Shane McAnally: SoundsLikeNashville
The Writers Round with Shane McAnally
The ace songwriter recently celebrated his 44th No. 1 song with Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s duet “Nobody But You.” McAnally enlisted the help of Stefani to attain his first single with Shelton. “We didn’t write it as a duet. We wrote it with them in mind: more about him to her,” he explains of Shelton’s most recent chart-topping single. “I didn’t have his number, so I sent it to her and said, ‘This is for Blake.’ We were good enough friends that she understood why I was sending it. I was like, ‘Look, I can’t get this right in his hands and if you feel like you have the moment to play it for him … I just think this is how he feels about you from what I can tell.’ They have a really special relationship. She and I had talked about it, so I took a chance. It was a scary chance.”