David Ball http://www.bmi.com/affiliate/rss/C128 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 Texas Songwriters Spotlighted at BMI http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/535783 Laird, Luke, Hood, Adam, Sweeney, Sunny, Ball, David, McGraw, Tim, Robison, Bruce, Strait, George, Summar, Trent, Warden, Monte, Wynans, Reese, Country 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 Guy Clark, David Ball, Webb Wilder, Adam Hood, Jimmy Barrett, Luke Laird, Trent Summar, Heather Little, Garth Fundis and Walt Wilkins.

photo Bruce Robison (left) chats with legend Guy Clark (right).

BMI also presented a Million-Air certificate to Carter's "Crossfire" co-writer and Double Trouble member Reese Wynans, celebrating more than one million performances of the tune.

photo BMI's Jody Williams (right) presents "Crossfire" co-writer and Double Trouble member Reese Wynans (left) with a Million-Air certificate.
photo Singer/songwriter Bill Carter kicked off the performances.
photo Austinite Monte Warden performs his composition "Desperately," a hit for George Strait. Warden co-wrote the tune with fellow performer Bruce Robison.
photo Bruce Robison performed familiar hits along with songs from his newest album Eleven Stories and 2007 EP It Came From San Antonio.
photo Sunny Sweeney introduces her distinct honky tonk to the audience.
photo Bill Carter belts out another tune.
photo Pictured are (l to r): BMI's Jody Williams, "Crossfire" co-writers Ruth Ellsworth Carter, Bill Carter and Reese Wynans, Sunny Sweeney, Bruce Robison and Monte Warden.

Photos by Eric England

]]> 2007-12-20T14:39:00-05:00 BMI Stars Are Hot at CMT Flameworthy Nominations http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233120 Artists, Allan, Gary, Ball, David, Black, Clint, Brooks & Dunn, Douglas, Jerry, Evans, Sara, Gentry, Montgomery, Gill, Vince, Henley, Don, Hill, Faith, Keith, Toby, Krauss, Alison, Lonestar, McBride, Martina, McGraw, Tim, Nelson, Willie, Nickel Creek, Parton, Dolly, Rascal Flatts, Scruggs, Earl, Stuart, Marty, Tippin, Aaron, Tritt, Travis, Urban, Keith, Williams, Hank, Wright, Chely, Musical Styles, Country, Urban BMI writer/artists Toby Keith and Martina McBride collected three nominations when the inaugural CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards were announced in Nashville (5/14). Landing two nominations apiece in country music's first ever music video awards were Brooks & Dunn, Faith Hill, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Tim McGraw, Montgomery Gentry, and keith urban.


Toby Keith
Martina McBride
Brooks & Dunn
Faith Hill

Among the multiple nominees, Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Hill, Alison Krauss & Union Station and McGraw could pick up an additional nomination since all have clips in the running for Flameworthy Video of the Year. The five final nominees will be announced at the beginning of the telecast of the Flameworthy Awards on June 12.


Alison Krauss
Tim McGraw
Montgomery Gentry
keith urban

This premiere CMT event is an unofficial kick-off to the 31st annual Country Music Fan Fair, the world's biggest country music festival. Actress Kathy Najimy ("Sister Act," "Veronica's Closet," "King of the Hill") will host the show on Wednesday, June 12 at 9:00-11:00 PM, ET on CMT: Country Music Television. Fans can vote online at CMT.com through June 9.

