When Gabby Barrett sings her No. 1 single “The Good Ones” Sunday on the Academy of Country Music Awards, one New Orleans household will be watching with particular interest.

Local singer-songwriter Jim McCormick, a Loyola University music industry studies instructor, co-wrote “The Good Ones” with Barrett and two other writers. It recently became McCormick’s third composition to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, following Jason Aldean’s “Take a Little Ride” and Brantley Gilbert’s “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do.”

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