Dean Dillon met Linda Hargrove when she was playing a show at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe. She was known as the “blue jean country queen.” They stayed up late into the night and wrote a song that would ...

T-Pain was at a karaoke party last year when an R&B-flavored country ballad starting playing over the system. The rapper-turned-singer didn’t recognize it, so he opened up Shazam to listen — and the ...