# Casey Beathard

Casey Michael Beathard (/ˈbɛθərd/ BETH-ərd; born December 2, 1965) is an American country music songwriter. The son of former National Football League general manager Bobby Beathard, and father of Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback C. J. Beathard, and country music artist Tucker Beathard, he has co-written singles for several country music recording artists, including top-ten singles for Gary Allan, Billy Ray Cyrus, Trace Adkins, Kenny Chesney, and Eric Church.
In 2004 and 2008, he received Broadcast Music, Inc.'s Songwriter of the Year award for his contributions.

## Early life and education

Beathard was born on December 2, 1965, in Torrance, California. He attended Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, where he was a football star and graduated in 1984. In 1990, Beathard graduated from Elon University in Elon, North Carolina, with a degree in business management. While in Elon, he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and played college football.

## Career

In 1991, Beathard moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to find work as a songwriter. After finding work at various jobs in Nashville, he was eventually signed to a songwriting contract; his first cut as a songwriter was the title track of Kenny Chesney's 1998 album I Will Stand, which was released as a single that year. (Chesney later recorded "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems", another Beathard co-write, in 2002.) By the 2000s, many other country music artists had recorded Beathard's material, including Trace Adkins, Gary Allan, Tracy Byrd, and Billy Currington. For his contributions as a songwriter, Beathard received a Songwriter of the Year award from Broadcast Music Incorporated in 2004 and 2008.
In 2006, he received his first credit as a record producer, when he co-produced the track "I Wanna Feel Something" on Trace Adkins' Dangerous Man album. This was also Adkins' first co-production credit.
A year later, Beathard received additional honors from BMI as the co-writer of Tracy Lawrence's single "Find Out Who Your Friends Are", Lawrence's first number one in eleven years, and the first single for his personal Rocky Comfort label.
Beathard's son, C. J. Beathard, is a backup quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He played at the University of Iowa and was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2017 NFL draft. Another son, Tucker Beathard, is signed to Dot Records as a recording artist.
His son Clayton, a quarterback at Long Island University, was fatally stabbed during an altercation that began at around 2:50 a.m. Saturday, December 21, 2019, outside of the Dogwood Bar & Grill in Nashville.

## Themes

Several of Casey Beathard's songs are up-tempo party anthems, occasionally centering on alcoholic beverages. The latter theme is most evident on the three cuts recorded by Byrd—"Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo", "Drinkin' Bone", and "How'd I Wind Up in Jamaica"—as well as Trent Willmon's debut single "Beer Man", and "The World Needs a Drink" by Terri Clark. He has occasionally shown a more serious side to his songs as well, such as Jeff Bates's "The Love Song", Billy Currington's "Walk a Little Straighter", Billy Ray Cyrus's "Ready, Set, Don't Go", and Eric Church's "Homeboy".

## Singles

| Song title | Artist | Co-writers | Peak | Release date |
| "Heaven on Dirt" | Gord Bamford | Jason Lee Owens Jr., Phil O'Donnell, Jenee Fleenor | 34 | 04/16/2021 |
| "Hell of a View" | Eric Church | Eric Church, Monty Criswell | 4 | 11/09/2020 |
| "Rock On" | Tucker Beathard | Tucker Beathard, Marla Cannon-Goodman | 2 | 03/06/2016 |
| "Like a Wrecking Ball" | Eric Church | Eric Church | 6 | 03/09/2015 |
| "The Outsiders" | Eric Church | Eric Church | 6 | 10/22/2013 |
| "Like Jesus Does" | Eric Church | Monty Criswell | 6 | 1/28/2013 |
| "He's Mine" | Rodney Atkins | Tim James, Phil O'Donnell | 23 | 11/7/2011 |
| "Just Fishin'" | Trace Adkins | Ed Hill, Monty Criswell | 6 | 3/21/2011 |
| "Homeboy" | Eric Church | Eric Church | 13 | 2/28/2011 |
| "Brown Chicken Brown Cow" | Trace Adkins | Kenny Beard, Rivers Rutherford | 39 | 8/17/2010 |
| "The Boys of Fall" | Kenny Chesney | Dave Turnbull | 1 | 7/12/2010 |
| "The Breath You Take" | George Strait | Dean Dillon, Jessie Jo Dillon | 6 | 7/12/2010 |
| "Come Back Song" | Darius Rucker | Chris Stapleton, Darius Rucker | 1 | 7/6/2010 |
| "Way Out Here" | Josh Thompson | Josh Thompson, David Lee Murphy | 15 | 3/29/2010 |
| "All I Ask For Anymore" | Trace Adkins | Tim James | 14 | 5/18/2009 |
| "His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love)" | Eric Church | Eric Church, Shane Minor | 46 | 3/24/2009 |
| "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" | Rodney Atkins | Marla-Cannon Goodman | 1 | 10/1/2007 |
| "Don't Blink" | Kenny Chesney | Chris Wallin | 1 | 9/10/2007 |
| "How 'bout Them Cowgirls" | George Strait | Ed Hill | 3 | 8/24/2007 |
| "Ready, Set, Don't Go" | Billy Ray Cyrus w/ Miley Cyrus | Billy Ray Cyrus | 4 | 8/11/2007 |
| "'Fore She Was Mama" | Clay Walker | Phil O'Donnell | 21 | 10/16/2006 |
| "The World Needs a Drink" | Terri Clark | Eric Church | 26 | 8/29/2006 |
| "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" | Tracy Lawrence | Ed Hill | 1 | 8/21/2006 |
| "Yee Haw" | Jake Owen | Jake Owen, Kendell Marvel | 16 | 2/27/2006 |
| "Do You Want Fries with That" | Tim McGraw | Kerry Kurt Phillips | 5 | 5/23/2005 |
| "I See Me" | Travis Tritt | Chris Mohr | 32 | 3/5/2005 |
| "I Got A Feelin'" | Billy Currington | Billy Currington, Carson Chamberlain | 5 | 1/5/2004 |
| "Hot Mama" | Trace Adkins | Tom Shapiro | 5 | 9/22/2003 |
| "Drinkin' Bone" | Tracy Byrd | Kerry Kurt Phillips | 7 | 8/4/2003 |
| "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" | Kenny Chesney | | 2 | 5/26/2003 |
| "Walk a Little Straighter" | Billy Currington | Billy Currington, Carson Chamberlain | 8 | 4/21/2003 |
| "The Love Song" | Jeff Bates | Jeff Bates, Kenny Beard | 8 | 12/16/2002 |
| "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo" | Tracy Byrd | Michael P. Heeney, Marla Cannon-Goodman | 1 | 4/1/2002 |
| "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" | Aaron Tippin | Aaron Tippin, Kenny Beard | 2 | 9/17/2001 |
| "Right Where I Need to Be" | Gary Allan | Kendell Marvel | 5 | 9/11/2000 |
| "I Will Stand" | Kenny Chesney | Mark Germino | 27 | 8/25/1998 |