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Perseverance Rewarded: Pop Stoneman Enters Country Music Hall of Fame
BMI singer, songwriter and musician Ernest "Pop" Stoneman officially entered the Country Music Hall of Fame's hallowed ranks Sunday, April 27, during the traditional medallion ceremony. Family, friends and admirers were on hand to reminisce and toast the musical innovator, who passed away in 1968. In addition to Stoneman, esteemed singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris was also ushered into the Hall of…
From News, posted 5.02.08
Willie Nelson, Jeffrey Steele, Sony/ATV Earn Top Honors at BMI Country Awards
Awards Honor Premier Songwriters and Publishers at BMI's 55th Annual Ceremony The BMI Country Awards turned a spry 55 years old as they were held tonight, Tuesday, Nov. 6, at the performing right organization's Music Row offices in Nashville. Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) - the first home for country music - was also the first U.S. organization to honor the genre's songwriters and publishers with their own awards show in…
From News, posted 11.07.07
Angelo Joins BMI
Nashville-based songwriter/producer/musician extraordinaire Angelo recently joined BMI. Once the guitar player for Kim Richey, Angelo has written tunes for a uniquely diverse collection of artists including EmmyLou Harris, Martina McBride, Kings of Leon, Brooks & Dunn, The Mavericks and Trisha Yearwood. Pictured are (l to r): BMI's Bradley…
From News, posted 8.23.07
Music City Walk of Fame Inducts BMI’s Frances Preston, The Crickets & John Hiatt
The Music City Walk of Fame made its second round of inductions Sunday, April 22 at 3 p.m. in the Hall of Fame Park in downtown Nashville. Esteemed former BMI President & CEO Frances Preston was inducted alongside several legendary BMI songwriter/artists: rock architects The Crickets and gilt-edged singer/songwriter John Hiatt. Other honorees included Emmylou Harris, Wynonna Judd and Michael W.…
From News, posted 4.20.07
‘These Days,’ It’s Good To Be Vince Gill
Vince Gill’s easily identified tenor has long graced country airwaves, delivering sly lyrics that are risible, contemplative or romantic, always coupled with his oft-overlooked masterful lead guitar. His latest project is a Herculean effort — daunting to mere mortals like the rest of us. The feat: a four-CD, 43-original song masterpiece, each piece of which Gill either wrote or co-wrote and co-produced. Entitled These Days, each disc within the box…
From MusicWorld, posted 12.22.06
Stephanie Chapman
There’s something in the water around the Washington, D.C. area. From Emmylou Harris to Mary Chapin Carpenter, the nation’s capital has delivered smart, female singer-songwriters whose voices and songs enjoy a home with music fans from all genres. Stephanie Chapman, the oldest daughter of five children, considers herself lucky to not only be from the same fertile territory as these women, but also to have had them as role models…
From MusicWorld, posted 12.12.06
Gustavo Santaolalla Climbs to the Top of the Mountain
Noted composer Gustavo Santaolalla said when he first got the script to the Oscar-winning movie Brokeback Mountain, he saw it as a romantic tale. “I always saw it as a story of love. I compared what was different or similar to a traditional love story. These personalities get married, have families, and it just never really hit me as a gay movie,” Santaolalla said in a recent…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.12.06
Kris Kristofferson Takes a New Journey Down ‘This Old Road’
Do the math and he's pushing 70 — but Kris Kristofferson is ageless. True, his hair and beard have long gone gray, and his singing voice is grittier than ever. But when he's on stage now, in his black work shirt with its tails hanging over his black denim pants, accompanying himself solo on guitar and harmonica, he's never looked or sounded better. Indeed, ladies more than…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.12.06
For John Hiatt, ‘Gruff’ Is Great
John Hiatt's current album, the playfully titled Beneath This Gruff Exterior -- his 17th studio effort and his first for the independent New West label -- has been widely acclaimed by fans and critics as the veteran singer/songwriter/guitarist's best work in years. The dozen-song album features 11 new Hiatt originals, along with an older number, "The Most Unoriginal Sin," covered in 1993 by Willie…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.16.03
