James has written with the following songwriters:

- Dan Rivers (Louisiana/Tennessee)
- Mark Narmore (Alabama/Tennessee)
- Chris Gantry (Texas/Tennessee)
- Ted When (Tennessee)
- Elliott Park (Tennessee)
- Steve Dean (Tennessee)
- Pete & Pat Luboff (Tennessee)
- Bart Pursley (Tennessee)
- Scott Barrier (Tennessee)
- Mark Carson (Louisiana/Tennessee)
- Jeffrey Joslin (Tennessee)
- Eric Haines (Tennessee)
- Trinity Faith (Florida/Tennessee)
- Niki Shepherd (Sydney)
- Julia Tindall Bloom (Minnesota)
- Nathan Bloom (Minnesota)
- George Murtie (Vermont/Tennessee)
- Eli Alger (Tennessee)
- Jeff Batson (Tennessee)
- Willow The Songwriting Dog (Tennessee)
- Lindsey Isaacson (Tennessee)
- Guy Christiano (Tennessee)
- Sunny Zebe (Tennessee)
- Music City Menace (Tennessee)
- Crystal Miller (Tennessee)
- Heath Rhodes (Virginia/California)
- Jillie Kerwin (Tennessee)
- Benjamin Michael Bowman (Tennessee)
- Mike Cali (New Jersey/New York)
- Stargurl (Tennessee)
- Brandon Butler (Tennessee)
- Russ Mason (Tennessee)
- Michiel Taylor (Washington)
- Rags Rosenberg (California/Tennessee)
- Dan Raza (London)
- Jesse Slack (Ontario)
- Lon Palmer (Ontario)
- David Kundysek (Texas)
- Suzanne Edwards (Oregon)
- Dave Lenahan (Tennessee)
- Eryn Michel (Maryland)
- Paul McDonnell / Pal Steelo (Dublin)
- Susan Harman (Oregon)
- Matthew Chinitz (Tennessee)
- Amanda Cunningham (Virginia)
- Trevor Silva (Tennessee)
- Gordon Donaldson (Victoria)
- Chris Wyatt (Arkansas)
- Sam Cooper (Tennessee)
- Jaye D Marie (Tennessee/Saskatchewan)
- Aaron O'Brien (Illinois)
- Dian Buckley (Tennessee)
- Christina Sikora (Tennessee)
- Gizelle de Guzman (Nova Scotia)
- Jaryn Gibb (Tennessee)
- Adam Howard Schneider (New York)
- Francesco Saxton (Tennessee)
- Nick Haynes (Tennessee)
- Finola Daley-Dee (Manchester)
- Sarah Harralson (Tennessee)
- Danielle Banks (Buxton)
- Emma Gale (Weymouth)
- Mark Anderson (Maine)
- Steven Cade (Tennessee)
- Nikki Dean (Tennessee)
- Michael Peacock (Tennessee)
- Rob Lannan (Ontario)
- Paul Norman Tapp (North Carolina)
- Jon Pattie (Tennessee)
- Hunter Wolfe (Tennessee)
- Rob Repass (Tennessee)
- Jerry Frohlich (North Dakota)
- Erin Wolf (Wisconsin)
- James Milani (Glasgow)
- Nik Newark (Cambridge UK)
- Fiona Hannon (Kildare IRE)
- Duncan MacGregor (Edinburgh SCT)
- Tamora Wilson (New York)
- Julia Tindall Bloom (St. Paul MN)
- Nathan Bloom (St. Paul, MN)
- Deborah Goldbaum Kelly (Longmont CO)
- Isabella Malmqvist (Stockholm SWE)
- Dave Schweizer (Los Angeles/France)
- Evan Lyles (Tennessee)
- Anna Zagerson (New York)
- Phillip Andrew Christiansen (Minneapolis)
- Melvin Purvis (Tennessee)
- A. D. Maclin (Illinois)
- Graham Bramblett (Tennessee)
- Taylor Whitaker (Tennessee)
- David Easterling (Tennessee)
- Dave Matzner (Wisconsin/Veracruz)
- Chris Perry (Illinois)
- Shawn Hedderman (Ohio)
- Colby Pelzel (Texas)
- Daniel Tanz (Minnesota)
- Marty Morgan (Wisconsin)
- Andy Doyle (Tennessee)
- Shane Willinger (Tennessee)
- Ethan Keller (Wisconsin)
- Robert Landsman (New York)
- Elle LaForge (New York)
- Donovan Howard (Kentucky)
- James Burling (New York/Cambridge)
- Nick Bognar (California)
- Brandon Payton-Carrillo (Wisconsin)
- Kyle Walz (Missouri)
- Richard Binder (New York)
- Thomas Ciganko (New York)
- Crísthopper Armenta (New York)
- Max Cunningham (Massachusetts)
- Carl Fortunato (New York)
- Heath Johnson (South Dakota)
- Andrew Beno (Wisconsin)
- Joel Lerner (Maryland)
- Maria Catherine Callahan (Tennessee)