Arguably the most influential female songwriter of the Millennial Generation, Hillary has penned 15 # 1 hits, and won every award under the sun, from Grammys to Song of the Year at the Country Music Awards and even the Oscars, where she was nominated for Song of the Year. Becoming a household name overnight in 2005 when she co-wrote Carrie Underwood's Gospel Music Association Song of the Year winner "Jesus Take the Wheel," which won the Grammy in the same category, she has been a driving force in shaping the last 2 decades of female country music, co-writing chart-toppers including Martina McBride's "Blessed," multiple Carrie Underwood # 1s including "Wasted," "So Small," "Just a Dream," "Last Name," "Church Bells," "Dirty Laundry," and "Little Toy Guns," "American Honey" by Lady Antebellum, "Shotgun Rider" by Tim McGraw, and "A Little Bit Stronger" by Sara Evans. In just the last 2 years alone, she has been to the top of the charts with Little Big Town's "Girl Crush," Keith Urban's "Blue Ain't Your Color," and "Every Storm Runs Out of Rain" by Gary Allan, and here, she tells the story behind them all, as well as her own of how she became a # 1 songwriter. https://twitter.com/hilllindseyfans |
Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Shane McAnally is the HOTTEST songwriter/publisher working in Nashville today, with 31 + 1 hits to his name and a growing producer resume that includes a Grammy for his work on Kacey Musgraves' Same Trailer, Different Park. He owns SMACK Music, a literal hit factory responsible for some of the biggest country music hits in recent years for every major star from Keith Urban's "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" and "Female," Brad Paisley's "American Kids" and Kenny Chesney's recent # 1 "Get Along"
to newcomers like Sam Hunt's monster smash "Body Like a Back Road" to Thomas Rhett's "T-Shirt" and Midland's "Drinkin' Problem" and a catalog of already-classics like The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two," Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart" and "Vice," "Different For Girls" by Dierks Bentley, and on and on.
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One of Nashville’s strongest female hit writers, Matraca Berg’s highlights include "The Last One to Know" by Reba McEntire, "Wrong Side of Memphis" by Trisha Yearwood, "Strawberry Wine" by Deana Carter, "Faking Love" by Karen Brooks/T.G. Sheppard, "I'm that Kind of Girl" by Patty Loveless, "Wild Angels" by Martina McBride, "All I Want is Everything" by Mindy McCready, "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" by Dixie Chicks, "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today" by Gretchen Wilson, and "You and Tequila" by Kenny Chesney and Grace Potter. https://twitter.com/matracaberg www.matracaberg.com |
NSAI Songwriter of the Year winner Scotty Emerick is known as one of Toby Keith's primary co-hit writers, Emerick's # 1 credits include "I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight," "Beer for My Horses" (featuring Willie Nelson), "I Love This Bar," "Whiskey Girl," and "As Good As I Once Was," along with "A Little Too Late" (# 2), "Get Drunk and Be Somebody" (# 3) "Go With Her" and "Big Blue Note," as well as popular George Strait cuts including "Give Me More Time," "He's Got That Something Special," "I Ain't Her Cowboy Anymore,"and "If Its Gonna Rain" among other high-profile cuts. |
Rhett Akins has scored his first # 1 in his own right with 1996's "Don't Get Me Started," among 14 singles throughout his solo career, including his biggest smash # 1 hit, "That Ain't My Truck." As a songwriter in the Millennium, Akins has become as well known for penning hits for peers including "All About Tonight" (# 1) and "Boys 'Round Here" (# 2) by Blake Shelton, "Take a Back Road" (# 1) by Rodney Atkins, "Hey Girl" (# 5) by Billy Currington, Jason Aldean's "When She Says Baby" (# 2), "It Goes Like This" (# 2) and "Get Me Some of That" (# 4) by Thomas Rhett, "Gimmie That Girl"(# 1) by Joe Nichols, "Ready, Set, Roll" (# 5) by Chase Rice, and "All Over Me" (# 1) by Josh Turner among many others. www.rhettakins.comhttps://twitter.com/rhettakins |
Marla Cannon-Goodman is one of Nashville's most celebrated Millennial female songwriters, co-writing #1s including "Cleaning This Gun (Come On Boy)" by Rodney Atkins, "Don't Make Me" by Blake Shelton, "Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo" by Tracy Byrd, and "The Fool" by Lee Ann Womack, and more recently, on Merle Haggard's critically-and-commercally celebrated final studio collaboration, Django and Jimmie, where Marla wrote “Unfair Weather Friend.” https://twitter.com/cannon_marla |
Chris Thompkins is best-known for co-writing Carrie Unerwood's # 1 sensation "Before He Cheats," along with her # 1 "Blown Away," and his hit streak has been on fire the last decade, including Florida/Georgia Line's # 1 smash "Dirt" and "Round Here" (# 3), Jason Aldean's # 1 hits "Burnin' It Down," Tim McGraw's # 1 hit "Southern Girl," Dierks Bentley's "Drunk on a Plane" (# 3), the Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw top 20 hit "Feel Like a Rockstar," and McGraw's solo hit "One of Those Nights" (# 3) among others. www.bigloudshirt.com/chris-tompkins |
