Backstage with Cortni with Singer Songwriter Brent Cobb
Backstage with Cortni with Singer Songwriter Brent Cobb
06Oct
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Backstage with Cortni sat down with Brent Cobb at the Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam. Brent is a singer songwriter from Ellaville Georgia having written for various artists including Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan and Kellie Pickler.
Cortni: Hello I’m Cortni, with Backstage with Cortni. And we’re actually backstage here at Gulf Coast Jam with Brent Cobb, who is a song writer and you know how he told me to remember that? Brent on the cob! How are you doing today?
Cobb: Doing good. How are you?
Cortni: Hey, I’m doing great. I’m doing great. So, let me ask you a question. What do you do, man?
Cobb: [Laughs] Well, I write songs and I sing them. I took… how long of a story do you want? I’m a song writer. I took a year off from the road this past year; I and my wife had our first baby. We had a baby girl and so I’ve been writing songs.
Cortni: Nice, so do you reside in Nashville?
Cobb: I do. Yeah, I’ve been there for eight years. Once we got married, she…yeah, we’ve been there for eight years.
Cortni: Where are you from?
Cobb: Originally from Ellaville, Georgia. Southwest Georgia.
Cortni: Nice, I’m from north Alabama. So let me ask you a question. What do you do for inspiration?
Cobb: Depends on what mood I’m in, but usually I can look at my baby girl and my wife and feel inspired. Look at my family, we’re all southern, very rural, and it’s pretty easy to get inspiration from that.
Cortni: I have to say, country music is very, very respectful of marriages. It’s a lot better of a genre to be in. Do you agree with that?
Cobb: Absolutely. Yeah, well, you know what’s cool about country music? They very much support marriage and they very much support divorce too. Either way, you’re going to get inspiration.
Cortni: I heard a rumor that to be a country singer, you had to have at least gone through one divorce, have a baby-mama and have a mugshot. Am I missing anything?
Cobb: I think you got it! And if that’s the case too, then I should be a star. Mega star. Because I got a mugshot, I got a baby-mama…I haven’t gone through a divorce. Well, we waited long enough.
Cortni: Well, sometimes you know. When it’s the one, it’s the one. Sometimes you just have to say, “Divorce is just not an option.”
Cobb: How long have you been an interviewer?
Cortni: Well, I’ve been an interviewer for five minutes. [Laughs] I’m just kidding. I’ve been doing this for a pretty good while, for this year.
Cobb: You want to know what songs I’ve written for people?
Cortni: I do want to know what songs you’ve written and I also want to know if you have any superstitions or any rituals that you perform or go through before you get on stage.
Cobb: I have to have two shots of Jack Daniels and a Coors Light before I go on stage. I have to have a cigarette the moment I get off stage. Only one though, I don’t need any more than that. I’ve written songs… I wrote a song called “Oh Shit” for Miranda Lambert, it was on her last album. I wrote a song called “Don’t it?” for Kenny Chesney. It was on his last album. I wrote a song called “Wish We Could Stay All Night” for Little Big Town. I’ve written all kind of songs. I’ve written so many songs for different people, that I can’t get on radio, but I’m getting on albums, which I’m very thankful for. But I wish somebody would just take a minute and put me on radio.
Cortni: [Laughs] Well, we’ll have to see what we can do about that. So, let me ask you a question. When you’re doing the song writing for all of these different artists, and it gets picked for their albums, how does it make you feel?
Cobb: Great. It’s such a long process, though that you can really jinx it. And so, you never know. Like, something could get recorded and it may not make the album. You have to wait, and you never know what’s going to happen.
Cortni: Well, it sounds like you’ve had a successful career. Many people in Nashville can’t say that they’ve accomplished what you’ve accomplished, but it’s definitely the dream that you’re looking for; that most of the artists inspire to be, especially being a song writer. So, it seems like you’ve had, so far, a successful career.
Cobb: Very thankful. It is. I can’t believe it. I’ve been a song writer professionally for six years and still, I just can’t believe it. I’m very blessed.
Cortni: At what point did you realize you could write songs? Like, at what age did you realize you could write and what hit you? Do you play the guitar and you started hearing medleys in your head? Or did you write poems on paper? How did you start to produce the songs that you write?
Cobb: I’m from a very musical family. When I was 12 I started playing guitar and writing songs. Wrote my first song about my first little girlfriend that broke up with me and I was like, “Oh, I can write songs.” It’s a family thing though, matter fact, you may have heard of my cousin, Dave Cobb. He’s produced Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Jamie Johnson, a lot of people, really underground country. It just runs in the family. We’re all musical. It’s always been very natural.
Cortni: Do you have any siblings?
Cobb: I have a little sister.
Cortni: Ohhh. There’s nothing to a brother like a little sister. Let me guess, you guys were hell raisers.
Cobb: Yeah. I taught her how to raise hell. She learned how to avoid being punished for raising hell, because she’d see me do it first.
Cortni: That’s what little sisters do: we figure out how to get our brothers in trouble. But hey, we’re the best friend you’ll ever—yes! My brother is 29 and he’s my absolute best friend in the whole world. He gets all of my jokes.
Cobb: I’m that way with my sister.
Cortni: Yeah, we plot against people. God love him, we’re such smart alecks. [Laughs] Well, I’ve had a really good time speaking with you. Is there anything else that you would really like for people to know about you that maybe they don’t?
Cobb: Buy albums. Because if you don’t buy them, I don’t get paid as a song writer. That’s about it.
Cortni: Do you have a Facebook page or a Twitter account or an Instagram that you can tell the viewers to follow?
Cobb: At the moment, you can follow me on Twitter@Brent_Cobb. No Facebook, we’re revamping. There’s going to be something coming.
Cortni: So you’re in the rebranding process?
Cobb: Maybe.
