The Sweet Reason Russell Dickerson Won’t Write Breakup Songs

If you take a microscope to Russell Dickerson‘s song library you will find barely any songs about a breakup. That’s by design.

Dickerson sat on the Taste of Country Nights barstool, and I asked him why songs about a relationship going sour are such a teeny part of his catalogue.

“I have a few, but I have an abnormally low amount I would say,” he admitted.

When pressed further, asking if he disliked breakup songs in general, or if he disliked recording them himself. Dickerson took a deep breath and thought about it for a second.

He said “I guess maybe just me doing them. Because my last breakup was, like, in college and it just feels weird to like harp on — like ‘Wow man, yeah, I’m still tore up about you.'”

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You can guaran-dang-tee-it. The “Happen to Me” singer says “If I’m really writing honest music, I’m not still tore up about my college girlfriend.”

Dickerson is 38 years old and went to Belmont University from 2005 to 2009, so if he did write a breakup song about a girl from college it would be a memory that is two decades old and likely kind of foggy.

That’s not to say that some songwriters can’t and don’t get away with doing just that, but for Dickerson, that is just not his cup of liquor.

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