Imagine a stylistic blend of Country, Folk, and Americana, and you have Lori McKenna, who People Magazine highlights "as a songwriter, McKenna has a gift for turning domestic detail into universal truth," and with back-to-back Grammys for Best Country Song for Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" and Tim McGraw's "Humble and Kind," while she's gained equal stardom as an artist in her own right in recent years with her Grammy-nominated solo albums The Bird and the Rifle and more recently, the wildly-successful The Tree - her 11th solo LP - and its hit single "People Get Old," which she recently performed on Late Night with Stephen Colbert. www.lorimckenna.com |
Luke Laird's 19 # 1 singles including "American Kids" by Kenny Chesney, Little Big Town's "Pontoon," "I See You" by Luke Bryan, "A Little Bit Stronger" by Sara Evans, "Drink in My Hand" and "Talledega" by Eric Church, "Same Trailer, Different Park" by Kacey Musgraves, and "So Small," "Last Name," "Temporary Home" and "Undo It" by Carrie Underwood, "Take a Back Road" by Rodney Atkins, Chris Young's "You," and recent returns to the top of the charts with Jon Pardi's "Head Over Boots" and Thomas Rhett's "T-Shirt." https://twitter.com/lukelaird www.creativenationmusic.com |
Chris DeStefano is best-known for Carrie Underwood's recent cross-over hit “Something in the Water,” which reached # 2 on the Hot Country Charts and # 1 on the Hot Christian Songs Chart and “Little Toy Guns,” Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood's 2014 # 1 smash “Somethin" Bad” and “Hey Ya” by Billy Currington, Jana Kramer's “Why Ya Wanna” (# 3), “Don"t Ya” by Brett Eldredge (# 5), “Aw Naw” (# 4) by Chris Young, “Rewind” (# 3) by Rascal Flatts, American Idol finalist Lauren Alaina's “Barefoot and Buckwild” among other singles. https://twitter.com/destefanomusic |
Tia Sillers co-wrote the international smash "I Hope You Dance" by LeeAnne Womack, which won a 2001 Grammy Award for Best Country Song, as well as crossover hits including Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s biggest hit "Blue On Black," and "There’s Your Trouble" by Dixie Chicks, a # 1 smash that won a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and the # 2 Alan Jackson smash "That’d Be Alright." littleextramusic.com https://twitter.com/markselbyrocks |
Rodney Clawson crossed something every hit country writer has on his bucket list when he had a George Strait cut with his 2008 # 1 hit "I Saw God Today,"earning him a CMA Song of the Year nomination. Clawson's other chart-toppers include Jason Aldean's # 1 hits "Why," "Take a Little Ride," "Crazy Town" (# 2), "Amarillo Sky" (# 5) and "Johnny Cash" (# 6), Blake Shelton's # 1 hits "Drink On It" and "Sure Be Cool If You Did," Florida/Georgia Line's Top 5 hit "Get Your Shine On," Luke Bryan's ASCAP Country Music Awards' Song of the Year winning # 1 smash "Drunk On You,"Lady Antebellum's Top 5 hit "Bartender,"and Big & Rich's # 1 hit "Lost In the Moment." https://twitter.com/rodneylama |
NPR has celebrated her in recent years as "one of Nashville's premier songwriters," and by her record of # 1 hits in recent years, its not hard to understand why. From her role as Miranda Lambert's longtime muse - where the two have co-written # 1s including "White Liar," "Only Prettier," "Baggage Claim," "Automatic," and the ACM Awards Album of the Year winner The Weight of These Wings, Little Big Town's "Tornado," along with her own critically-acclaimed solo album Puxico. https://twitter.com/nataliehemby |
Ben Hayslip rounds out the Peach Pickers writing trio, Ben Hayslip has made a name for himself in Nashville co-writing hits like the # 1 smash "I Don't Want This Night to End" by Luke Bryan, the Grammy-nominated "I'm Gonna Love You Through It" (# 4) by Martina McBride, "Farmer's Daughter" (# 5) by Rodney Atkins, "Put a Girl In It" (# 3) by Brooks & Dunn, "Honey Bee" (# 1) and the Top 10 hit "I'll Just Hold On" by Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean's "The Only Way I Know" (# 5), and Jake Owen's Top 10 hit "Anywhere With You" (# 7) among others. www.facebook.com/officialbenhayslip https://twitter.com/benhayslip |
Josh Osborne was born to be a Nashville Songwriter. With awards for Best Country Song at the Grammys, ASCAP Songwriter of the Year, and Song of the Year winner at the Music Row Awards, populating the Country charts for the past decade with # 1s including Kenny Chesney's "Come Over," Billy Currington's "We Are Tonight," Kenny Chesney's "All the Pretty Girls" and "Setting the World on Fire," Blake Shelton's "My Eyes," Sam Hunt's "Leave the Night On," "Take Your Time," "Make You Miss Me," and "Body Like a Back Road," Jake Owen's "Real Life," as well as stepping successfully into the producing arena with Midland's On the Rocks LP, Osborne has branched out into publishing as well as co-owner of SMACK publishing with longtime creative collaborator Shane McAnally.
