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Sep 03, 2009 Jim Rooney (center) and Dickey Lee (right) present the Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award to friend Allen Reynolds on Sunday, August 23 in Nashville. View Photo

Sep 03, 2009 As Dickey Lee and Jim Rooney proudly listen, Allen Reynolds thanks the crowd of Nashville music industry executives gathered to watch him receive the prestigious Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award on Sunday, August 23 in Nashville. View Photo

Sep 03, 2009 Allen Reynolds, Garth Brooks and Jim Foglesong each receive the Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award on Sunday, August 23 in Nashville. View Photo

Sep 01, 2009 During a concert at the Wildhorse Saloon sponsored by the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI), BMI presented Charlie Daniels with several Million-Air certificates celebrating “The South’s Gonna Do It Again,” “In America” and “Drinking My Baby Goodbye,” which have each generated one million performances, and the Grammy Award-winning “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” which has amassed more than four… View Photo

Aug 27, 2009 Grammy Award-winner Harley Allen recently joined the songwriting staff of Harlan Howard Songs, a Nashville publishing company started by the late, legendary BMI songwriter Harlan Howard and his wife Melanie Howard in 1988. Pictured are Harlan Howard Songs’ Alisa Moore and Melanie Howard, BMI’s Jody Williams and Harley Allen (seated). View Photo

Aug 27, 2009 Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood, who are also BMI songwriters, co-wrote the trio’s first #1 single “I Run to You” with fellow BMI troubadour Tom Douglas and Lady Antebellum bandmate Hillary Scott. The creative hive celebrated the song’s success on Monday, August 24, with a party and performance at the Loveless Café and an afternoon reception at publisher… View Photo

Aug 27, 2009 On August 24, Lady Antebellum celebrated the success of chart-topper “I Run to You” not once, but twice, with a party at Nashville’s iconic Loveless Café and later, another reception at Warner/Chappell Music. Lady Antebellum members Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott, and Dave Haywood co-wrote the tune with songwriting mainstay Tom Douglas, yielding the group’s first #1 single. Pictured at the… View Photo

Aug 25, 2009 Shown at the South Carolina Broadcasters Association’s (SCBA) annual convention are Lee Brice, WPDE/WWMB-TV & SCBA President-Elect Billy Huggins, WCRE-AM & SCBA President Jane Pigg and BMI’s Mason Hunter. Brice, a native of South Carolina, entertained the crowd with his numerous charting singles and his most current, "Love Like Crazy," which debuted on radio this week. View Photo

Aug 24, 2009 BMI artist/songwriter Sunny Helms recently joined the writing staff of Randazz Music Publishing, a co-venture between former Alabama front man Randy Owen and Dale Morris of Dale Morris & Associates. Pictured are Dale Morris of Dale Morris & Associates, Sunny Helms, BMI's Bradley Collins, Randy Owen, and his son, Heath Owen, Vice President of Randazz Music Publishing. View Photo

Aug 21, 2009 Sony/ATV recently hosted a tailgate party to celebrate the #1 song “Sideways,” co-written by BMI writer Jim Beavers. “Sideways” is Beavers’ third #1 in a little over a year and a half, as well as his first chart-topper with frequent collaborator Dierks Bentley: The duo has composed a number of Bentley’s other singles, including “How Am I Doing” and “With… View Photo