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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. |
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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. |
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Perry Howard
Songwriter/Publisher Relations BMI, Nashville |
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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). |
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| 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. |
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Shannan Neese, Writer/Publisher
Relations, SESAC, Nashville
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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