Zach Crowell is a songwriter and record producer, who was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Crowell is involved in a joint publishing agreement with Round Hill Music and Taperoom Music.[1]
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| Born | Nashville, Tennessee |
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Crowell has written/produced over 30 number one songs and is a three-time Grammy Award nominee.[2]
In 2012, he co-wrote and produced the song "Confe$$ions" on the Grammy Award-winning sixth studio album, Gravity by rapper Lecrae.[3][4]
In 2013, Crowell co-wrote and produced the song "Strong" for singer Will Hoge, which was featured as the theme song for a 2014 Chevrolet Silverado advertising campaign.[5] Crowell has also written and/or produced multiple number one songs including "Take Your Time", "House Party", and "Leave the Night On" for Sam Hunt, and "Where It's At" and "Hell of a Night" for Dustin Lynch. Additionally, Crowell co-wrote and produced the song "Cop Car" by Keith Urban along with having songs recorded by Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line and Cole Swindell.
In 2015, Crowell co-wrote and/or produced multiple number one songs for county music star Carrie Underwood's fifth studio album, Storyteller, including the songs "Heartbeat", "Church Bells", and "Dirty Laundry".
Crowell produced and co-wrote the 2017 song "Body Like a Back Road" for singer Sam Hunt.[6] The song set the all-time record at 34 weeks for the most time spent at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Selected discography
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| 2024 | Jelly Roll | Beautifully Broken | "I Am Not Okay" | Producer |
| "Winning Streak" | Producer | |||
| "Burning" |
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| "Heart of Stone" |
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| "I Am Not Okay" | Producer | |||
| "When the Drugs Don't Work" (with Ilsey) |
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| "Higher Than Heaven" (with Wiz Khalifa) |
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| "Liar" | Producer | |||
| "Grace" | Producer | |||
| "What It Takes" |
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| "Hey Mama" | Producer | |||
| "Time of Day" (with Machine Gun Kelly) |
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| "Take a Bow" (with Halsey) |
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| "Past Yesterday" (with Skylar Grey) |
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| Sam Hunt | Locked Up | "Locked Up" |
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| "Liberty" |
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| "Last Hurrah" | Producer | |||
| Madeline Merlo | One House Down (from the girl next door) | "Broken Heart Thing" |
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| "Bar Fight" | Producer | |||
| "Middle of the Bed" | Producer | |||
| "Good Grief" | Producer | |||
| "One House Down (from the girl next door)" | Producer | |||
| 2023 | Dan Shay | Bigger Houses | "Breakin' Up with a Broken Heart" | Writer |
| "Neon Cowgirl" | Writer | |||
| Old Dominion | Memory Lane | "Different About You" | Writer | |
| Dustin Lynch | Killed the Cowboy | "Killed the Cowboy" | Producer | |
| "Honky Tonk Heartbreaker" |
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| "George Strait Jr." | Producer | |||
| "Chevrolet" (featuring Jelly Roll) |
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| "If I Stop Drinkin'" | Producer | |||
| "Only Girl In This Town" | Producer | |||
| "Breakin' Up Down" |
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| "Trouble with This Truck" |
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| "Blue Lights" | Producer | |||
| "Lonestar" | Producer | |||
| "Listen to the Radio" | Producer | |||
| "Long Way Home" | Producer | |||
| Jelly Roll | Whitsitt Chapel | "Halfway to Hell" | Producer | |
| "Church" | Producer | |||
| "The Lost" | Producer | |||
| "Nail Me" | Producer | |||
| "Hold on Me" | Producer | |||
| "Kill a Man" | Producer | |||
| "Unlive" (featuring Yelawolf) |
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| "Save Me" (featuring Lainey Wilson) |
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| "Dancing with the Devil" |
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| "Hungover In a Church Pew" |
