Wynn Varble talks Waiting on a Woman, Six-Pound Smallmouth & Nashville Tears on God's Country

Wynn Varble talks Waiting on a Woman, Six-Pound Smallmouth & Nashville Tears on God's Country

Author: The Brothers Hunt August 4, 2026 Duration: 1:27:01
Wynn Varble has written some of the most iconic songs in country music for Brad Paisley, Garth Brooks, and Easton Corbin—and he brought the stories behind them to God’s Country. Wynn joins Reid and Dan to share how he and Darryl Worley wrote “Have You Forgotten?” in just 90 minutes, the story behind Brad Paisley’s “Waitin’ on a Woman,” and the lessons he learned while trying to make it as a Nashville songwriter. They also talk about Wynn’s years as Darryl Worley’s roommate, catching six-pound smallmouth on Tennessee’s Duck River, surviving an unexpected Asian carp attack, and why the best country songs come from real life. Plus, Wynn performs the unreleased “Nashville Tears” and closes the episode with “Waitin’ on a Woman”—a song Reid calls one of the greatest country songs ever written. Subscribe to God’s Country for more conversations where country music, songwriting, hunting, fishing, faith and the outdoors all come together. #WynnVarble #GodsCountryPodcast #CountryMusic #Songwriting #BradPaisley #DarrylWorley TBH INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thebrothershunt/ TBH FACEBOOK: TBHhttps://www.facebook.com/thebrothershunt/ GCP FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/godscountrypodcast GCP INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegodscountrypodcast/ TBH/ GCP TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@brothershunt?lang=en TBH MERCH: https://the-brothers-hunt.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The weekly conversation inside God's Country is hosted by Dan and Reid Isbell, known collectively as The Brothers Hunt. Their background is key: they are working Nashville songwriters who grew up immersed in the Tennessee wilderness, and that unique perspective shapes every episode. This isn't a formal interview show but a series of deep, often meandering talks with major country artists and songwriters, focusing on the raw connection between their craft and the landscape. Listeners will hear stories about hunting trips that led to a hit song, fishing metaphors that unravel a lyric's meaning, and how the discipline of sports or the solitude of a mountain trail directly fuels creativity. The podcast digs into the genuine, often messy, relationship these musicians have with the outdoors-far beyond the clichés. It’s about the dirt-under-the-fingernails reality that inspires the music, offering a backstage pass to the moments of inspiration that happen off-stage and outside the city limits. You get the sense of sitting around a campfire with insightful friends, where the talk seamlessly drifts from guitar chords to gun dogs, from song structure to river currents. For anyone curious about the authentic stories behind country music and the wild places that birth them, this podcast provides a consistent, engaging, and surprisingly grounded listen. The Brothers Hunt facilitate these conversations with the easy familiarity of shared experience, making each episode feel like a natural extension of their own lives spent between the studio and the woods.
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