Popular Nashville Songwriter Really Wants to Move to Henderson, KY

The City of Henderson is gearing up for the annual Sandy Lee Watkins Songwriters Festival, which runs July 24th through July 27th in downtown Henderson. This is the 14th annual event and it marks the return of some of the most popular songwriters in the festival's history- Tony Arata, Don Sampson, and Roxie Dean, just to name a few.

My radio co-host (Mary-Katherine Maddox) and I recently had the chance to chat with Roxie Dean. She's a Grammy nominee for her co-writing efforts on the song "When I Think About Angels" by Jamie O'Neal.

Roxie has been a part of the Sandy Lee Watkins festival for years and told us that she would love to move to Henderson.

We also chatted about one of my personal favorite songs of Roxie's. She co-wrote the song "Coalmine", which was featured on Sara Evans' Real Fine Place album back in 2005. Remember this?

If you're not familiar with that song, there's a good reason why. The release of that song coincided with a horrific mining accident. As Roxie explains, it stopped a potential hit song in its tracks.

If you attend the Sandy Lee Watkins Songwriters Festival, you'll hear the inspiring, sad, funny stories behind songs that became hits on the radio- and, well, some that didn't. Heck, Roxie made a run for the charts of her own.

Some of the songwriters joining Roxie Dean in Henderson have written songs like "The Dance" by Garth Brooks, "Waiting on a Women" by Brad Paisley, "A Woman Like You" by Lee Brice, "Troubador" by George Strait and more.

Over the course of the four nights of the festival, live performances will be held at two different venues in downtown Henderson: The Elm and Rookies Sports Bar and Restaurant. Heck, if we can really convince Roxie to move to Henderson, you may get to see her at those restaurants and bars more than just a few days each July.

Here's the full schedule of the songwriters- who's performing, when, where and with whom.