Well, thank y'all.

Thanks for having us.

My name is Jim McCormick.

I'm honored to be up here on stage tonight with my friend Kenzie Coppin and my friend C.J.

Solar.

We are representing the Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival tonight, and we're going to play a few songs for yo I'm going to play one here, Kick it off with the song.

Jason Aldean recorded a few years ago and awfully grateful to him for it.

Going round and round all day and bailing some hay and stacking it all up.

Can't wait for the sun to go down, roll in the town and shine your truck up.

Swing by the quick stop.

Grab a little shiner back then ease on out your way your place around eight o'clock I'm just ready to ride this Chevy Ride this Chevy down a little back road.

Slide your pretty little self on over, get a little closer you can play my radio.

Put your pretty pink toes on the dash Lean the seat back.

Man, I swear, there ain't nothing looks better than that sweet, tan little thing with nothing to do.

I want to take a little ride with you.

I hope you're wearing those frayed out cutoffs make me want to get lost out in the moonlight.

Drop the tailgate down on the turn road Watch the corn grow, baby that's a good night.

Anyone on the heartland is going to understand what I'm talking about right now.

Ain't no doubt we got a game plan.

And now I'm just ready to ride this Chevy to ride this Chevy down a little back road, slide your pretty little self on over get a little closer, you can play my radio.

Put your pretty pink toes on the dash lean the seat back, man I swear there ain't nothing looks better than that sweet tan little thing with nothing to do.

I'll take a little ride with you.

I'm just ready to ride this Chevy.

Ride this Chevy down a little back road.

Slide your pretty little self on over Get a little closer, you can play my radio Put the pretty pink toes on the dash Lean the seat back, man, I swear there ain't nothing looks better than that sweet tan little thing with nothing to do.

I want to take a little ride with you.

I want to take a little ride with you.

Thank you, guys.

So I'm going to do a little bit of my version of Honky Tonk Music.

This is called Heartbreak Queen.

This will probably be out in the next year or so.

So look out for it.

Got on my frisky two step and shiny cowboy boots going out tonight just to do what I do, drop a few Hey Y'alls drop a few jaws on the floor.

gonna shoot em all a smile as they get in line.

It's the same little game every Friday night.

I need a smooth talking, long necking cowboy to spin me around find me at the bar on my throne in my Stetson crown.

If you think I'll ever settle down.

I wont, because I'm the Heartbreak Queen of the Honky Tonk Every man think he's gonna rope me in to change my mind and get me going on with him they don't know it But they're just puppets in my masquerade.

Yeah, yeah.

And I'm the one pulling the strings.

You should see the way I make em but drinks I need a smooth talking, long necking cowboy to spin me around find me at the bar on my throne in my Stetson crown.

If you think I'll ever settle down.

I won't because I'm the Heartbreak Queen of the Honky Tonk yeah I'm the Heartbreak Queen of the Honky Tonk ooh oh I need a smooth talking, long necking cowboy to spin me around, hey!

find me at the bar on my throne in my Stetson crown.

If you think I'll ever settle down.

I wont, because I'm the Heartbreak Queen of the Honky Tonk yeah I'm the Heartbreak Queen of the Honky Tonk yes, I am ooh Thank y'all so much.

Thank you.

And that was great.

I'm going to do one This is actually the first song I ever had recorded by another artist in Nashville.

My buddy Jerrod Neimann, put this song out It's called Blue Bandana.

She was dancing in a sundress under a Carolina sunset On the last night of Merle Fest She told me she ain't missed one since the summer She turned 18 hit that road on a gypsy dream, hitched-hiked a ride in a beat up van following in her favorite band And now she's a Bonaroo baby She's Coachella crazy She'll be folking out in Newport You've probably seen her before Up at Lollapalooza, in the muddy Wakarusa She'll be at the Hangout down in Alabama Just look for the girl in the blue bandana Woah Woah She had a flower in her hair.

Little smoke was in the air.

We were chillin' in some lawnchairs saying we wish we could've seen Woodstock.

Tell me she was leaving in the morning, heading down to New Orleans.

Said boy, you oughta come along And I knew I shoulda gone with my Bonaroo baby She's Coachella crazy She'll be folking out in Newport You've probably seen her before Up at Lollapalooza, in the muddy Wakarusa She'll be at the Hangout down in Alabama just look for the girl in the blue bandana.