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As among country music's most-respected elderly songwriting statesmen, Thom Schuyler has written timeless country classics including "I Don't Know Where to Start" by Eddie Rabbit, "A Little More Love" and "Love Will Turn You Around" by Kenny Rogers, "Are the Roses Not Blooming?" by the Judds, "Those Eyes" by Conway Twitty, "The Memories We Still Haven't Made" and "Until Your Mine" by Tanya Tucker, "Trains Make Me Lonesome" by George Strait, "Baby's Got a New Baby" by S-K-O, "Point of Light," by Randy Travis, "What I did for Love" by Kenny Rogers and Collin Raye, "Life Gets Away" by Clint Black, "And it Feels Like" by Leanne Rhimes, and "My Old Yellow Car" by Dan Seals. |
Luke Bryan's "Most People Are Good" and "Women, Amen" by Dierks Bentley are two of the most socially moving songs to hit Country Radio in recent years, and from three-time Grammy winner for Country Song of the Year, Kear's vast catalog of 20+ # 1s boasts super-star collaborations like Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift's "Highway Don't Care" and "God, Your Mama and Me" by Florida/Georgia Line featuring the Backstreet Boys. He helped make Carrie Underwood a bonafide superstar with the wild success of "Before He Cheats," "Blown Away," and "Two Black Caddilacs," and helped introduce Dierks Bentley to mainstream country stardom with "Drunk on a Plane," and helped deliver Lady Antebellum "Need You Now" and "Dance Away With My Heart," Blake Shelton's "Neon Light," and too many more to name. www.bigyellowdogmusic.com/josh-kear |
Whitey Shafer is a country music songwriting institution, best known for the timeless George Strait classic "All My Ex's Live in Texas" and other # 1s including "Does Ft. Worth Ever Cross Your Mind," "Tell Me Lying Eyes Are Wrong" by George Jones, and Keith Whitley's final # 1 "I Wonder Do You Think of Me" among many others, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1989. |
Grammy Award-winning songwriter Tim Nichols is arguably best-known for co-writing the Tim McGraw phenomenon "Live Like You Were Dying," as well as other # 1 hits including "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing" by Trace Adkins, "Girls Lie Too" by Terri Clark and "The Man I Want to Be" by Chris Young, and popular singles like Alan Jackson's "That'd Be Alright" (# 2), Dustin Lynch's "Cowboys and Angels" (# 2), Reba McEntire's "I'd Rather Ride Around With You" (# 2), Keith Whitley's "I'm Over You" (# 3), Lee Anne Womack's "I'll Think of a Reason Later" (#2) and "I Still Miss You" by Keith Anderson. https://twitter.com/TimNicholsTN www.timnicholsofficial.com |
Byron Hill has been cranking out # 1 country classics for decades, including such fan favorites as "High-Tek Redneck" by George Jones, "Fool Hearted Memory" by George Strait, "Hold You, Kiss You, Love You" by Toby Keith, "Card-Carryin' Fool" by Randy Travis, "Born Country" by Alabama, "Pickin' Up Strangers" by Johnny Lee, "Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous" by Tracy Byrd, "Dream Maker" by Conway Twitty, "Two Hearts One Love" and "People in Love" by Kenny Rogers, "Thanks for the G Chord" and "Cloud 8" by John Michael Montgomery, and "The Pages of My Mind" by Ray Charles. www.byronhillmusic.com https://twitter.com/ByronHillMusic |
Chris Wallin has written some of the Millennium’s most beloved Top 10 Country hits, including the # 1 hit "Love Me If You Can" by Toby Keith, "Don’t Blink" by Kenny Chesney, "Speed" and "Something to Be Proud Of" by Montgomery Gentry, and "I’m Tryin'" by Trace Adkins among others including "What Brothers Do" by Confederate Railroad and "Famous People" by Brad Paisley. https://twitter.com/chriswallintn |
