Chris Williamson

In what way?

Generally, I mean, it's a fucking engine for music.

It's a factory for music.

But at least from...

From my perspective, the fact that you have a room where anybody who typically you've got like the writer credit of, dude, you were over the far side chewing on a toothpick or whatever.

Like, thank you for being in the room.

You contributed to this.

The fact that you will have multiple different rooms going at one time and artists will bounce between those if they're really, really trying to crank it.

It seems to me like there aren't many scenes like Nashville when it comes to writing music, maybe anywhere on the planet.

Is there something about country as a musical style which affords storytelling more room than other genres do?

To a degree, yeah.

And then is there something to do with the structure of country as a genre which affords more room for storytelling?

Like a rock, right?

Or just very unique ways to piece a story together and then keep on looping things back.

If I was to put my total amateur theory forward, it's so lyric driven.

It's so vocals heavy.

But are there many country songs where people go, dude, I just love the riff?

Well, no.

But with something like Caramel by Sleep Token, that plucky little intro thing that it has,

is as, yeah, exactly.