Woah woah Several thousand faces in a crowd And I know she's out there somewhere jamming out Cause now she's a Bonaroo baby She's Coachella crazy She'll be folking out in Newport You've probably seen her before Up at Lollapalooza, in the muddy Wakarusa She'll be at the Hangout down in Alabama Just look for the girl in the blue bandana woah woah Now I got a beat up van And I'm driving across this land Looking for a blue bandana Thank you Beautiful, bud.

If you go to Nashville as a songwriter and you want to try to get your songs recorded, there's one artist that seems to be most important to those of us from Louisiana.

His name's Tim McGraw, and I had the great honor of having a song recorded by Tim a few years ago.

I'll play it for you.

It's called Louisiana Maybe it was a dream last night, looking into my daughter's eyes, but my heart was sinking.

Yeah, man, you got me thinking about all my yesterdays every memory, every page of my innocence wishing I could go back when I was wild and free as the Mississippi playing in the sugarcane part of me is gone I don't when it slipped away, I guess I left it in Louisiana.

Blowing in the wind hiding in the quarter Gotta get back there again To the sweet sounds of the bayou let it wash right over me make me whole again.

Bring back that missing piece That I left in Louisiana.

I still feel the same, but the mirror tells me that I've changed every morning.

Like a subtle warning comes on like a delta rain soaks through my skin down to my veins and leaves me breathless and a little restless, reminding me of how life is so fragile.

Lack of thin sheet of glass.

The moment you're living right now soon becomes your past And I left mine in Louisiana.

Blowing in the wind hiding in the quarters gotta get back there again to the sweet sound of the bayou.

let it wash right over me and make me.

make me whole again Bring back that missing piece.

I left in Louisiana Every night I close my eyes, I go walking under that magnolia sky that I left in Louisiana Blowing in the wind hiding in the quarters Gotta get back there again the sweet sound of the bayou let it wash right over me and make me whole again.

Bring back that missing piece I left in Louisiana Touched down In a place I don't know that I used to call home.

It don't feel like that these days.

20 years of thinking I know, where I wanna to be where I wanna to go hell, maybe we've both changed.

When did it get so lonely?

Did you ever know me?

Most nights.

It feels like this place is haunted like I'm living with the ghosts of all my dreams.

when did everything I ever wanted turn out to be the reason I leave I thought out here I could find something real something right That facade song didn't last long.

Now my world don't wanna spin I feel these walls closing in.

It's hard to breathe with a mask on How can my heart be breaking and somehow still be racing most nights it feels like this place is haunted like I'm living with the ghost of all my dreams.

When did everything I ever wanted turn out to be the reason I leave it all behind Walk right out the door, pack the car and drive So I ain't treading water any more.

most nights it feel like this place is haunted like I'm living with the ghosts of all my dreams.

When did everything I ever wanted turn out to be The reason I leave.

The reason I leave Thank y'all so much I got another one.

My buddy Jameson Rodgers put this song out a couple of years ago and we were very fortunate to get to share the song on number one in 2020.

And it's about Crazy Ex-girlfriend's Pictures on her phone And tears in her eyes Waterproof make-up ain't made for a break up On Saturday night Then it's, "Hey, how you been?"

"Good how 'bout you?"

Funny how I see you once after a few months Get you locked out, right back to Telling folks you know, I know all about Some new guy takin' you out Then you unfollow me, then follow me back Just so I know you're still around Some girls get their mama on the phone Take a trip back home pretend they never knew the guy Some girls drink a bottle of wine Got an old ex to text, to get them through the getting by Sometimes it's a clean break, stay gone Clean slate, moving on to something new Sometimes, some girls make it easy on you But some girls never do Some hearts stay broke Some hearts don't skip a beat Some people say goodbye Then try to make it all right Just like you're doin' to me But tonight I'm lettin' it ring Some girls get their mama on the phone Take a trip back home pretend they never knew the guy Some girls drink a bottle of wine Got an old ex to text, to get them through the getting by Sometimes it's a clean break, stay gone Clean slate, moving on to something new Sometimes, some girls make it easy on you But some girls never do Yeah, some girls know when they've got something Worth holding on to Some girls never do.

Some girls get the mama on the phone.

Some girls get their mama on the phone Take a trip back home pretend they never knew the guy Some girls drink a bottle of wine Got an old ex to text, to get them through the getting by Sometimes it's a clean break, stay gone Clean slate, moving on to something new Sometimes, some girls make it easy on you But some girls never do Yeah, some girls never do.

Sometimes some girls make it easy on you.

Thank you.

I went to.