Oscar-and-Grammy-nominated songwriting hero Tom Douglas is most celebrated for co-writing Miranda Lambert's "The House that Built Me," Lady Antebellum's "I Run to You" and "Hello World," Collin Raye's "Little Rock," Martina McBride's "Love's the Only House," and an Academy Award nomination for his work on the Country Strong motion picture soundtrack among countless other accolades throughout his career, including induction in 2014 into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. https://twitter.com/tomdouglasmusic www.tomdouglas.com |
One of today's hottest rising country stars, Cole Swindell was already a # 1 songwriter before he ever hit the top slot as an artist as one of the musical minds behind the MONSTER 2014 break-out hit that put Florida/Georgia Line on the map with "This is How We Roll," co-writing other hits including Luke Bryan's "Roller Coaster" (# 5), and Thomas Rhett's "Gimmie Some of That" (# 1), before breaking out on his own with a run of # 1s including "Chillin' It," "Hope You Get Lonely Tonight," "Ain't Worth the Whiskey" and current smashes "You Should Be Here" and "Middle of a Memory." https://twitter.com/coleswindell
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Nicolle Galyon's unique instinct as a songstress can be heard all over Country Radio these days, whether writing teen themes for RaeLynn like "God Made Girls" or Dan + Shay's recent + 1 "Tequila," "Female" for Keith Urban or "Boy" for Lee Brice, "Automatic" for Miranda Lambert or "All the Pretty Girls" for Kenny Chesney, her award shelf will no doubt continue to get fuller and fuller in the years to come. https://www.nicollegalyon.com |
J.T. Harding is one of Nashville's most colorful songwriters, from his pop crossover roots with Uncle Kracker's "Smile," his first # 1, through a long list of Country Radio hits including Keith Urban's "Somewhere in My Car," Kenny Chesney's "Somewhere With You," Blake Shelton's "Sangria," Jake Owen's "Alone With You" and Dierks Bentley's "Different For Girls," J.T. will no doubt continue to add to his hitlist in the years to come. https://www.facebook.com/jtxmusic |
2016 ACM Songwriter of the Year, 2016 and 2017 BMI Songwriter of the Year, and winner of the 2016 and 2017 Double CMA Triple Play Award, Ross Copperman is without question among the most in-demand songwriter/producers sending hits to the top of the charts working in Country today, with highlights among his 12 # 1s and counting including a long-term collaboration with Brett Eldregde on hit singles like "Beat of the Music," "Wanna Be That Song," Jake Owen's "American Country Love Song," a long-term collaboration on albums and smash singles with Dierks Bentley including "Black," "Women, Amen," and " ," Keith Urban's "Break On Me," and the recently-released Elredge hit single "Love Someone." https://twitter.com/rosscopperman
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Liz Rose and Taylor Swift will forever be synonymous by the generation of teenage girls who grew up on the Country phase of Taylor's career, across a multi-platinum spectrum of smash hits like "Tim McGraw," "White Horse," "Teardrops On My Guitar," "You Belong to Me," "Fearless," "Pictures to Burn," and more recently as co-writer of a new generation of hits like Little Big Town's "Girl Crush" and RaeLynn's "God Made Girls" among many more. Rose is owner of her own publishing company on Music Row, Liz Rose Music.
