Brent Cobb: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Lars Gotrich, January 17, 2017 In some parts of the South, there s an accent where every conversation sounds like a song. Brent Cobb, a native of the small town of Ellaville, Ga. , doesn t quite whistle through his teeth when he speaks, but he does push more air into his S s when he sings. When he sings Solving Problems, a song about a Sundayafternoon bull session, at the NPR Music offices, the words shimmer like a tall glass of sweet tea in the latemorning sun when he strings together a particularly consonant phrase: Conversation covers everything and in between, from Grandpa s health to marrying good Solving Problems comes from Shine On Rainy Day, his majorlabel debut produced by distant cousin Dave Cobb; it s nearly a decade in the making. Brent Cobb spent those years on Nashville s Music Row, writing songs for the likes of Luke Bryan, Little Big Town and Miranda Lambert. But where most songwriters write for the performer, Cobb plainly says, If I write a song, they re always for me. If