I went to Jesuit High School in New Orleans, and a year ahead of me was a guy named Harry Connick Jr. And I mentioned earlier, if you're a songwriter from Louisiana, Tim McGraw is the guy.

But if you're the mother of a songwriter from Louisiana, Harry connick Jr is the guy.

And Harry cut this song and Mama thought, that's it.

He's made it.

That's it.

Everybody says together forever.

A lot of them mean it to But no one does, 'I do' like we do they say the fireworks fade and the fireflies once the honeymoon's through They don't do 'I do' like we do Nobody got a you like me Nobody got this history Of the good times, and the hard times And the wild times we've been through Nobody got a me like you babe I ain't much but this much is true No one does 'I do' like we do I do my best to keep you guessing that you still Got me confused.

No one does 'I do' like we do the more we go rambling down this road the more it feels brand new No one does 'I do' like we do Nobody got a you like me Nobody got this history Of the good times, and the hard times And the wild times we've been through Nobody got a me like you girl I ain't much but this much is true No one does 'I do' like we do No, I ain't knocking what Mom and Dad got.

They got a good thing to.

But they don't do 'I do' like we do Everybody turns out the light every night.

When the day is through.

They don't do.

Nobody got a you like me Nobody got this history Of the good times, and the hard times And the wild times we've been through Nobody got a me like you I ain't much but this much is true No one does 'I do' like we do No one does 'I do' quite like we do Thank you, I wrote this song a few months ago by myself, and I like to say I wrote it with God and he just kind of gave it to me.

But this is called Starlight.

And I just want to remind you all that we are all stars in our own right, and we all have something to offer the world.

So this song is for each and every one of you.

you light up the path wherever you go.

Changing the world, making it glow when everybody wants to see the show.

You don't stay in one place for too long.

Maybe 'cause deep inside, you know, that won't help you grow.

So get up and go shine that starlight, star bright you illuminate the night shooting glitter through the sky starlight star bright you sure shimmer in every room making people wanna look at you and you don't mean to, you know the power that you have grappled by the pain of the past.

So don't look back and shine that starlight star bright, you illuminate the night shooting glitter through the sky starlight.

star bright *humming* Never you think that it's the end like your burning out again Remember who you are.

Remember you're a star starlight star bright you illuminate the night shooting glitter through the sky starlight star bright *humming* Thank you.

I'm gonna do this song that I put out a couple of years ago myself.

I write songs for other people, but I also release music and it's one of my favorite songs I've ever done.

But it's really special for me because the first time I actually ever played the song live was whenever I got to make my debut at the Grand Ole Opry up in Nashville, still one of my favorite moments of the career.

So anyway, this song is called Watered Down Whiskey.

The ice in this glass seems to melt way too fast These nights Yeah, the buzz never lasts and I'm still chasing what I had But can't find Because, you know, when it's good, you know when it's cheap, but I'll take what I can get when I can't get what I need.

Darling, loving you is like drinking the good stuff.

And when you've had the best the rest ain't strong enough, try to move on But every last call it hits me Everything but you is watered down whiskey Yeah hit every spot in town, shut all them bars down And if I'm lucky Might get lost in her perfume, even though she ain't you it's something when the morning light comes he'll take me back to my truck then I think to myself How long can I keep this up Darling, loving you is like drinking the good stuff.

And when you've had the best the rest ain't strong enough, try to move on But every last call it hits me Everything but you is watered down whiskey because you know when it's good and you know when it's cheap, but I take what I can get when I can't get what I need darling, loving you Darling, loving you is like drinking the good stuff.

And when you've had the best the rest ain't strong enough, try to move on But every last call it hits me Everything but you is watered down whiskey Thank you He's a phone call to his parents.

He's in the Bible buys his bed, he's the t shirt that I'm wearing.

He's the song stuck in my head He's solid and he's steady like the Allegheny runs He knows just where he's going and he's proud of where he's from.

One of the good ones He's one of the good ones love me like he should one like he wrote the book one The kind you find when you don't even look one Anybody can be good ones, but he's good all the time.

He's of the good ones and he's all mine He's one of the good ones you'll know him when you see him the way he looks at me you'd say he hung the moon, I'd say he hung the galaxy.

Nobody does it better all the way.

oh, the way he pulls me in I've known a couple bad ones, but they all.

but they all lead me to him.

One of the good ones love me like he should one like he wrote the book one The kind you find when you don't even look one Anybody can be good ones, but he's good all the time He's of the good ones and he's all mine We should all find us one They're out there minus one.

