JD Shelburne’s album Raised On The Good Stuff album is out on November 14. The record includes “Little Heartbreaker,” a song Shelburne wrote with Rob Simbeck.

“I’ve had this song tucked away in my catalog since 2020,” Shelburne tells Everything Nash. “One of my great friends here in town, Rob Simbeck, and I got together and wrote this fun, rock and roll jam with a lot of attitude and uptempo groove. I wanted something that captured the spirit of ’90s rock, and this song has had that vibe since we recorded the session.”

Shelburne reveals he rediscovered “Little Heartbreaker” while listening to old demos on his drive home from East Tennessee earlier this year.

“One of my favorite lines in the song stems from the chorus and it reads, “‘If you love ’em and leave ’em, won’t you love me all night long / I may not last ’til morning but let’s see if I’m that strong / I can’t imagine there’s any better love I’m gonna find / If you’re a little heartbreaker, girl, won’t you come break mine.’ Everyone has felt that desperate urge to chase after love, and these words capture that perfectly. Most of us have been there in our own way. I believe fans will relate themselves in this song, and its infectious melody will make it an easy song to choose from this album.

What Rob Simbeck Says About “Little Heartbreaker”

Simbeck, a veteran songwriter, met Shelburne when he sang a few demos for Simbeck and his songwriting partner several years ago, calling Shelburne a “great guy, quick study, hard worker.”

“I knew he had a bright future,” Simbeck says. “He and I wound up writing together, and it just clicked. Sometimes he’d call or text and say, ‘Hey, something just hit me. What do you think of this?’ And he’d throw out a line or a title. And one of those was ‘Little Heartbreaker.’ He had the whole hook – ‘If you’re a little heartbreaker, girl, won’t you come break mine‘ – and a melody idea. I did what I usually do, which is sit down and just free associate lyrics, and then send them back to him.

“In this case,” Simbeck adds, “he picked some lines and a direction he liked, and then we went back and forth, first by text, then by Zoom, until we had it. I was so glad when he called me and said he’d been listening to it again and wanted to record it. They did a great job with it in the studio.”

 

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JD Shelburne Makes His Grand Ole Opry Debut

One of Shelburne’s biggest dreams came true earlier this year, when he made his long-awaited Grand Ole Opry debut, fulfilling a dream he had held for years.

“It takes your breath away,” Shelburne says. “Finally, I get to walk in the circle. Your heart, your adrenaline, is beating so fast, you just kind of forget your name for a minute. But it’s funny. So when I took my guitar out there, I put a little cheat sheet, with the lyrics of the verses of each song, so I wouldn’t forget the lyrics. And sure enough, I didn’t have to look down at them. It was muscle memory. So it was good. It was fun. I hope we get to do it many more times.”

Raised On The Good Stuff is Shelburne’s first vinyl album. Order the record at JDShelburne.com.