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Legendary Songwriter & Storyteller, Gary Burr
Gary Burr | Artist Bio
GARY BURR is one of Nashville’s most accomplished songwriters with 32 top forty hits, 24 top tens, and 14 number-one songs.
One of the rare breed who writes hits alone as well as co-writing, Gary is a favorite collaborator of writing icons such as Carole King, Richard Marx, Don Schlitz, Victoria Shaw, Kenny Loggins … even Ringo Starr!
His songs have been recorded by Christina Aguilera, Juice Newton, Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, Joe Cocker, Reba McEntire, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michael Bolton, Randy Travis, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Kelly Clarkson, and many others. He’s been named Songwriter of the Year by Billboard and ASCAP, twice by the NSAI, and has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame.
The next song is never far from my mind …
Gary has been teaching songwriting courses to a new generation of musicians and was featured in the Poets and Prophets series by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Over the years Gary has kept his joy of music alive by keeping his hand in as many musical adventures as he can… replacing Vince Gill as the lead singer in the seminal country-rock group Pure Prairie League; spending years writing and performing with pop legend Carole King; as guitarist/vocalist for Ringo Starr in his band The Roundheads; and co-founding Blue Sky Riders (with Georgia Middleman and Kenny Loggins).
In the early 2000s, Gary was invited to work on a record with Ringo Starr, beginning a decades-long friendship that continues to this day.They have written and recorded dozens of songs together that have appeared on Ringo’s albums.
His first novel, Reunion was released in July. Gary’s years of friendship and working alongside living legends like Ringo, Carole, Kenny, and many others have given him profound insights into what goes on in front of and behind the curtain, helping inspire and bring life and authenticity to Reunion, a “what if” rock and roll fairy tale set in a world where John Lennon is alive and four old friends (Hint: The Beatles) try to get together again for one last concert.
Gary’s latest success is “Wherever You Are Tonight, a beautiful ballad of loss and heartache that appears on Kenny Chesney’s newest cd, Born. The song was co-written with Mike Reid, the writer of “I Can’t Make You Love Me” for Bonnie Raitt.