eNEWSLETTER • Vol. I Issue 6 • December 2006

Watch Country Music Across America on GAC TV!

It All Begins With A Song... A Songwriting Primer on This Week's Episode
Wordsmiths, poets, tunesmiths, crazy, creative types... whatever you call them, Nashville's songwriters posses the ability to transform everyday life experiences into chart-topping anthems. On the current episode of "Country Music Across America," on GAC, explores the world of songwriting through the eyes of this industry's top writers and song decision makers. Storme traveled to songwriting retreats in Key West, Colorado and Anguilla to observe songwriters at work and at play. He reports on where songwriters go to get creative, how each one of us can become more creative and just what exactly inspires some of country music's top writers.
 

Wendall Mobley
Talks Songwriting

Songwriter Wendell Mobley (left) shares the inspiration behind Kenny Chesney's " There Goes My Life" and Faith Hill's "Paris" (from her Fireflies LP) while Jeffrey Steele, Craig Wiseman, Bob DiPiero, Rivers Rutherford, Brett James, Chuck Cannon and Lari White talk about their very unique occupations.
 

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Take A Sneak Peak with Tracy Gershon






 

Everything from pitching songs to downloading music is talked about by experts including label chiefs Joe Galante (SonyBMG) and Luke Lewis (UMG), A & R exec Tracy Gershon (above) (Warner Bros.) and the Nashville Songwriters Association's Exec Director Bart Herbison.