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Texas Songwriters Spotlighted at BMI
BMI played the happy host of a Texas invasion Wednesday night in the intimacy of its Writer/Publisher lobby. Troubadours Bruce Robison (Tim McGraw's "Angry All the Time"), Bill Carter (Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Crossfire"), Monte Warden (George Strait's "Desperately") and Sunny Sweeney ("Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame") swapped songs and stories before an enlightened crowd that included…
From News, posted 12.20.07
BMI Sponsors 2nd Annual Mucklewain Music Festival
BMI is proud to sponsor the second annual Mucklewain Music Festival September 28 & 29. Held in Pinewood, Tennessee, 45 miles west of Nashville, the event basks in the ample glow of southern art, music and culture. A lineup including BMI roots artists Todd Snider, Blue Mountain, Jason Isbell, Will Hoge,
From News, posted 9.17.07
2007 ACL Music Fest Hits Austin Sept. 14-16
BMI Sponsors Stage for Fifth Consecutive Year BMI, the leading performing right organization, is proud to present and sponsor a stage at the Austin City Limits Music Festival September 14-16, in Austin, Texas. The namesake of the long-running PBS series, ACL fittingly invades the Live Music Capital of the World each year with eight stages and a myriad of the world's finest live performers. Over the festival's three-day stint…
From News, posted 9.04.07
Trent Summar
Not that labels in music matter much — at least they shouldn’t — but Trent Summar has an evocative and altogether hard-to-resist term for the music he makes: Farm rock. That probably says it well enough. But in case further explanation helps, we’re talking about that intersection where Chuck Berry rock and George Jones country converge. We’re talking about love songs that veer off the beaten path with honest slices…
From MusicWorld, posted 12.12.06
Nashville Explores Country/Rock Concoctions on Podcast 16
BMI continues to share tomorrow's music today with its groundbreaking "See It Hear First" new artist podcast series - the first of its kind in the music industry. Available at bmi.com/podcast, edition #16 samples a trio of new sounds emerging from Nashville. Songwriters and artists Eli Young Band, Stephanie Chapman and Trent Summar's collective sounds…
From News, posted 12.04.06
BMI Sponsors First Annual Mucklewain Festival
On Saturday, Aug. 19, BMI will sponsor Mucklewain, the brand new festival created to celebrate the contemporary culture of the South, featuring southern voices expressed through music and visual art. The campgrounds of Whicker Park in Harriman, Tenn., 35 miles west of Knoxville, will provide the rustic locale for the day-long festivities, which kick off at noon. The two stages at the event boast…
From News, posted 8.06.06
“She’ll Leave You With a Smile” Breaks Into History Books
The #1 single "She'll Leave You With A Smile" hit several milestones in one release: the first #1 for songwriters Jay Knowles and Odie Blackmon, and the 50th #1 for MCA superstar George Strait. The song, from Strait's The Road Less Traveled album, is published by Sony/ATV Tree and Big Yellow Dog Music and produced by Strait and Tony Brown. To mark the occasion, BMI Nashville hosted…
From News, posted 2.09.03
BMI Talents Rewarded with Americana Awards Nominations
BMI writers and artists claimed a majority of the nominations for the debut Americana Awards Show, created by the Americana Music Association to recognize artistic merit and achievement in the Americana music format. Gillian Welch and The Flatlanders -- Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock -- received nominations in three categories: Album, Song and Artist of the Year. Double nominees were
From News, posted 8.19.02
Summar-Time Party on the Row
Trent Summar and the New Row Mob celebrated their #1 Americana single "New Money" during a rooftop party and special performance hosted by VFR Records and BMI at BMI's Nashville offices. "New Money" was written by Summar and Jay Knowles, and is published by Songs of Spark and Sony/ATV Tree. Summar (formerly frontman for alt.country faves Hank Flamingo) contributed seven other compositions to the…
From News, posted 11.08.00
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