Ted Lowe, President-ChoiceTracks, Inc., Los Angeles. Placements include spots for "16 Blocks" and "Take The Lead" movie trailers, Ad music for clients such as Coors and Honda; Television shows including " Without A Trace", "Ghost Whisperer", "Numb3rs", "Las Vegas", "Bones", "The Shield", "America¹s Next Top Model", and extensive placements on numerous MTV Network's shows including "Pimp My Ride", "Punk'd", "My Super Sweet 16", Jamie Kennedy's "Blowin' Up" and many more.

Jeni Anders and Ted Lowe.

D. Vincent Williams, Valenta Kiritani and Norman Devasure.

Norman De Vasure, Owner-Sunset Music/Norman Productions, Nashville. Placed Tracy Byrd’s mega-hit “Keeper of the Stars”. Cuts with Montgomery Gentry, Ty Herndon, George Strait, Reba McEntire, and many more.

Mike Geiger, Hit songwriter, Nashville, penned Niel McCoy's "City Put The Country Back In Me" and George Strait's "Adalida", and many more.

Perry Howard and Mike Geiger.
Perry Howard
Songwriter/Publisher Relations BMI, Nashville

Brian Rawlings

Brian Rawlings, Vice President-Creative, Disney Music Publishing, Los Angeles

Current credits include the platinum "High School Musical" soundtrack, the "Shaggy Dog" soundtrack,
Santana featuring Steven Tyler "Just Feel Better", and responsible for cuts on Aly and AJ, Jesse
McCartney, JoJo, Lonestar, and Travis Tritt. (to name a few).

Brice Long, Songwriter/Artist, RCA - As an new artist his new single just charted and he wrote Gary Allen's "Nothing On But The Radio". As a songwriter, Brice has had cuts on Josh Turner, Randy Travis, John Michael Montgomery, Tracy Byrd, Steve Holy, and Nashville Star winner Chris Young. Roxie Dean

Shannan Neese, Writer/Publisher Relations, SESAC, Nashville

 

Roxie Dean

Monte Warden, won his first Austin Music Award (for Best New Band) when he was all of 15 years old. The band in question was the country trio Whoa Trigger!, which the young Warden rode all the way into his next project - the even more popular Wagoneers, which scored a major-label deal with A&M after performing at the 1st SXSW. The band's "Stout and High" debut was released to worldwide critical acclaim and is widely considered one of the best country albums of the 80s. The early-to-mid '90s found Warden launching a solo career, resulting in three albums showcasing his signature blend of Buddy Holly hooks, hot rockabilly guitar licks and straight-up Texas honky-tonk. Warden's biggest success in recent years has been as a professional songwriter, landing cuts in several movies and television shows, as well as with artists like Kelly Willis, Patty Loveless, George Jones, Bruce Robison, Travis Tritt, and George Strait, to name a few. Warden co-wrote Strait's smash, "Desperately". In the fall of 2005, Warden was awarded his first BMI songwriting award for success in the country field. In March 2006, Warden was awarded the prestigious BMI 'Million-Air' Award signifying over 1 million radio performances of his song, "Desperately".

Brandi Warden, comes from a long line of country music veterans. Her grandparents, Don & Gladys Scaife, father, Phil Thomas, uncle, Ronny Scaife, and cousin, Joe Scaife, are all award-winning songwriters and /or producers, with the family's record sales in excess of 100 million. She began her own music career in the mid 90's in A&R with Decca Records, before moving to Austin, TX to marry songwriter / recording artist, Monte Warden. Since founding her publishing company, Moonkiss Music, in 2002, she has earned numerous Gold & Platinum records, had major label cuts in both country & rock, and several charted singles, including George Strait's "Desperately", which earned a BMI Award in 2005 and a BMI Million-Air Award in 2006. Brandi & Monte live with their three sons in Austin, TX.

