“Rob was working at WNOX up in Knoxville and I heard him on the radio when I was over at college in Young Harris, GA,” Milsap recalls. Galbraith and Milsap have a friendship and creative partnership that has been going strong for many years. We played that song for people and we decided we couldn’t be friends with them if they didn’t like that song because we liked that song a lot. “I went over to his house and I told him, ‘Ronnie, if you don’t like this first song, I’m done.’ So I played him that one and he loved it. “We were doing a different album years ago when I found this song and I had like 14 songs I was going to play for Ronnie,” Galbraith recalls. “I think we actually got the definitive cut on ‘A Better Word for Love.’” “This song has been around town a while, a lot of people tried it,” Milsap says. The title track, “A Better Word for Love,” was written by Al Anderson and Gary Nicholson. “They should say something of course, about love and real life.” “Looking for good songs takes time,” he says. Great songs have always been the bedrock of Milsap’s career, and he’s devoted his life to finding hidden gems and bringing them to life with his own unique style of R&B-influenced country. When Rob and I started this project a few years ago, we decided some of those songs were so special… We wanted to build this album around them, so they wouldn’t be treasures only Joyce and I could hear.” “Over the years, they’ve kept bringing me unbelievable songs, and in some cases, they’ve let me hang onto them because I loved them so much.
“I have been blessed to work with some of the very best songwriters in the world,” he says. On A Better Word for Love, Milsap once again delivers songs from some of Nashville’s top tunesmiths, including Mike Reid (“Stranger In My House,” “I Can’t Make You Love Me”), Gary Nicholson (“One More Last Chance,” “The Trouble With The Truth”), Al Anderson (“All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down,” “The Cowboy In Me”), Jim Weatherly (“Midnight Train To Georgia,” “Best Thing To Ever Happen To Me”), Brent Maher (“Why Not Me,” “Lesson In Leavin’”), Allen Shamblin (“The House That Built Me,” “Life’s A Dance”), and David Ball (“Drinkin’ Problem”). 1 hits to his credit and has won six Grammy Awards. He has won four ACM Awards including 1985 Song of the Year for “Lost in the Fifties Tonight.” He has 35 No. Milsap won CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1977 as well as an unprecedented four CMA Album of the Year Awards and three CMA Male Vocalist honors. A post shared by Black River Entertainment his decades long career, Milsap dominated country and pop radio with such hits as “Stranger in my House,” “Lost in the Fifties Tonight,” “Smoky Mountain Rain,” “I Wouldn’t Have Missed it for the World,” “Any Day Now,” “(There’s) No Getting’ Over Me” and many others.
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