Luke Laird

32 Years Old

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LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Country, Urban/Hip-Hop/Rap

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Universal Music – Careers / High Powered Machine, major publishing company

Contact

Management: Oglesby Writer Management

P.R.O.

BMI

INFLUENCES

Prine, McDill, Petty, Dr. Dre

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

So Small -#1 Song for Carrie Underwood Last Name -#1 Song for Carrie Underwood

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

Songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood, Jedd Hughes, Emily West.

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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Spoon: The Power of Transference

In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over 15 years, the Austin, Texas band have survived lineup shuffles and early record label neglect, finding their signature style with 2001’s Girls Can Tell and quietly building one of the strongest rock catalogs of the decade.

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