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Aug 04, 2009 Charlie Pate of Dixie’s Finest entertains the Nashville crowd with a guitar solo during BMI Presents at 12th & Porter, held Thursday, July 30. Also featuring the Henningsens and legend Bobby Bare, the lineup drew a unique hodgepodge of Music Row executives, Americana aficionados and classic country fans to the downtown Nashville hotspot. View Photo

Aug 03, 2009 The creative hive from iconic publishing house DebDave/Briarpatch recently reunited at a BMI-hosted luncheon in downtown Nashville. The company’s original partners Even Stevens, David Malloy, his father and legendary producer Jim Malloy, the late Eddie Rabbitt and staff writer Thom Schuyler scored a chain of hits that have now generated millions of performances. Schuyler’s “I Fell in Love Again Last… View Photo

Aug 03, 2009 Pictured at the BMI #1 party held Thursday, July 30 to celebrate Bobby Pinson’s “Already Gone” and “It Happens” are (l-r) Stage Three Music’s Steve Lewis and Lionel Conway, Bobby Pinson, BMI’s Perry Howard, and Stage Three Music’s Tim Hunze and Missy Roberts. Recorded by Sugarland, the two singles mark the second and third trips to the top of the… View Photo

Aug 03, 2009 Three Music’s Tim Hunze (right) lends a hand as Pinson performs a parody of his recent Sugarland hits, including a humorous spin on “It Happens,” at the #1 party held Thursday, July 30 at BMI in Nashville. Pinson co-wrote both “It Happens” and “Already Gone” with Sugarland member and BMI songwriter Kristian Bush, along with Jennifer Nettles. View Photo

Aug 03, 2009 During the #1 party for “Already Gone” and “It Happens,” co-writer Bobby Pinson thanks his family, friends and colleagues, including his longtime publisher, Stage Three Music’s Tim Hunze (right), for their continued support. View Photo

Aug 03, 2009 Pinson is all smiles as he shows off not one, but two #1 certificates presented by CMA during the #1 party for “Already Gone” and “It Happens,” held Thursday, July 30 at BMI’s office in Nashville. View Photo

Aug 03, 2009 Pinson’s son Cash (center) and wife Lucy (right) joined him in celebrating his recent chart-topping success at a reception held at BMI’s Nashville office on Thursday, July 30. View Photo

Jul 14, 2009 Big Borassa Music’s Brett Jones (r), who is an award-winning songwriter himself, congratulates staff writer Dallas Davidson (l) as BMI’s Perry Howard looks on at the BMI-hosted party held Monday, July 13 to celebrate chart-topper “Start a Band.” View Photo

Jul 14, 2009 “Start a Band” co-writer Dallas Davidson greets the crowd gathered at BMI’s Music Row offices to celebrate the song’s chart-topping success. While “Start a Band” marks Davidson’s first no. 1, it’s far from his first hit: He also co-wrote Trace Adkins’ “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” and Brooks & Dunn’s “Put a Girl in It.” View Photo

Jul 14, 2009 Pictured at the no. 1 party for “Start a Band” are Luke Bryan, Ben Hayslip, Jerrod Niemann, the song’s co-writer Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins, Randy Houser and Jon Stone. Bryan, Niemann, Atkins, and Houser have all recorded Davidson’s songs. View Photo