Odie Blackmon has established his name in Nashville as one of the strongest and most knowledgeable writers in town. Blackmon received his first major break back when George Strait recorded one of his songs, "She'll Leave You With a Smile," and the rest is history.
"At the time we wrote that song, I had just lost my first publishing deal, and I was broke as I could be," Blackmon tells Roughstock of the song he co-wrote with Jay Knowles. "I had been in a phase where me and some of my songwriter buddies that were younger, had been trying to chase what we thought people wanted, but it wasn't working. Jay and myself had lost our deals, and we were kind of down and out. We wrote a lot together during that time.
"I remember us specifically sitting down and going, 'OK - we're just going to write what we want to write and not worry about anybody else' ... that's when things turned around for the both of us," continues Blackmon. "We wrote 'She'll Leave You With a Smile' during that era. I specifically remember the bass line and the verses as the same as like in 'Dear Prudence' by The Beatles, even though it's a country song. I was listening to The White Album a lot. It also kind of reminds me of Conway Twitty, but the bass line was inspired directly by The Beatles."
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