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| Madeline Merlo | TBA | "Same Car" |
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| "Tim Faith" | ||||
| Cole Swindell | Stereotype | "Broken" | Producer | |
| "Drinkaby" | Producer | |||
| Sam Hunt | TBA | "Start Nowhere" |
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| "Outskirts" |
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| "Walmart" |
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| "Women In My Life" |
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| 2022 | Russell Dickerson | Russell Dickerson | "God Gave Me a Girl" |
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| "All the Same Friends" |
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| "I Still Believe" | Writer | |||
| "Drink to This" | Writer | |||
| "Beers to the Summer" | Producer | |||
| Madeline Merlo | Slide | "Slide" |
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| "YOUNG-ish" |
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| "Girl Where He Grew Up" | Producer | |||
| "I Need a Drink" |
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| Cole Swindell | Stereotype | "She Had Me at Heads Carolina" | Producer | |
| "Never Say Never" (featuring Lainey Wilson) |
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| "I'm Gonna Let Her" | Producer | |||
| "How Is She" | Producer | |||
| "Girl Goes Crazy" | Producer | |||
| "Miss Wherever" | Producer | |||
| "Some Habits" | Producer | |||
| "Walk on Whiskey" | Producer | |||
| "Sayin' You Love Me" | Producer | |||
| Thomas Rhett | Where We Started | "Death Row" | Writer | |
| Dustin Lynch | Blue in the Sky | "Party Mode" | Producer | |
| "Thinking 'Bout You" (featuring MacKenzie Porter) |
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| "Stars Like Confetti" |
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| "Somethin' That Makes You Smile" | Producer | |||
| "Break It on a Beach" |
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| "Tequila on a Boat" (featuring Chris Lane) |
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| "Tennessee Trouble" | Producer | |||
| "Summer Never Ended" | Producer | |||
| "Back Road TN" | Producer | |||
| "Huntin' Land" (featuring Riley Green) |
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| "Pasenda" | Producer | |||
| "Not Every Cowboy" | Producer | |||
| Chris Janson | All In | "Bye Mom" | Producer | |
| "All In" |
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| "Keys to the Country" |
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| 2021 | Luke Bryan | Born Here Live Here Die Here | "Waves" | Writer |
| Thomas Rhett | Country Again: Side A | "Country Again" | Writer | |
| "Blame It on a Backroad" | Writer | |||
| Ryan Hurd | Pelago | "June, July, August" | Writer | |
| Scotty McCreery | Same Truck | "Same Truck" | Writer | |
| "Small Town Girl" | Writer | |||
| Brett Young | Weekends Look a Little Different These Days | "Weekends Look a Little Different These Days" | Writer | |
| 2020 | Kenny Chesney | Here and Now | "Heartbreakers" | Writer |
| Sam Hunt | Southside | "2016" |
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| "Hard to Forget" | Producer | |||
| "Kinfolks" |
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| "Sinning with You" | Producer | |||
| "Young Once" |
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| "Let It Down" |
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| "That Ain't Beautiful" |
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| "Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s" |
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| "Nothing Lasts Forever" |
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| Dustin Lynch | Tullahoma | "Momma's House" | Producer | |
| "Dirt Road" | Producer | |||
| "Thinking 'Bout You" | Producer | |||
| "Ridin' Roads" |
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| "Old Country Song" | Producer | |||
| "The World Ain't Yours and Mine" | Producer | |||
| "Country Star" | Producer | |||
| "Workin' on You" | Producer | |||
| "Country Star" | Producer | |||
| "Little Town Livin" |
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| "Red Dirt, Blue Eyes" | Producer | |||
| 2019 | Thomas Rhett | Center Point Road | "Don't Stop Drivin'" | Writer |
| Chris Janson | Real Friends | "Good Vibes" |
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| "Normal People" |
