BMI staged the 49th edition of its Country Awards last night, with ultimate honors saved for “I Hope You Dance,” songwriters Toby Keith, Marv Green and Aimee Mayo, and publishing titan Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. BMI Citations of Achievement were presented by President & CEO Frances… Read more...
Click here to see photos from the event Nashville, October 3 — Performing rights organization BMI staged the 48th edition of its Country Awards tonight, with superlative honors reserved for "Amazed," songwriters Al Anderson and Skip Ewing, songwriter/artists Read more...
For Tom Douglas, Nashville is much sweeter the second time around. Douglas spent a few years on Music Row in the early '80s as a writer and songplugger, only to decide the song business might not be the right place for him. Planning to get married and desirous… Read more...
BMI songwriters and artists were the leading nominees of the 35th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, with three recording artists recognized in five categories. After leading the ACM Awards in both 1998 and 1999 with four victories, Faith Hill vies for honors in five categories:… Read more...
Though they hail from the unlikely country-music mecca of Cincinnati, the six-man band known as Yankee Grey offers ample evidence of its honky-tonk credentials on its debut effort Untamed, which finds the sextet balancing good-naturedly rowdy tunes and heart-on-sleeve ballads. Eight of the album’s 10 songs, including the infectious… Read more...
