“She goes, ‘No, I want to play you the songs on my guitar. Let’s just go out to the parking lot, and I’ll sit in the back of your truck’”: Back in 2006, a “fearless” Taylor Swift took a hands-on approach to getting her music played on the radio….see more

Whether you believe that Taylor Swift deserves her current level of superstardom or not, few would deny that she’s worked hard for it, and the lengths that she went to to get her early music on the radio have now been revealed.

In particular, they highlight Swift’s willingness to build relationships with radio stations so that they’d play her music – and that usually involved performing it to staff in person.

When visiting Detroit, for example, she dropped in at Audacy and met up with VP of country programming Tim Roberts, who recalls that Swift asked if she and her team could meet them for dinner.

Once there, she said that she wanted to play Roberts some of her songs – including Tim McGraw – so he asked the restaurant staff if they had a CD player he could borrow.Swift, though, had other ideas:

“She goes, ‘No, I want to play you the songs on my guitar,” says Roberts. “’Let’s just go out to the parking lot, and I’ll sit in the back of your truck.’”