want to help me, help us finish it?” And I said “Well, does Liz know about this? Because I don’t know Liz Rose and you know, Liz Rose is the bomb. Like I don’t want to do anything to piss off Liz Rose.” She goes “Aww she doesn’t know about it but she won’t care.” And I said “Taylor, Taylor are you sure?” And I was scared to death Liz. I was so scared—
LIZ: Really?
HILLARY: I was so scared you were gonna hate me because I did that.
LIZ: No, that’s crazy! I thought it was the coolest thing and the other thing was that, you know something like that happens in the moment, it’s gotta happen the way it’s supposed to in the moment because think about it. That song might not have even made the record had y’all not finished it.
