Nashville’s Chuck Cannon headlines the newest Stars Over Wimberley concert July 24 at the Wimberley Playhouse. Opening for Cannon is Jessee Lee, the talented, uniquely-voiced singer songwriter from New Braunfels. The talented up-and-coming singer songwriter is the daughter of Grammy- nominated songwriter David Lee.
In a recent interview on KWVH’s Rootin’ Around Radio show, host Mike August interviewed Chuck Cannon, asking him to talk about five of his favorite songs. In talking about his hit song “I love how you Love Me,” cowritten with Victoria Shaw that became a first single for Chuck Cannon and John Michael Montgomery in 1993, he revealed how songwriting and not necessarily performing became the focus of his talent.
“Like a lot of other songwriters I came to town [Nashville] to be a singer. I’d spent a lot of years and a lot of effort being a pro songwriter and I loved that job and I loved that living and I loved writing hit songs, but I decided that I wanted to make a record [of my own.] “The interesting thing,” he continued, “is that it happened kind of ‘bass-ackwards.’ One of my buddies who is a record exec whose name is Mark Wright, said I want you to record four love songs for me. At the end of the day when we finished recording those, we still had about 30 minutes on the union card, so I got the guys to play the song called, “If I was Jesus.” The next day when I. . . listened to the song, I thought, well, here’s something I can get behind, here’s something I enjoy doing, this is an interesting song. I decided to record an album of these kinds of songs.” Cannon went on to write every song on the album which he named “God-Shaped Hole.” In all, he self-released two albums, “God Shaped Hole” in 2006 and “Love and Money” in 2008.
