Allen Shamblin
Nashville songwriter behind 'I Can't Make You Love Me' and 'The House That Built Me', performing the quiet, plainspoken originals that others turned into hits.
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About Allen Shamblin
Allen Shamblin is a Texas-born songwriter who built his career in Nashville's co-writing rooms. He wrote 'I Can't Make You Love Me' with Mike Reid, and Bonnie Raitt's recording became one of the defining ballads of her career. 'The House That Built Me', written with Tom Douglas, gave Miranda Lambert a number one country single. Earlier, his 'He Walked on Water' was a hit for Randy Travis.
On stage he plays these songs in close to their original form, with an acoustic guitar and the story of how each one was written, which tends to strip them back to the lyric that drew other singers to them.
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