Aaron Raitiere

Aaron Raitiere is a lyricist, performer, and visual artist from Danville, Kentucky

He shared a 2019 Grammy for co-writing “I’ll Never Love Again” with <a href="spotify:artist:1HY2Jd0NmPuamShAr6KMms" data-name="Lady Gaga">Lady Gaga</a>, Hillary Lindsay, and <a href="spotify:artist:32opPqLCT3sF24Aso7wTXw" data-name="Natalie Hemby">Natalie Hemby</a> for A Star Is Born. (He co-wrote it in about 30 minutes on his first-ever trip to Los Angeles.) He’s also placed cuts with <a href="spotify:artist:66lH4jAE7pqPlOlzUKbwA0" data-name="Miranda Lambert">Miranda Lambert</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:371jpyGdoChzUASOIG2ECV" data-name="Ashley McBryde">Ashley McBryde</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1OV5mEATxtVma7fleFaUyl" data-name="Lori McKenna">Lori McKenna</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3XnO697XIus1M0cMuxZjos" data-name="The Oak Ridge Boys">The Oak Ridge Boys</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7JFtD8KnbAADBBDleIMuH7" data-name="The Lone Bellow">The Lone Bellow</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:04DUpHOyQqwbHFyvIhcGi3" data-name="Randy Rogers Band">Randy Rogers Band</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5tv5SsSRqR7uLtpKZgcRrg" data-name="Chris Shiflett">Chris Shiflett</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1DTZRmlVZBxx2wRQBtx6yi" data-name="Midland">Midland</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:26C2AjqgMr5aDzj6Yp2ORz" data-name="Brent Cobb">Brent Cobb</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0F6yRPhUj9fUzWn0z3ysyr" data-name="Shooter Jennings">Shooter Jennings</a> and more.

When a few friends offered to make a debut record on him, Raitiere simply agreed to go along with it. In the four years since that first session for what would become Single Wide Dreamer, the auspicious project has retained its casual charm even as its guest list gradually expanded. Anderson East and Miranda Lambert, who co-produced the album, now appear alongside Nashville musicians like Dave Cobb, Natalie Hemby, Ashley Monroe, and Waylon Payne, as well as Robert Randolph, Foy Vance, and Bob Weir.

“I think the record kind of made itself, and that was the vibe I was going with,” Raitiere says. “It was just a bunch of friends getting together trying to help me create something, because they thought I needed a record.”

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