Steve Azar http://www.bmi.com/affiliate/rss/C117 This BMI RSS feed contains news articles, events, and musicworld articles for a specific affiliate or group. en affiliates@bmi.com Copyright 2008 2008-07-05T00:29:00-05:00 ‘I Don’t Have To Be Me’ Receives Million-Air Award http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/234212 Artists, Azar, Steve, Musical Styles, Country Steve Azar and his publishing company, Misterssippi Music, received BMI Million-Air certificates for Azar's hit "I Don't Have To Be Me ('Til Monday)." Co-written with fellow BMI writers R.C. Bannon and Jason Young, the BMI Country Award-winning song appears on Azar's 2002 release Waitin' On Joe. Based on an average length of three minutes, one million airplays is the equivalent of 50,000 hours or 5.7 years of continuous airplay.

BMI's Thomas Cain presents Steve Azar with his Million-Air certificates

photo by Brian Tipton

]]> 2004-10-14T18:00:00-05:00 about his songwriting http://www.bmi.com/podcasts/container/133279 Steve Azar discusses about his songwriting Azar, Steve, Country, In Their Own Words, Video, 2003, BMI Country Awards 2003-11-03T17:00:00-05:00 CMT’s Flameworthy Lights Final Nominees http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/200003 Artists, Azar, Steve, Crow, Sheryl, Dixie Chicks, Gentry, Montgomery, Gill, Vince, Hanson, Jennifer, Hill, Faith, Keith, Toby, Kid Rock, McBride, Martina, McGraw, Tim, Rascal Flatts, Shelton, Blake, Trick Pony, Twain, Shania, Urban, Keith, Musical Styles, Country, Rock, Urban Toby Keith, Faith Hill and Shania Twain each earned five nods. Other top contenders include Tim McGraw, keith urban and the Dixie Chicks. Fans may vote at CMT.com through April 5 to determine winners in each category. Trophies will be passed out on Monday, April 7, from Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center during a live telecast hosted by Keith and actress Pamela Anderson [7 p.m. CDT].


Toby Keith
Faith Hill
Shania Twain
Tim McGraw


keith urban
Dixie Chicks
Jennifer Hanson

BMI congratulates the following nominees:

FLAMEWORTHY BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Steve Azar - "Waitin' On Joe"
Jennifer Hanson - "Beautiful Goodbye"
Blake Shelton - "Ol' Red"


Blake Shelton
Martina McBride
Sheryl Crow
Kid Rock

FLAMEWORTHY FASHION PLATE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Dixie Chicks - "Long Time Gone"
Faith Hill - "When The Lights Go Down"
Tim McGraw - "She's My Kind of Rain"
Shania Twain - "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"
keith urban - "Somebody Like You"


Montgomery Gentry
Trick Pony

FLAMEWORTHY CONCEPT VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Vince Gill - "Next Big Thing"
Toby Keith - "Who's Your Daddy"
Martina McBride - "Concrete Angel"
Shania Twain - "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"


Diamond Rio
LeAnn Rimes

FLAMEWORTHY HOTTEST FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Dixie Chicks - "Long Time Gone"
Faith Hill - "When The Lights Go Down"
LeAnn Rimes - "Life Goes On"
Shania Twain - "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"

FLAMEWORTHY HOTTEST MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Toby Keith - "Who's Your Daddy"
Tim McGraw - "She's My Kind of Rain"
Rascal Flatts - "These Days"
keith urban - "Raining On Sunday"

FLAMEWORTHY COCKY VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Toby Keith - "Courtesy Of The Red, White, & Blue"
Montgomery Gentry - "My Town"

FLAMEWORTHY GROUP/DUO VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Diamond Rio - "Beautiful Mess"
Dixie Chicks - "Long Time Gone"
Montgomery Gentry - "My Town"
Rascal Flatts - "These Days"
Trick Pony - "Just What I Do"

FLAMEWORTHY FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Faith Hill - "Cry"
Martina McBride - "Concrete Angel"
Shania Twain - "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"

FLAMEWORTHY MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Toby Keith - "Courtesy Of The Red, White, & Blue"
Tim McGraw - "She's My Kind of Rain"
Kid Rock featuring Sheryl Crow - "Picture"

FLAMEWORTHY VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Final five nominees announced on live telecast; voting held online during the show.
Dixie Chicks - "Long Time Gone"
Faith Hill - "Cry"
Toby Keith - "Courtesy Of The Red, White, & Blue"
Martina McBride - "Concrete Angel"
Tim McGraw - "She's My Kind of Rain"
Rascal Flatts - "These Days"
Shania Twain - "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!"
keith urban - "Somebody Like You"]]> 2003-03-12T17:00:00-05:00 Steve Azar http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/entry/233290 Artists, Azar, Steve, Musical Styles, Blues, Musicworld, Hitmaker   It's a good thing Steve Azar is such an amazing songwriter, because otherwise, he wouldn't be doing what he's doing. "The only reason I want to write songs and play is because I want to play," says the Mississippi native, who quickly adds, "but what I play has got to be the songs I wrote. It just has to be."

Azar is that rare breed who's never made a living doing anything but playing music or writing songs. Even more rare, and a testament to his exceptional talent, is that he's had three publishing deals with the understanding that the publishers were paying him to write songs for himself - they all agreed not to pitch his songs to anyone else. The bet paid off. Azar wrote or co-wrote all 11 tunes on Waitin' On Joe, his Mercury Nashville debut album, released in April, and his debut single, "I Don't Have To Be Me ('til Monday)" reached number two in both Billboard and R&R.

The key to the song's popularity is pretty much what makes Azar himself such a success: Everyone can relate. Like all of Azar's songs, the tune's inspiration came from a slice of real life, a fundamental songwriting law he learned from the blues musicians who hung out behind his father's liquor store in Greenville, Mississippi. "Those guys always told me, 'Keep it real; don't make it up'." It's that honesty that has made Steve Azar a writer of songs that are both personal and universal. The album's second single, "Waitin' On Joe," certainly fills that quest as it encompasses his brother Joe's chronic tardiness, his uncle Joe's untimely death, and his own years in Nashville waiting for his dreams to come true.

The irony is, tardy brother Joe, Azar's manager, has changed his ways and is now "so punctual it's ugly," and Steve Azar no longer waits on his dream, but is full in the throes of living it.

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