 

Max T. Barnes, wrote his first hit song at the age of 19, Vern Gosdin's "Way Down Deep". Since then, he's had cuts with John Anderson, John Schneider, Randy Travis, and Joe Diffe. Max T. also wrote the #1 hit "Thats How Your Love Makes Me Feel" by Diamond Rio, and Colin Raye's CMA Song of the Year Nominee "Love Me". Max T. is in business now with BRO N' SIS MUSIC , who copyrights hundreds of huge standards from "I'll Be Home for Christmas" to "Back in Black". His production experience comes from 24 years in the studio as a guitar player and songwriter, as well as producing Jeff Carson, Rodney Atkins, Blake and Brian and Amy Dally for
Curb Records and The Marie Sisters for Universal.
Max T. Barnes


Sam & Annie Tate
Sam & Annie Tate, Sam and Annie Tate are one of the few successful husband and wife songwriting teams in Nashville. They write for Carnival Music, one of Nashville's "hottest" small publishers. They have had songs and hits with artists such as Randy Travis, Collin Raye, Gary Allen, Joe Nichols, Reba McIntyre, Mark Wills, Montgomery Gentry, Buddy Jewell, Ty Herndon, Kevin Sharp, Chely Wright, Sammy Kershaw, Chad Brock, Tommy Shane Steiner, Dan Baird, Chris Knight and others. They gave Chely her first hit single with the song "Shut Up and Drive" and were co-writers on Sammy Kershaw's recent top 40 hit, "I Want My Money Back". They penned the 2004 hit "Somebody" for Reba McEntire which topped the Billboard chart and was Reba’s 33rd number 1 song. This year gave the Tates their biggest hit to date. “If You’re Going Through Hell” spent four weeks at number one for Rodney Atkins.

Sam and Annie have also had songs in commercials, TV shows ("ER") and in the movies: "Miss Congeniality II" Sandra Bullock's latest, "Space Truckers" starring Dennis Hopper, "Black Dog" with Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis, and "The Big One" with Michael Moore." They have been awarded six gold records and three platinum records as well as many Sesac performance awards and a highly coveted Nashville Songwriters' Association Creativity Award.

Both Sam and Annie had successful performing careers before they met. Sam has been a staff songwriter in Nashville and Los Angeles since the age of 19, writing country music, commercial jingles and songs for TV and movies, including Cannonball Run, Simon and Simon and the Fall Guy. As an artist he was an opening act for the likes of John Prine, Buffy Saint-Marie and Steve Martin. Annie is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Stanford University graduate with a degree in psychology who has enough road band experience under her belt to qualify as a veteran. She traveled everywhere from Las Vegas to Alaska, but left the road to spend more time writing. It was a good decision. Annie's first demos (produced by Sam) landed her a record deal, a national Exxon commercial, a movie theme song and a wedding ring. Sam and Annie write about their experiences --- about loving and losing, about dreaming of something better and about border towns and all the colorful people who live there. Like Annie always says, "if you want to know us, listen to our songs." They have been partners in music and life now for 18 years.

Carie Long, started her career in A&R at MCA Records in 1996. She moved to Sony Records with Mark Wright in 2003 and currently serves as Director of A&R for Sony/BMG Nashville. She has worked on projects with Brooks and Dunn, Montgomery Gentry, Lee Ann Womack, Josh Turner, Gretchen Wilson, Gary Allan, and Van Zant, among others. Carie Long
Juli Newton-Griffith
Juli Newton-Griffith
Growing up in Edmond, Oklahoma, Juli was heavily involved in theater and music. Working behind the scenes proved well for her so she moved to Nashville to pursue a career. She first worked under Stewart Harris at Edisto Music as Creative Director for 5 years, then took on her next challenge when David Corlew offered her the position of Creative Director when he formed Corlew Music Group in early 2000. During her years at Corlew Music Group, Juli was involved in securing more than 140 cuts with the company.

In late 2004, Benny Brown hired Juli as Creative Director of Magic Mustang Music. Juli now represents a fabulous group of hit songwriters including: Jason Aldean, Sherrie Austin, Lonnie Levelle, Craig Morgan , Garrett Parris , Jason Sellers , Amanda Williams and Kim Williams.

 


© 2005 txsongwriterscruise.com
design & graphics by Hometown Consulting