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It's a rare combination when a bonafied platinum songwriter is also known around town as a hit songwriter for other country music peers, and James Otto's success in both worlds has included his own # 1 hit as an artist/co-writer with "Just Got Started Loving You,"Zak Brown Band's "No Hurry,"Jamey Johnson's "In Color," which won Song of the Year at the Academy of Country Music and nominated for the Grammy for Best Country Song. https://twitter.com/jamesotto |
From Jake Owen's "Beachin'" to Thomas Rhett's "It Goes Like This," Jimmy Robbins has quickly emerged as one of Nashville's hottest new country hitmakers, helping take Marren Morris to the top with "I Could Use a Love Song," Jason Aldean with "Lights Come On," helped Blake Shelton craft his chart-topping hit with the Dazed and Confused-inspired-title "Sure Be Cool If You Did," gave Dallas Smith his Canadian Country charts # 1 "Sleepin' Around," Tim McGraw's Top 10 hit "Top of the World," Dave Nail's # 1 "Whatever She's Got," and Keith Urban's # 1 on both the US Hot Country Songs and US Country Airplay Charts with the single sensation "We Were Us."https://twitter.com/jammyrabbins
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From Jon Pardi's "Dirt on My Boots" to Lauren Alania's "Road Less Traveled," Jesse Frasure's # 1 successes lately keep growing, taking Chris Lane there with "Fix" and Rascall Flatts to the top of the charts with "I Like the Sound of That," and helped Florida/Georgia Line enjoy the limelight at the top with "Sun Daze," while at the same time, his publishing company Rythm House, partnered with Jay Z's Roc-Nation. Jesse's trophy shelf is crowded with a Dove Award, ACM Record of the Year Award winner, CMA Single of the Year winner, and Grammy Nominee in 2018. Jesse is also a celebrity DJ under the spinning handle Telemitry. telemitry.com https://twitter.com/jessefrasure
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Grammy-winning super-producer/songwriter Zach Crowell beams "I'm proud to be known as a Track Guy," and as producer/co-writer of Sam Hunt's 34-week # 1 "Body Like a Back Road," co-writing/producing # 1s like "Take Your Time," "House Party," "Leave the Night On," "Raised On It," " Cop Car," "Make You Miss Me," and "Break Up in a Small Town." Carrie Underwood would soon come calling, recruiting Zach to co-write and produce her # 1 "Heartbeat," and co-writing Underwood hits "Dirty Laundry" and "Church Bells," while his more recent co-writing successes have included Cole Swindell's break-out hit "Middle of a Memory," whike his recent producing success include Dustin Lynch's 4-week # 1 "Small Town Boy." https://twitter.com/zachcrowell |
Big Smo is a pioneer of the Country Rap genre, with over 100 MILLION Youtube views to his name, and the distinction as the first and only Country Rapper to sign to Warner Bros. and star in his own reality show on A&E for 2 seasons. Amid it all, he built a catalog of 10 studio albums and signature hits like "Kickin' It in Tennessee," "Workin'," "Anything Goes," "Kick Mud," and on and on. In the summer of 2019, Smo will release his autobiography, "MY LIFE IN A JAR: The Book of SMO." https://twitter.com/TheRealBigSmo |
"Having built a following over the course of eight solo albums and hundreds of live performances, Bonnet is a working man's musician and songwriter, bringing grit and raw honesty to a music world saturated with Auto-Tune and gimmicks," Blabbermouth.net declared of the former Moccasin Creek co-founder and lead songwriter, responsible for fan favorites that showcase his authentic Southern Rock and Country music roots on Creek classics like "Dixie Fried," "The South Never Died," "Red, White and Blue Collared Man," "Southern Renegade," "Old America," "White Trash Fabulous," "Porch Honky," "Being Country," and "Redneck Nation." Bonnett's been featured in over 50 million Youtube views between his hook on the "Hick Lyfe" theme, the Kinfoke compilation, Creek videos and his solo hits like "Too Drive to Drunk" (featuring Bubba Sparxxx), "Hillbilly Rockstar," and singles off his most recent solo E.P. Sinner With a Song. Catch Charlie on tour with his band The Folkin' Gasholes! https://twitter.com/CharlieBonnet3 |
