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Kelsea Ballerini Writing With Ed Sheeran and Others On Upcoming Album

Kelsea Ballerini has been hard at work on her next album to follow up her Unapologetically project. As Kelsea shared with us, she’s been writing songs with some famous names,…

Kelsea Ballerini Writing With Ed Sheeran and Others On Upcoming Album
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Kelsea Ballerini has been hard at work on her next album to follow up her Unapologetically project.

As Kelsea shared with us, she's been writing songs with some famous names, "It's been so much fun to get in the room with people that I've looked up to forever like Ryan Setter and Julia Michaels and Ed Sheeran. It's really fun to be able to write with other artists too. I haven't really done that before so you're in the room and they have the perspective of what it's gonna be like on stage and how you're gonna be able to communicate it and interviews and all that stuff. They have that knowledge. So it's a different perspective writing with them. I feel like I've grown a lot as a songwriter from that."

Ballerini just wrapped up CMA Fest 2019 where she co-hosted a TV special along with Thomas Rhett; the special will air on ABC in August.

She recently posted from the CMA Fest ball pit, "Oh just having a ball!

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.