Congratulations to these BMI nominees:

FLAMEWORTHY BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"Where The Blacktop Ends" keith urban
"I'm Movin' On" Rascal Flatts

FLAMEWORTHY VIDEO DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
Mark Seliger for "Mendocino County Line" (Willie Nelson)

FLAMEWORTHY VIDEO COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR
"Easy For Me To Say" Clint Black with Lisa Hartman Black
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" Earl Scruggs & Friends - Glen Duncan, Randy Scruggs, Steve Martin, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Gary Scruggs, Albert Lee, Jerry Douglas
"Inside Out" Don Henley
"Mendocino County Line" Willie Nelson

FLAMEWORTHY LOVE YOUR COUNTRY VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"Only in America" Brooks & Dunn
"Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" Aaron Tippin
 "America Will Survive" Hank Williams Jr.
"Riding With Private Malone" David Ball

FLAMEWORTHY "LOL" (LAUGH OUT LOUD) VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"I Wanna Talk About Me" Toby Keith
"When God-Fearin' Women Get The Blues" Martina McBride

FLAMEWORTHY FASHION PLATE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"Jezebel" Chely Wright
"There You'll Be" Faith Hill
"Man Of Me" Gary Allan
"Where The Blacktop Ends" keith urban
"Blessed" Martina McBride

FLAMEWORTHY CONCEPT VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"My List" Toby Keith
"Modern Day Bonnie & Clyde" Travis Tritt
"Cold One Comin' On" Montgomery Gentry

FLAMEWORTHY GROUP DUO OF THE YEAR
"Only In America" Brooks & Dunn
"I'm Already There" Lonestar
"Cold One Comin' On" Montgomery Gentry
"The Lighthouse's Tale" Nickel Creek
"The Lucky One" Alison Krauss & Union Station

FLAMEWORTHY HOTTEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"Let Me Touch You For Awhile" Alison Krauss & Union Station
"The Cowboy In Me" Tim McGraw

FLAMEWORTHY FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"There You'll Be" Faith Hill
"Blessed" Martina McBride
"Saints & Angels" Sara Evans
"Shine" Dolly Parton

FLAMEWORTHY MALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
"I Wanna Talk About Me" Toby Keith
"The Cowboy In Me" Tim McGraw

FLAMEWORTHY VIDEO OF THE YEAR
*Finalists announced on live telecast on June 12
"Only In America" Brooks & Dunn
"There You'll Be" Faith Hill
"I Wanna Talk About Me" Toby Keith
"The Lucky One" Alison Krauss & Union Station
"Angel Boy" Tim McGraw
"Mendocino County Line" Willie Nelson
"Modern Day Bonnie & Clyde" Travis Tritt

]]> 2002-05-19T18:00:00-05:00 David Ball http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/entry/233398 Artists, Ball, David, Awards, Musical Styles, Country, Musicworld, Hitmaker, BMI Country Awards David Ball knows the power of a song. His major label career was launched like a rocket back in 1994 when he released "Thinkin' Problem," the title track to his debut album. That honky-tonk smash topped the charts and birthed a platinum-plus album that saw two more of its songs, "Look What Followed Me Home" and "When The Thought of You Catches Up With Me," also hit the top spot, winning BMI Country Awards and garnering Ball Grammy and ACM nominations for Male Vocalist of the Year, as well as CMA Horizon and Song of the Year nominations.

Seven years later, the Spartanburg, South Carolina native has done it again, this time with "Riding With Private Malone," a song from his brand new DualTone label release Amigo (produced by Wood Newton). Written by Wood and Thom Shepherd, "Private Malone" tells the tale of a Corvette passed down from one G.I. to another, and has captured the hearts and imaginations of country music lovers all across the nation. And Ball is realizing the dreams of many an independent artist as well by having one of a very few independent label releases breaking the major-label stranglehold on country radio: "Private Malone" has reached the Top Ten on all three charts.

As a '70s music hero in the Austin-based and much heralded Uncle Walt's Band, the bassist and pure-tenor vocalist knew he had a strong fan base on which to continue his career after his days with Warner Bros. were done. Ball set out to go to his market with the kind of music he and his fans love, and on Amigo, he's true to his roots with numbers ranging from Texas dancehall to western swing and Tex-Mex country, with nuances of that South Carolina Soul and even a jazz shading or two.

Perhaps part of the genial Ball's secrets to success is a no-holds-barred approach to songwriting. "My only goal is that when I finish a song, I gotta like it," says the redheaded preacher's son. "I don't have any rules or any doors; there's nothing I won't try."

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