Yeah, I got a good one.

He's one of the good ones love me like he should one like he wrote the book one The kind you find when you don't even look one Anybody can be good ones, but he's good all the time He's of the good ones and he's all mine He's of the good ones Right?

This hall, this is called Raising Hell.

This will be my next single.

Take me down to the water.

Wash my soul in a wishing well Well, I'm the preacher man's daughter falling for a boy who loves to raise hell when I was a baby my mama started praying that I'd find me a good man one like daddy who walked in the light with a bible in his hands But I've got eyes for a boy who loves raising and all kind of Cain Mama keep praying the good Lord will send me A man like Jesse James.

Take me down to the water.

Wash my soul in a wishing well.

I'm the preacher man's daughter.

falling for a boy who loves to raise hell daddy's been preaching about temptations, sinning and how to repent Oh, it's all in things me and my baby doing I don't know where to begin church folks singing, headed to the altar down on the knees to pray me and my crooked smiled, deviled eyed savior headed out the other way Take me down to the water Wash my soul in a wishing well I'm the preacher man's daughter falling for a boy who loves to raise hell you can take me down.

You can wash my soul.

It's too late now.

Here I go.

Take me down to the water.

Wash my soul in a wishing well I'm the preacher man's daughter falling for a boy who loves to raise Take me down to the water wash my soul in a wishing well I'm the preacher man's daughter yeah, yeah, yeah falling for a boy whop loves to raise hell Thank you all so much.

Then this is my first number one song as a songwriter.

This thing's called up down It's Friday after 5, got here just in time Went ahead and wet a line 'fore I went and lost my mind I ain't been here long, but the bobber's in the pond Going up down, up, down, up, down Tonight, we're gonna raise a whole lot more than cane because there's money in the bank.

and tomorrow's Saturday So if they pass that fifth of Jack this wa I turn it up, down, up, down, up, down We just holding it down here in BFE Still rolling around with a burnt CD Free Bird, five minutes deep Head bobbing up, down, up, down, up, down We got what we got, we don't need the rest Turn this parking lot into a party With an ice chest, dancing, cold beer Man, we live it up, down, up, down We live it up down here Are we living it up tonight?

Pensacola, y'all, come on.

yeah, the girls, they hit the spot, even hotter when it's hot If you can't buy her a yacht, but still proud of what you got Cause when the day's done red neck is from the sun Going up, down, up, down, up, down We just holding it down here in BFE Still rolling around with a burnt CD Free Bird, five minutes deep Head bobbing up, down, up, down, up, down We got what we got, we don't need the rest Turn this parking lot into a party With an ice chest, dancing, cold beer Man, we live it up, down, up, down We live it up down here Somebody pass that fifth of Jack, this way.

I'll turn it up, down, up, down, up, down We just holding it down here in BFE Still rolling around with a burnt CD Free Bird, five minutes deep Head bobbing up, down, up, down, up, down We got what we got, we don't need the rest Turn this parking lot into a party With an ice chest, dancing, cold beer Man, we live it up, down, up, down We live it up down here Thank y'all.

I got crackers in my sugar rice in my salt it's been raining for days, but it ain't my fault I'm drinking old coffee, but I ain't proud I hated to hear that back door slam she makes me crazier already am she said goodbye but she didn't have to say it that loud And I've been drinking for days that don't work.

Here I am in the same t shirt that I was wearing when she walked out that night.

every dish is dirty, the bed still made I'm almost sober, but I'm still afraid of picking up the phone and making things right.

You can't drown your sorrows, they know how to swim You can't hold them under, they come bobbing up again Drink up, whiskey river drain an ocean of gin You can't drown your sorrows, they know how to swim Well, I thought I was right.

Maybe I'm still wrong.

I'm still having this fight.

Even though she's gone, I'm trying to make things whole with just one half.

Yeah, I'm furious.

Hurt, a little insane.

And if I called her up I'd probably be insane But probably what she needs most is a hug and a laugh Hell, the papers are all piled up on the porch days long in the news a short I ain't called in to work because I'd tell them the truth.

And this last bit is going down the sink.

I miss my girl, but I'm starting to think I got to get up and do what I gotta do 'Cause you can't drown your sorrows, they know how to swim You can't hold them under, they come bobbing up again Drink up, whiskey river drain an ocean of gin You can't drown your sorrows, they know how to swim You can't drown your sorrows They know glup, glup, glup, glup how to swim That was fantastic She don't like this bar.

