In a video interview from the 2016 SOCAN Awards red carpet, Country Award winners Jason Blaine and Deric Ruttan discuss co-writing Blaine’s award-winning hit song “Country Side”; each having dual careers as both professional Nashville songwriters and Canadian country artists; and Ruttan co-writing his second huge hit song for country star Blake Shelton, “Came Here to Forget.”

In a video interview from the 2016 SOCAN Awards red carpet, Pop/Rock Award winner Shawn Hook discusses being honoured for songwriting, how he was first signed as a songwriter in 2008, the differences between writing solo and with other people, and more.