With season two of Thank A Songwriter underway, podcast host and CEO of Sony Music Publishing Nashville, Rusty Gaston, tells Music Week why sharing songwriters’ stories is more important than ever. Here, he reveals which Grammy-winning country hitmakers are still to feature, and why music remains a “business of magic”...

Can you outline the podcast’s key goals?

“We’re trying to capture [general] ‘Hall Of Fame’ conversations with the broad range of songwriters here in Nashville. When I arrived ...