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| 2018 | Brett Young | Ticket to L.A. | "Ticket to L.A." | Writer |
| "Runnin' Away from Home" | Writer | |||
| "Don't Wanna Write This Song" | Writer | |||
| Sam Hunt | Single | "Downtown's Dead" |
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| Dustin Lynch | Single | "Good Girl" | Producer | |
| 2017 | Sam Hunt | Bright: The Album | "This Land Is Your Land" | Producer |
| Luke Bryan | What Makes You Country | "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset" | Writer | |
| Kelsea Ballerini | Unapologetically | "Roses" | Writer | |
| Darius Rucker | When Was the Last Time | "Twenty Something" | Writer | |
| Dustin Lynch | Current Mood | "Small Town Boy" | Producer | |
| "New Girl" |
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| "Here We Come" |
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| Brett Young | Brett Young | "Making Me Say" | Writer | |
| Sam Hunt | Single | "Body Like a Back Road" |
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| Sam Hunt | Single | "Drinkin' Too Much" |
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| 2016 | Florida Georgia Line | Dig Your Roots | "Good Girl, Bad Boy" | Writer |
| Blake Shelton | If I'm Honest | "You Can't Make This Up" | Writer | |
| Cole Swindell | You Should Be Here | "Middle of a Memory" | Writer | |
| Martina McBride | Reckless | "Reckless" | Writer | |
| Joe | My Name Is Joe Thomas | "Hollow" |
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| 2015 | Sam Hunt | Between the Pines | Between the Pines |
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| Carrie Underwood | Storyteller | "Heartbeat" |
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| "Church Bells" | Writer | |||
| "Dirty Laundry" | Writer | |||
| "Relapse" | Producer | |||
| Michael Ray | Michael Ray | "Everything in Between" | Writer | |
| Easton Corbin | About to Get Real | "Guys and Girls" | Writer | |
| Billy Currington | Summer Forever | "Do I Make You Wanna" | Writer | |
| Brett Kissel | Pick Me Up | "Airwaves" | Writer | |
| Luke Bryan | Spring Break...Checkin' Out | "Spring Breakdown" | Writer | |
| 2014 | Cole Swindell | Down Home Sessions | "Kiss" | Writer |
| Sam Hunt | Montevallo | "Take Your Time" | Producer | |
| "Leave the Night On" | Producer | |||
| "House Party" |
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| "Break Up in a Small Town" |
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| "Single for the Summer" |
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| "Ex to See" | Producer | |||
| "Make You Miss Me" | Producer | |||
| "Cop Car" |
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| "Raised on It" |
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| "Speakers" | Producer | |||
| Chase Rice | Ignite the Night | "What's Your Name" | Writer | |
| "U Turn" | Writer | |||
| Dustin Lynch | Where It's At | "Where It's At" | Writer | |
| "Hell of a Night" | Writer | |||
| "To the Sky" | Writer | |||
| "Middle of Nowhere" | Writer | |||
| Lindsay Ell | Single | "Shut Me Up" | Writer | |
| Colt Ford | Thanks for Listening | "The High Life" (featuring Chase Rice) |
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| 2013 | Keith Urban | Fuse | "Cop Car" |
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| Dierks Bentley | Riser | "Sounds of Summer" | Writer | |
| Jake Owen | Days of Gold | "Good Timing" | Writer | |
| Scotty McCreery | See You Tonight | "See You Tonight" | Writer | |
| "Can You Feel It" | Writer | |||
| Will Hoge | Never Give In | "Strong" |
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| 2012 | Lecrae | Gravity | "Confe$$ions" |
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References
edit- ^ "Warner/Chappell Music - Featured Writers". Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
- ^ "Zach Crowell". Retrieved 2023-08-26.
- ^ "Lecrae's Biggest Grammy Win? Getting His Calls Returned Now". MTV News. Archived from the original on March 25, 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ "AllHipHop " ALBUM STREAM: Lecrae Releases His Long-Awaited "Gravity"". AllHipHop. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ "Will Hoge's 'Strong' fuels new Chevrolet ad campaign". Blogs.tennessean.com. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ "Songwriter Spotlight: Zach Crowell on Sam Hunt and Hustling". Rolling Stone. 30 November 2015.