Steven Tyler first heard his debut single, “Love Is Your Name” sung live in a songwriters’ round at The Bluebird Café by one of the writers. A few months later he returned to Nashville and he says, “I heard a tape of Hillary Lindsay doing ‘Love is Your Name’, and I said ‘Marti (Frederiksen, his songwriter and producer friend) is that our song? Is that something we wrote? I remember that, what is that from?’”
When you write as many songs as Steven and Marti do, it’s easy to forget what is in your catalog, so he knew the song was familiar and he loved it, but he says, “That’s what happens usually with song-writers, ‘cause we leave a lot a songs on the back burner and don’t finish them, and (Marti) quickly told me, ‘No, that’s Lindsay Lee (the co-writer of the song with Eric Paslay), that’s a hit song.’”
“Love Is Your Name” is the first release off of Steven’s debut country album, which he is currently recording.
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Steven Tyler – hearing demo of LIYN :28
“I came back to Nashville January of this year and I heard a tape of Hillary Lindsay doing ‘Love is Your Name’, and I said ‘Marti, is that our song, is that something we wrote? I remember that, what is that from?’ That’s what happens usually with song-writers, ‘cause we leave a lot a songs on the back burner and don’t finish them, and he quickly told me, ‘No, that’s Lindsay Lee, that’s a hit song.’”
STEVEN TYLER – THE FACTS
BIRTH DATE: March 26, 1948 (he’s 67)
HOMETOWN: Yonkers, New York
- Lead singer of rock icons Aerosmith.
- Inducted with Aerosmith into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
- Nicknamed: The Demon of Screamin’.
- Former American Idol
UPCOMING COUNTRY ALBUM ON DOT RECORDS.
COUNTRY SINGLE: “Love is your Name” released in May 2015
RECENT TWEETS:
Steven Tyler @IamStevenT September 4
LET’S UNPLUG, STRIP DOWN AND GET INTIMATE @COUNTRYMUSIC @FRONTANDCENTER TIX: https://tktwb.tw/1KuFVfm
Steven Tyler retweeted Country Music Assoc. @CountryMusic September 4
Hey #NEWYORK! @IamStevenT hits the @MelroseBallroom stage w/ #CMAsongwriters next week! Tix: https://countrymu.sc/cgcg
Steven Tyler @IamStevenT September 2
ME+KB…CMA NOMS IN NYC ON @GMA…F&*^ ME THAT’S A LOT OF ABBREV’S…TUNE IN 9/9 @ 8:30AM ET