She don't like my friends.

She thinks we party too hard She said, "It's me or them" She said I need to change my ways "Boy, you got a choice to make" So I don't drink any more Ever since she left I don't drink any more and I don't drink any less She picked a bad time.

To try and slow me down And this ain't a good night to try and turn me around.

I still like to get crazy, nothing new Still like to have a few So I don't drink any more Ever since she left.

I don't drink anymore.

and I don't drink any less I didn't want her to go and it's not that I don't give a damn I just want someone to want me for who I am And this is who I am She said I need to change my ways "Boy, you got a choice to make" So I don't drink any more Yeah, tonight you can bet I don't drink any more and I don't drink any less I don't drink anymore.

and I don't drink any less Oh yes.

Yeah, man!

Hey old friend, thanks for callin' It's good to know somebody cares.

Yeah she's gone but I don't feel like talkin' It might be just too much to bear To hear somebody say it stops hurtin' or to hear somebody say she ain't worth it.

Cause you don't know her like I do You'll never understand You don't know what we've been through.

That girl's my best friend.

And there's no way you're gonna help me She's the only one who can No, you don't know how much I got to lose You don't know her like I do can't pretend I'm drowning in these memories It hurts my soul with all the little thing Now I can't cope.

It's like a death inside the family.

It's like she stole my way to breathe So don't try to tell me it stops hurting Don't try to tell me she ain't worth it Cause you don't know her like I do You'll never understand You don't know what we've been through.

That girl's my best friend.

And there's no way you're gonna help me She's the only one who can No, you don't know how much I got to lose You don't know her like I do You don't know her like I do You'll never understand You don't know what we've been through.

That girl's my best friend.

And there's no way you're gonna help me She's the only one who can No, you don't know how much I got to lose No, you'll never know how much I got to lose You don't know her like I do, Thanks y'all!

The song is called All right.

If you're having a bad day, this is for you.

I've been walking through life a little color blind.

But I'm seeing rainbows for the very first time, I didn't know the beauty 'till I opened my eyes.

What a wonderful world.

I never noticed the song Birds Sing at dawn until I found myself singing along And it's a tune that fills my soul.

It must be heaven I found There ain't rhythm or reason, everything has got a season Uh huh, yeah searching for the meaning got me all up in my feelings but it's all out of my control I'm falling off of my horse, weather the storms but still standing here with love in my heart I'll find the bright side No matter how dark Oh, I'll be just fine Yeah.

There ain't rhythm or reason, everything has got a season Uh huh, yeah searching for the meaning gets me all up in my feelings but it's all out of my control So the older I get.

The more I'm convinced the sound of freedom is the wind on my skin.

When the warm sunshine dries up cold rain I know it's gonna be all right.

Yeah, I know it's gonna be all right.

Thank y'all so much.

I wrote that with Lance Dubroc and Elena Jones Patagonia t-shirt sittin' on a pine levee Hair in a bun iPhone playin' Tom Petty American girls Dancin' on the bar Las Vegas yellin' go Tigers Whiskey in her hand ain't bought one all night American girl.

They know how to look like a million bucks Sure look good ridin' 'round in a truck Damn sure know how to break a heart There ain't no stoppin' them once they start Lord have mercy, God bless the USA Make a boy say damn when he sees the way They be lookin' when they drive by Makes you wanna give Uncle Sam a high five From every pretty city thing rockin' them red high heels To the Tony Lama babes in the hay fields Can't find them anywhere else in the world Ain't nothin' like American girls Us American boys, we just can't get enough Chase 'em all around cause we love to love American girls Go anywhere else and you know what you'll find A bunch of fine lookin' things but nothin' quite like Them American girls Lord have mercy, God bless the USA Make a boy say damn when he sees the way They be lookin' when they drive by Makes you wanna give Uncle Sam a high five From every pretty city thing rockin' them red high heels To the Tony Lama babes in the hay fields Can't find them anywhere else in the world Ain't nothin' like American girls Know how to look like a million bucks Sure look good ridin' 'round in a truck Damn sure know how to break a heart There ain't no stoppin' them once they start Lord have mercy, God bless the USA Make a boy say damn when he sees the way They be lookin' when they drive by Makes you wanna give Uncle Sam a high five From every pretty city thing rockin' them red high heels To the Tony Lama babes in the hay fields Can't find them anywhere else in the world Ain't nothin' like American girls oh yeah Ain't nothin' like American girls Thank you!