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Freddy Powers (R.I.P.) - Co-writer of # 1 hits including "Natural High," "Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room Tonight," "A Place to Fall Apart," and "I Always Get Lucky With You." Freddy passed away in 2016, but not before being inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame, the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame, Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the . Powers' memoir, The Spree of '83, hit stores in the summer of 2017 in hard-cover from Waldorf Publishing, featuring exclusive commentary from collaborators Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, John Rich, Tanya Tucker, Mary Sarah, Pauline Reese, etc, and was optioned for film rights to be turned into a motion picture by Yakima Productions in 2017. Rolling Stone Country hailed Powers' memoir as "a freewheeling, often poignant oral history of one of the unsung heroes of Country Music."https://twitter.com/freddy_powers https://twitter.com/freddy_powers |
The late, great MERLE HAGGARD shared a 40 year friendship and collaborative musical and writing partnership with Freddy Powers he opens up in depth about in these pages, also chronicled in Powers' authorized memoirs, The Spree of '83, where Haggard is a contributor. Together, they penned great songs, and had even greater times together touring on the road when Freddy was bandleader and rhythm guitar player for Haggard's famed band The Strangers, where more co-writing continued on beloved fan favorites like "Silver Eagle," "Little Hotel Room," "All I Want to Do Is Sing My Song," "Ridin' High," "A Friend in California," "This Time I Really Do," "Texas," "The Okie from Muskogee's Comin' Home," "Man From Another Time," "More Than This Old Heart Can Take," "Wouldn't That Be Something," "Somewhere Down the Line," "Blue Jungle," "A Bar in Bakersfield," and many more. |
Whisperin' Bill Anderson's legendary run of # 1s includes "Tennessee Whiskey," and solo hits including "Mama Sang a Song" (1962), "Still" (1963), 'I Get the Fever' (1966), 'For Loving You" (with Jan Howard, 1967), "My Life (Throw It Away If I Want To)' (1969), 'World of Make Believe' (1974), and 'Sometimes' (with Mary Lou Turner, 1976).https://twitter.com/WhisperinBill |
Rivers Rutherford 'When I Get Where I'm Going' by Brad Paisley and the legendary Dolly Parton, 'Real Good Man' by Tim McGraw, 'Living in Fast Forward' by Kenny Chesney, 'Ladies Love Country Boys' by Trace Adkins, 'If You Ever Stop Loving Me' by Montgomery Gentry, 'Ain't Nothing 'Bout You' by Brooks & Dunn, and 'These Are My People' by Rodney Atkins. www.riversrutherford.com https://twitter.com/rivrutherford |
4-Time ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year (2009, 2014, 2015, 2016), 2017 ACM Songwriter Of The Year Nominee, 2-time Billboard #1 Country Songwriter of the Year (2013 & 2016) and 9-Time CMA Triple Play Award Winner, Ashley Gorley has a staggering 32 # 1 hits under his belt, the soundtrack of a generation that includes recent smashes like "T-Shirt" by Thomas Rhett, "American Country Love Song" by Jake Owen, Blake Shelton's "Guy With a Girl," Jon Pardi's "Dirt on My Boots," Today" by Brad Paisley," Deirks Bentley's "Black," Carrie Underwood's "Heartbeat" and "Dirty Laundry," along with past Underwood chart-toppers like "All-American Girl," "Good Girl," and "Don't Forget to Remember Me," Billy Currington's "Don't It," Rascal Flatts' "Rewind," Brad Paisley smashes like "Start a Band," "Then," "American Saturday Night," Luke Bryan's monster "Play It Again," "I See You," "Kick the Dust Up" and "That's My Kinda Night," "Your Gonna Miss This" by Trace Adkins, "It Won't Be Like This for Long" by Darius Rucker, Frankie Ballard's "Young & Crazy," Jason Aldean's "Just Gettin' Started" and "Tonight Looks Good On You," Chris Young's "Aw Naw," Randy Hauser's "Runnin' Outta Moonlight," Brett Elridge's "Don't Ya" among dozens of other Top 10 and 20 hits. www.taperoommusic.net https://twitter.com/TapeRoomMusic |
Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame inductee Craig Wiseman has 100 singles and 26 # 1 hits to his name, including the Grammy Award-winning "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw, along with the McGraw chart-toppers "Everywhere," "Where the Green Grass Grows," and "The Cowboy in Me," Blake Shelton's "Hillbilly Bone" and "Nothing to Die For," Kenny Chesney's "Summertime," "The Good Stuff," and "She's Got it All" among many more. Wiseman is also the owner of the wildly-successful BIG LOUD SHIRT Publishing company, where he's helped discover and guide the careers of a new generation of hit Nashville songwriters. https://twitter.com/thebigloudshirt |
