“Show me what you got!” Kris Kristofferson told me backstage at a Kristofferson show. I played a couple of songs, which prompted Kristofferson to remark, “Son, you need to get your ass to Nashville ...

So just how does a songwriter come up with a song? We posed this question to Old Dominion’s Matthew Ramsey during a phone call from Nashville last week to talk about the band's show at Country Thunder ...