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Jun 25, 2012 Cliff Martinez and Rolfe Kent play off one another at BMI’s “Coffee Talk.” View Photo

Jun 22, 2012 BMI hosted the 24th annual Music Row Awards on June 20 in its Nashville lobby, inviting the community to honor some of this year’s hardest working artists and professionals. BMI songwriters Johnny Bulford and Phil Barton were voted 2012 Music Row Breakthrough Songwriters of the Year for their hit No. 1 “A Woman Like You,” and BMI great Matraca Berg… View Photo

Jun 22, 2012 Friends, colleagues, and well-wishers filled BMI’s lobby for the Music Row Awards in Nashville. View Photo

Jun 22, 2012 BMI songwriters Phil Barton and Johnny Bulford perform their No. 1 hit “A Woman Like You” at the Music Row Awards. Bulford and Barton were named Breakthrough Songwriters of the Year. View Photo

Jun 22, 2012 BMI songwriter Matraca Berg, accompanied by her husband, Jeff Hanna of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, performs the Music Row Song of the Year “You and Tequlia” at the Music Row Awards. View Photo

Jun 22, 2012 BMI’s Clay Bradley welcomes guests to the Music Row Awards and discusses BMI Live, BMI’s innovative new program that pays songwriters for their performances of original music in any size venue across the country. View Photo

Jun 20, 2012 Honky Tonk Confidential, led by Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer (center), performs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s Flag Day celebration. The event, held June 14 in Washington D.C., included a ceremony during which BMI donated a collection of Civil War sheet music. View Photo

Jun 20, 2012 The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History presented a special performance of music acquired by BMI during its June 14 Flag Day celebration. Honky Tonk Confidential, a D.C.–based country & western band featuring Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer, performed four songs selected from the collection of Civil War sheet music donated by BMI. Pictured at the donation ceremony is… View Photo

Jun 20, 2012 Jake Owen thanks the team behind “Alone With You” on June 19 in Nashville. View Photo

Jun 20, 2012 Pictured at the “Alone With You” No. 1 party are BMI’s Mark Mason, Jake Owen, and BMI’s David Preston and Penny Everhard. View Photo