Lee Thomas Miller - president of Nashville Songwriter's Association International - earned his first # 1 smash, "I Just Wanna Be Mad" for Terri Clark, also cut by John Michael Montgomery. Between 2006 and 2008, Miller topped the Country charts 2x with Brad Paisley's smash hits "The World" and "I'm Still a Guy," both of which reached # 1 respectively, and in 2008, wrote another of the chart's biggest hits with Trace Adkins' # 1 smash single "You're Gonna Miss This," which also earned Miller his second Grammy Nomination for 'Country Song of the Year'. He is responsible for creating "The Impossible" for Joe Nichols and co-writing Jamey Johnson's "In Color," which won the Academy of Country Music's coveted 'Song of the Year' Award, and more recently, co-wrote "Whiskey and You" with Chris Stapleton on his break-out The Traveller album, which won Top Country Album at the Billboard Music Awards and Grammy Awards in 2016. www.leethomasmiller.com https://twitter.com/lthomasmiller |
Chris Dubois’ catalog of # 1s spans across 12 # 1s and 20 Top 20 hits, beginning with his multi-year creative collaboration with country music superstar Brad Paisley, co-writing chart toppers including "Old Alabama," "Remind Me" (a duet with Carrie Underwood), "Anything Like Me," "Water," "Then," "Online," "Mud on the Tires," "We Danced," and "Welcome to the Future" as well as running SeaGayle Music Publishing. https://twitter.com/seagaylemusic |
Dean Dillon is a living legend among songwriters, regaled for his storied career writing many of George Strait's record 50 # 1s, including smashes like "The Chair," "Nobody in His Right Mind Would have Left Her," "It Aint Cool to Be Crazy About You," "Ocean Front Property," "Famous Last Words of a Fool," "I've Come to Expect it From You," "If You Know Me," "Easy Come, Easy Go," "The Best Day," "She Let Herself Go," "Living for the Night," and Kenny Chesney's "A lot of Things Different" and "I’m Alive" among decades more. https://twitter.com/deandillon www.deandillon.com
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John Rich got his start as a co-founder/writer/lead vocalist for the multi-platinum Texas outfit Lonestar, co-writing # 1s including "Come Cryin' to Me" and "Say When" before leaving one group to form another with Big & Rich, where his hit-writing streak continued with the chart-topper "Lost in this Moment." https://twitter.com/johnrich https://twitter.com/bigandrich |
David Lee Murphy shot to # 1 as a solo singer-songwriter with his most famous hit "Dust on the Bottle" and "Loco" before co-writing chart-toppers for Kenny Chesney with "Living in Fast Forward," "Live a Little," Jason Aldean's smash "Big Green Tractor," Thompson Square's "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not?", which received 2 Nominations in 54th Grammy Awards for the song in Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Country Song. https://twitter.com/davidleemurphy |
Jeff Silbar is arguably best-known for co-writing the timeless chart-topper "Wind Beneath My Wings," which hit # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart and won the 1990 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Album of the Year, and the Country music awards for Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association awards for Song Of The Year. https://twitter.com/jeffsilbar |
Tom Shapiro is one of the most successful country songwriters of all time, with an astonishing 25 #1 hits including the one that launched him, "Never Give Up On a Good Thing" by George Benson before turning his talents towards Nashville, where he wrote hits like "Wink" for Neal McCoy, "No Place That Far" by Sara Evans, "I Miss My Friend" by Darryl Worley, "Ain't Nothin' 'Bout You," , "Just Let Me Be In Love" by Tracy Byrd, "Loving Every Minute" by Mark Wills, "In Another World" by Joe Diffie, "Living and Living Well" by George Strait, "Highway Robbery" and "Your Heart Ain’t Busy Tonight" by Tanya Tucker, "She Never Lets It Go To Her Heart" and "You Get Used to Somebody" by Tim McGraw, "You Look Good in My Shirt" by Keith Urban, "On a Good Day" and "She Doesn't Know She's Got It" by Blake Shelton, and "Why Wait" by Rascal Flatts among 57 total top 10 hits. |
Dallas Davidson's 19 # 1 hits include Luke Bryan smashes like "Play It Again," "Huntin', Fishin', Lovin' Every Day," "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)," "Rain is a Good Thing," "I Don’t Want This Night To Ena," "That's My Kind if Night," and "Kick the Dust Up," Billy Currington's "That's How Country Boys Roll," Lady Antebellum's ''Just A Kiss" and "We Owned the Night," Justin Moore's "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away," Blake Shelton's "Boys Round Here" and "All About Tonight," Brad Paisley and Keith Urban's "Start a Band," Joe Nichols' "Gimmie That Girl," Brooks & Dunn's "Put a Girl in It," Jason Aldean's "Tonight Looks Good on You," and Trace Adkins "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" among many more. https://twitter.com/dallasdavidson https://twitter.com/thepeachpickers |
