Dave Haywood
Dave Haywood
David Wesley "Dave" Haywood is an American country musician and songwriter. He is one-third of the band Lady Antebellum, in which he plays guitar, piano and mandolin, and sings backing vocals...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth5 July 1982
CityAugusta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
came decided enjoyed felt hillary played until written
The very first day that Hillary came over, we were working on a song called 'All We'd Ever Need.' But we never even thought about it until we had written 5, 6, 7 songs. Then we played our first show, and we all enjoyed it so much. We felt like it was something a special and different. So from there we decided to do Lady Antebellum.
brown charles james music southern
Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
country feels front photos stopped
We were taking some photos one day in front of one of these old antebellum homes, and one of us said the word. And we all kind of stopped and said, 'That could be a name!' ... It just feels kind of country and nostalgic.
bit great hooks love melodies opposed people side songs
We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.
christmas june light
It is always weird to be in the studio working on Christmas music in June and July, so we decorated the entire studio, we really did. We brought out lights, fake trees and decorated the place to get in the Christmas spirit. You'd leave the studio, and it'd be 100 degrees out in Nashville, but nonetheless, a great experience.
country bourbon
That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible.
son artist records
Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.
writing winning thinking
You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.
country roots foundation
We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.
people nerves sitting
We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.
song writing thinking
We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.
redneck security-guards hey
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!
lines music-is bottom
To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.
men thinking names
When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.