Warren Zevon Offers a Lesson in Living
As a songwriter, Warren Zevon is one of the most articulate and witty observers of the vicissitudes, absurdities and ironies of modern life. He's given us glimpses at the "Werewolves Of London, the "Excitable Boy" and "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner." He has called for "Lawyers, Guns and Money, done time in the "Detox Mansion, and shown us what it's like to be "Poor Poor Pitiful Me."…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.29.03
Renowned Songwriter Felice Bryant Dies At 77
Nashville - Tuesday, April 22, 2003 -- Felice Bryant, who wrote some of the most popular songs in the history of Rock & Roll and Country music with her husband Boudleaux Bryant, died this morning at her home in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. She was 77 years of age and had been diagnosed with cancer. It has been estimated that the 800 recorded titles written by Felice and…
From News, posted 4.21.03
Beth Orton
"This album was initially an experiment, one of embracing the excitement of making music rather than going into it with fear," Beth Orton says of her new album Daybreaker. Orton's prior releases, Trailer Park and Central Reservation, featured an organic fusion of pastoral acoustic pop and trip-hop beats that's been embraced by folk fans and club kids alike. Daybreaker raises the emotional stakes…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.13.02
Tift Merritt
Like that “overnight success” story about the singer who suddenly made it big — after ten years of toiling in clubs — one journalist recently wrote, “Tift Merritt seemingly came out of nowhere in 2002 . . .” Merritt has indeed been playing small clubs in North Carolina and learning her craft, though not quite for a decade. But one reason that writer likely made such…
From MusicWorld, posted 11.13.02
Kathy Louvin Album Premieres at BMI Nashville
BMI Award-winning songwriter Kathy Louvin premiered Promises and Lies at a listening party hosted by BMI Nashville (10/22). Produced by Scott Tutt and Chris Milfred and released by Reptile Records, Louvin's debut album features nine songs she penned, plus writing contributions from Bill Anderson, Michael Nesmith, Jon Randall, Margaret Findley, Jesse Alexander and Deric Ruttan. The daughter of Country Music Hall of Fame member Ira
From News, posted 10.29.02
BMI Songwriter Carole King to Receive SHOF’s Johnny Mercer Award
The National Academy of Popular Music/Songwriters Hall of Fame, has announced that BMI songwriter Carole King will be this year's recipient of the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award at the 2002 Awards dinner, set for Thursday, June 13 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. Other inductees were announced previously and include BMI songwriter/artists Barry Manilow, Michael Jackson and
From News, posted 5.01.02
Dominic Chianese Scores A Hit With ‘Hits’
BMI songwriter Dominic Chianese, who portrays Uncle Junior on HBO’s hit series The Sopranos, was honored at BMI Nashville (9/6) upon the release of his debut CD, Hits. Album producers John and Dino Elefante and Dub Cornet of The Sound Kitchen hosted the Italian-themed party, which featured Chianese serenading guests in Italian and English from the rooftop stage. Chianese, who as Uncle Junior brought…
From News, posted 9.18.01
Sam Bush
Twenty-seven years ago, the producers of the first Telluride Bluegrass Festival began looking for magic. They had a terrific location. They had vision - some called it nerve. But something else was desperately needed. It didn't take them long to find it. For their second year, they booked New Grass Revival, headed by master musician and bluegrass rebel Sam Bush. Today, Bush, the only artist who…
From MusicWorld, posted 7.16.01
John Prine
As he approaches his 30th year as a recording artist, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter John Prine looms as the master of his own destiny. A perennial favorite among critics and musicians, Prine has cultivated a devoted following with his rootsy melodies, Dylanesque vocals and barbwire wit. And though his songs have been covered by Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, The Everly Bros. and Bette Midler, among others, Prine’s biggest achievement…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.31.99
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