Tom T. Hall, BMI Icon winner, has a famed Best Of catalog # 1 hits including "A Week in the County Jail' (1969), "The Year Clayton Delaney Died" (1971), "(Old Dogs, Children And) Watermelon Wine" (1972), "I Love" (1973), "Country Is" (1974), "I Care" (1974), "Faster Horses (The Country and the Poet)" (1975), "That Song is Driving Me Crazy" (# 2, 1972), and top 10 hits including "The Ballad of Forty Dollars" (1968), "Shoeshine Man" and "Salute to a Switchblade" (1970), "Me and Jesus" (1971), "Ravishing Ruby" (1973), "Deal" and "I Like Beer" (1975), "Fox on the Run" (1976), "Your Man Loves You Honey" (1977), "What Have You Got to Lose" (1978), "The Old Side of Town" (1980). http://www.tomthall.net/ |
Bob DiPiero, inducted into the Nashville Hall of Fame in 2007, has 15 hits to his credit over 30 years among Country music's top writers, cranking out chart-toppers including Faith Hill's "Take Me As I Am," Reba McEntire's "Little Rock," "Till You Love Me," and "We're So Good Together," the great George Strait's "Blue Clear Sky" and "Cowboys Like Us," Vince Gill's "Worlds Apart," Brooks & Dunn's "You Can't Take The Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" and "Indian Summer," Martina McBride's "There You Are," Travis Tritt's "The Girl's Gone Wild," Montgomery Gentry's "If You Every Stop Loving Me," "She Don't Tell Me To" and "Gone," Sammy Kershaw's "Tennessee Girl," Easton Corbin's "Lovin' You is Fun," and Tim McGraw's "Southern Voice." https://twitter.com/bobdipiero |
Brett James ASCAP's Songwriter of the Year in 2006 and 2010, is best-known for writing the # 1 smashes over the past 15 years including "Jesus Take the Wheel" and "Cowboy Casanova" by Carrie Underwood, "When the Sun Goes Down," "You Save Me," "Keg in the Closet," and "Out Last Night" by Kenny Chesney, "Blessed" by Martina McBride, "Its America" by Rodney Atkins, "Who I Am" by Jessica Andrews, "The Truth" by Jason Aldean, "The Man I Want to Be" by Chris Young, "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" by Bon Jovi, and American Idol's 2010 winner Scott McCreery's smash single "I Love You This Big." https://twitter.com/brettjamesmusic |
Neil Thrasher scored his first big hit in 1999 with Reba McEntire’s "What Do You Say," beginning a hit streak that in the 15 years since, have included 6 Rascal Flatts hits including # 1’s like "Fast Cars and Freedom," "Take Your There," "Why Wait," "I Melt" (# 2) and the 2012 # 1 "Banjo," Kenny Chesney’s # 1 smash "There Goes My Life" and "I Lost It" (# 3), the Montgomery Gentry top 10 hit "Some People Change," Jason Aldean’s # 1 hit "Fly Over States" and the # 2 hit "Tattoos on this Town," and Diamond Rio’s "That’s What I Get For Loving You."
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Legendary songwriter Sonny Curtis has been celebrated for decades for writing among the most covered songs in Rock & Roll with "I Fought the Law (And the Law Won)," first taken to the top of the charts by the Crickets in 1963 along with "More Than I Can Say" in 1965 before reaching equally-iconic status in T.V. with his penning and performance of the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme "Love Is All Around," the Everly Brothers' "Walk Right Back" and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1991. www.sonnycurtis.com |
Wayne Carson (R.I.P.) is best remembered for writing Willie Nelson's timeless # 1 rendition of "Always On My Mind," which won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song before moving on to # 1 hits for Conway Twitty with "I See the Want To in Your Eyes" and "The Clown," made a hit by Twitty, "That's The Only Way To Say Good Morning" by Ray Price, "A Horse Called Music," covered by both Willie Nelson and Randy Travis in hit-making renditions, the # 1 hit "The Letter" by The Box Tops, which received 2 Grammy nominations, and "Don't Let The Sun Set On You In) Tulsa" and "Something’s Wrong in California" by Waylon Jennings among countless others. www.waynecarsonmusic.com |
Kelley Lovelace was awarded ‘Song of the Year’ by Music Row Magazine for his first # 1 hit, "He Didn’t Have to Be" in 1999, co-written with Brad Paisley, and his creative collaboraion with the country music superstar would span a Greatest Hits collection, including "The World" (# 1), "Ticks" (# 1), "Online" (# 1), "I’m Still a Guy" (# 1), "Start a Band" (# 1), "American Saturday Night’ (# 1), "Water" (# 1), "Remind Me" (# 1), and Top 10 hits including "Wrapped Around" (# 2), "Two People Fell in Love" (# 4), "Camoflage" and "Southern Comfort Zone" among other career-shaping fan favorites. His other #1s include "I Just Wanna Be Mad" and "Girls Lie Too" by Terri Clark, and Carrie Underwood hits "All American Girl" and "Don't Forget to Remember Me" among many more. https://twitter.com/kelleylovelace |
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