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She's co-written lots of source cues for film and television, including: West Wing, Hack, Shark, Bones, Numb3rs, My Name Is Earl, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Providence, Sex & the City, America's Top Models, The X-Files, My Beautiful Launderette, JAG, LA Doctors, Steel, Smoke, Date Fate, Sesame Street, and Horses and Men. Over 600+ cuts from Diamond Rio, Collin Raye, Aiofe Clancy, Art Garfunkel, Aaron Neville, Grace Griffith, Don Jones & Alice Newman, Wayfaring Stranger, Valerie Smith, etc. Her book "1000 Songwriting Ideas" at Amazon, Barns & Noble.....

Lisa Aschmann is a prolific professional songwriter, a singer, and an educator. She has recorded six CDs of her own and has had hundreds of songs recorded by major artists in almost every genre, including bluegrass, jazz, country, folk, inspirational, pop, and R&B. Click on any of the book or album covers for more information about her own publications.

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Gather round kiddies and we'll tell ya the tale,

of Music City and Big Dale.

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Tirk wrote the theme song for the mega-hit CBS television show, "Walker, Texas Ranger", "The Eyes of The Ranger" received the prestigious BMI TV Music award for three consecutive years. On the heels of a record contract with RCA Victor, .......

He appeared with such greats as Jerry Lee Lewis, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dickie Betts, Black Oak Arkansas, David Allen Coe, Earl Thomas Conley, and many others. He has also toured throughout the country as keyboard player for country music sensation, Toby Keith. More...

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Kim Copeland has become one of Nashville's top independent producers, with a wide and enviable list of achievements. Perhaps the best indication of how far she's come is her inclusion in
The Art & Science of Sound, the acclaimed video series on music production and recording put together by world-renowned producer/artist Alan Parsons, and featuring legends like
Michael McDonald and producer Tony Brown. http://www.kimcopelandproductions.com/

Tony Stampley Advisory Board of Directors

Tony has written more songs for Hank Williams Jr than any other writer. Songs such as I like My Whiskey On Ice and Women On Fire, I've Been Down, American Offline, Woman On The Run. The Nashville Scene, Video of the year and Top Five funny song of the year in... 1985 with the parody song about Boy George Where's The Dress. Had over 50 songs recorded by Major label Artist such as John Anderson, George Jones, Randy Travis, Moe Bandy and Joe Stampley, Confederate Railroad, and Guitar Legend Lonnie Mack. Most recently "Heal Me " on Billy Curringtons latest release and tons more...

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Dan Wunsch is the past editor of Nashville Music Guide, a successful music publication founded in 1995 which he sold in January of 2010. In June of this year after actively searching for a literary agent for less than three months, his screenplays and reality show treatments caught the attention of the Robb Company, a talent agency in LA, and the company has signed Wunsch to a one year literary representation contract. Wunsch describes his writing as that of an “entertaining” Michael Moore. Even though his screenplays are “fictional,” he writes from personal experience and researches his subject matter, so they end up being expository in nature. Wunsch currently has four completed scripts and several TV treatments. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Science.

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Sure-Fire Music was started in the Wilburn's Family home by Teddy, Doyle and then neighbor Don Helms over 5 decades ago. Teddy and Doyle wanted to provide something that they could continue to work at when it was no longer feasible for them to spend so much time on the road.

They soon found that the success of the company made it impossible for them to keep up with the work and continue to tour around the country on show dates. To solve this problem their two older brothers Leslie and Lester joined the company to handle the daily business.

It wasn't long before the Company became too large to run from the Little House, the Boys, as well as Mom and Pop all shared. They relocated the company office to the Cumberland Lodge Building in downtown Nashville which was also home to Tree Publishing. The building was located next to the National Life and Casualty Building the company that started WSM. At this time the Opry was held in a small room in the same building with a stage at the front.

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Chuck Whiting is an award-winning publicist, educator, songwriter/composer and author. A former newspaper reporter, he founded Whiting Publicity & Promotions in 1993. His customers include visual artists, songwriters, musical performers, authors, art galleries, hotels, non-profit organizations, and businesses of all kinds.

Chuck also serves as editor of Music City Arts Update, a free, non-profit newsletter that provides much-needed exposure for emerging artists of all kinds. The newsletter is posted weekly at www.MusicCityArtsUpdate.com.

He has developed the "Publicizing Your Dream" seminar to show emerging artists, entrepreneurs and non-profits how to handle public relations, including the writing and distribution of press releases. The seminar has been held in Tennessee and Virginia and aired internationally on the Internet. Chuck also has spoken to groups such as SongU, Indie Connect, Nashville Songwriters Association International, the Songwriters Guild of America, and the Positive Music Association.

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Of the many reasons people love Middle Tennessee, one of the most important is its roots in country music with entertainers such as Johnny Cash, the Oak Ridge Boys and Conway Twitty calling Sumner County home over the years. While many of Tennessee's precious treasures often go unnamed, Ruth and Michael Tolbert of Hendersonville are making sure that one in particular is not forgotten. Meet Hendersonville's own Carl Knight.

Born in 1930 on a sharecropper's farm in Mississippi, Carl began selling papers and peanuts in Jackson, MS to help support his family.