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Today’s Birthdays – August 4th

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Happy Birthday to today’s country music birthdays!

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HCM Daily Country Music News Update – August 4th, 2015

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This Date in Country Music History

2010 – Taylor Swift‘s single “Mine” was released
2009 – Gloriana released their self-titled debut album
2001 – Jamie O’Neal scored a #1 hit with “When I Think About Angels”
2000 – The movie “Coyote Ugly” hits theaters featuring LeAnn Rimes
1984 – The Judds scored their first career #1 hit with “Mama He’s Crazy”
1959 – Skeeter Davis joined the Grand Ole Opry
1956 – Jimmy C. Newman joined the Grand Ole Opry

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Keith Anderson to Release New EP Album “I’ll Bring the Music”

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:36:11 +0000

The album announcements keep rolling in! Keith Anderson will be releasing his 6-track EP I’ll Bring the Music on May 12th. Judging on the songwriters involved alone, this is going to be one heck of an album to listen to!

“After taking a break when my mother passed away, it gave me a chance to focus on my growing family and appreciate the blessings in my life. I used that fire to create this music. I can’t wait for people to hear it,” explains Anderson.

Track Listing

“I’LL BRING THE MUSIC” (Keith Anderson / Craig Wiseman)
“WILD GIRLS” (Keith Anderson / David Lee Murphy / George Ducas)
“HARD TO GET OVER” (Keith Anderson / Kyle Jacobs / Billy Montana)
“TIGHT WHITE WIFE BEATER” (Acoustic) (Keith Anderson / Jeffrey Steele)
“YOUR TOWN FOR NOW” (Keith Anderson / Dave Berg / Rivers Rutherford)
“YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE” (Keith Anderson / Tim Nichols / Jason Sellers)

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Jake Brown to Release “Nashville Songwriter (The Inside Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits)”

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:12:12 +0000

From the press release:

A hit song resonates across generations, genders and backgrounds. These #1’s become “our songs.” They are the soundtrack to our lives. The songs themselves become timeless, and the stars who sing them become legends.  Every song tells a story and, in his new book NASHVILLE SONGWRITER (The Inside Stories Behind Country Music’s Greatest Hits), music biographer Jake Brown reveals these stories – and one of Music City’s best-kept secrets. The book will be available September 9 from BenBella Books, at popular online retail outlets including  Amazon and in major book retail chains nationwide including Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Indigo and Books-A-Million.

The book exposes the fact that the majority of hits were written or co-written by an elite club of Music City songwriters, 20 of whom are exclusively interviewed within its 300-plus pages.  Presented in one volume are the “stories behind” many of the most memorable songs of our lives. Writers featured include Craig Wiseman, Dean Dillon, Bob DiPiero, Bill Anderson, Sonny Curtis, Tom Shapiro, Kelley Lovelace, Rivers Rutherford, Tom T. Hall, Wayne Carson, Chris Dubois, Dallas Davidson, David Lee Murphy, Freddy Powers, Jeff Silbar, Brett James, Ashley Gorley, Lee Thomas Miller and Neil Thrasher. As a bonus, exclusive commentary from Country music superstars Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and John Rich is included.

NASHVILLE SONGWRITER features American classics like “Always On My Mind” (performed by Willie Nelson), “Jesus Take the Wheel,” taken to the top by Carrie Underwood, and the Tim McGraw release, “Live Like You Were Dying.”   Additional artists / titles explored are:

Kenny Chesney “The Good Stuff,” “Living in Fast Forward,” “Summertime,” “Out Last Night,” “When the Sun Goes Down,” “There Goes My Life”
Brooks & Dunn “Ain’t Nothing ‘Bout You”
George Strait “Blue Clear Sky,” “The Best Day,” “Famous Last Words of a Fool,” “I’ve Come to Expect It From You,” “Ocean Front Property,” “Give It Away,” “Living and Living Well”
Rascal Flatts “Fast Cars and Freedom”
Lady Antebellum “We Owned the Night,” “Just a Kiss”
Brad Paisley “Remind Me,” “Then,” “Ticks,” “Online,” “Whiskey Lullaby,” “When I Get Where I’m Going,” “Mud on the Tires”
George Jones “Tennessee Whiskey”
Luke Bryan “Play It Again,” “Crash My Party,” “That’s My Kinda Night”
Jason Aldean “Big Green Tractor”

In addition to these never-before-revealed stories behind the songs, aspiring songwriters will find countless gems of wisdom about the craft and career of songwriting itself.  A few samples from the book:

“To be successful in songwriting, you have to write because you love it, not because you’re driven to get rich doing it.” – John Rich of Big & Rich

“When I hitchhiked down here when I was 18 years old, it wasn’t because I thought I’d get rich off of it, it was because I loved it. As far as advice to the next generation of songwriters: write, write, write, write and write some more. I’ll leave you with this: I can promise you that your 500th song will be better than your first one.” – Dean Dillon, 2013 BMI Icon Award winner

“When you write a lot, you do get better at it.   You learn about yourself, you push yourself, you grow, and if you do it a lot, too — a lot of it is to just do it.” – Craig Wiseman, Nashville Songwriters Association International 2009 “Songwriter of the Decade”

“A good title and a good melody and some honesty – there’s your formula for a hit right there.” – Dallas Davidson, 2013 & 2012 ACM Songwriter of the Year

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Craig Wiseman Raises Over $100k for Second Harvest!

Mike Carroll — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:03:05 +0000

photo by Mike Carroll

We had the chance to attend this great event on June 4th, and are thrilled to report that Craig Wiseman’s Stars for Second Harvest raised over $100,000 for the Second Harvest Food Bank! In an interview we did with him moments before the show started, he had predicted that they would raise somewhere between fifty to sixty thousand dollars at this event. Congratulations to Craig Wiseman on a show and job well done!

Wiseman exclaims: “When I got the numbers I couldn’t believe we finally did it! Since we started this show in 2005, it has been a goal of mine to get to $100,000 for Second Harvest. With help from all of the artists, and the continued help of O’Charleys, we finally reached that goal this year. Now I am raising that goal to $250,000!!”

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