Cortni: Well, we should do a follow-up interview with him. Once you get the rebranding and the new Facebook page. That’s the best part, as an artist, I think to rebrand yourself because it’s a whole new inspiration. You kind of step out more confidently. Did you just need that polish on your graphic design and your brand? Is that what inspired you?
Cobb: My baby girl inspired me. I had to take that year off to raise her and now that we have her, and I got to get to know my baby. Now, I feel like I can go out and know who I am and be confident about it.
Cortni: That’s the best feeling. Well, you guys check out his Facebook and his Twitter. I know the Facebook is in a revamping process, but we will definitely let you guys know when that’s up to date. Why don’t you guys stick around for some more Backstage with Cortni and see who else we have coming for you. Thank you.
Cobb: Thank you.
Backstage with Cortni with Singer Songwriter Brent Cobb
Cobb: Absolutely. Yeah, well, you know what’s cool about country music? They very much support marriage and they very much support divorce too. Either way, you’re going to get inspiration.
Cortni: I heard a rumor that to be a country singer, you had to have at least gone through one divorce, have a baby-mama and have a mugshot. Am I missing anything?
Cobb: I think you got it! And if that’s the case too, then I should be a star. Mega star. Because I got a mugshot, I got a baby-mama…I haven’t gone through a divorce. Well, we waited long enough.
Cortni: Well, sometimes you know. When it’s the one, it’s the one. Sometimes you just have to say, “Divorce is just not an option.”
Cobb: How long have you been an interviewer?
Cortni: Well, I’ve been an interviewer for five minutes. [Laughs] I’m just kidding. I’ve been doing this for a pretty good while, for this year.
Cobb: You want to know what songs I’ve written for people?
Cortni: I do want to know what songs you’ve written and I also want to know if you have any superstitions or any rituals that you perform or go through before you get on stage.
Cobb: I have to have two shots of Jack Daniels and a Coors Light before I go on stage. I have to have a cigarette the moment I get off stage. Only one though, I don’t need any more than that. I’ve written songs… I wrote a song called “Oh Shit” for Miranda Lambert, it was on her last album. I wrote a song called “Don’t it?” for Kenny Chesney. It was on his last album. I wrote a song called “Wish We Could Stay All Night” for Little Big Town. I’ve written all kind of songs. I’ve written so many songs for different people, that I can’t get on radio, but I’m getting on albums, which I’m very thankful for. But I wish somebody would just take a minute and put me on radio.
Cortni: [Laughs] Well, we’ll have to see what we can do about that. So, let me ask you a question. When you’re doing the song writing for all of these different artists, and it gets picked for their albums, how does it make you feel?
Cobb: Great. It’s such a long process, though that you can really jinx it. And so, you never know. Like, something could get recorded and it may not make the album. You have to wait, and you never know what’s going to happen.
Cortni: Well, it sounds like you’ve had a successful career. Many people in Nashville can’t say that they’ve accomplished what you’ve accomplished, but it’s definitely the dream that you’re looking for; that most of the artists inspire to be, especially being a song writer. So, it seems like you’ve had, so far, a successful career.
Cobb: Very thankful. It is. I can’t believe it. I’ve been a song writer professionally for six years and still, I just can’t believe it. I’m very blessed.
Cortni: At what point did you realize you could write songs? Like, at what age did you realize you could write and what hit you? Do you play the guitar and you started hearing medleys in your head? Or did you write poems on paper? How did you start to produce the songs that you write?
Cobb: I’m from a very musical family. When I was 12 I started playing guitar and writing songs. Wrote my first song about my first little girlfriend that broke up with me and I was like, “Oh, I can write songs.” It’s a family thing though, matter fact, you may have heard of my cousin, Dave Cobb. He’s produced Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Jamie Johnson, a lot of people, really underground country. It just runs in the family. We’re all musical. It’s always been very natural.
Cortni: Do you have any siblings?
Cobb: I have a little sister.
Cortni: Ohhh. There’s nothing to a brother like a little sister. Let me guess, you guys were hell raisers.
Cobb: Yeah. I taught her how to raise hell. She learned how to avoid being punished for raising hell, because she’d see me do it first.
Cortni: That’s what little sisters do: we figure out how to get our brothers in trouble. But hey, we’re the best friend you’ll ever—yes! My brother is 29 and he’s my absolute best friend in the whole world. He gets all of my jokes.
Cobb: I’m that way with my sister.
Cortni: Yeah, we plot against people. God love him, we’re such smart alecks. [Laughs] Well, I’ve had a really good time speaking with you. Is there anything else that you would really like for people to know about you that maybe they don’t?
Cobb: Buy albums. Because if you don’t buy them, I don’t get paid as a song writer. That’s about it.
Cortni: Do you have a Facebook page or a Twitter account or an Instagram that you can tell the viewers to follow?
Cobb: At the moment, you can follow me on Twitter@Brent_Cobb. No Facebook, we’re revamping. There’s going to be something coming.
Cortni: So you’re in the rebranding process?
Cobb: Maybe.
Cortni: Well, we should do a follow-up interview with him. Once you get the rebranding and the new Facebook page. That’s the best part, as an artist, I think to rebrand yourself because it’s a whole new inspiration. You kind of step out more confidently. Did you just need that polish on your graphic design and your brand? Is that what inspired you?
Cobb: My baby girl inspired me. I had to take that year off to raise her and now that we have her, and I got to get to know my baby. Now, I feel like I can go out and know who I am and be confident about it.
Cortni: That’s the best feeling. Well, you guys check out his Facebook and his Twitter. I know the Facebook is in a revamping process, but we will definitely let you guys know when that’s up to date. Why don’t you guys stick around for some more Backstage with Cortni and see who else we have coming for you. Thank you.
Cobb: Thank you.
