Nashville, Tennessee
47 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"BRILLIANT SONG WRITING..WHAT A FIND...YOU'LL HANG ON EVERY WORD' -Robert K. Oermann, Music Row"

BIOGRAPHY

Here's the short and sweet of it. Moved to Nashville in 1984 and the first month in town I had songs recorded by both Jimmy Swaggart and Molly Hatchet. (No joke) I suppose I'm their love child.

Worked ten years as a road dog bass player for Terri Clark and have the tattoos to prove it. Don't ask me where.

Theses days I clock in over at Curb and write songs. Will some be hits? Magic 8-Ball says, "Outlook Good."

Released debut album in February 2009. AZALEA is the name. Southern acoustic songs with some slap.

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Alternative Country, Folk, Singer/Songwriter

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Curb Music Publishing, major publishing company

Contact

Publishing: Curb
Label: Deep Fried Discs
Music Supervisor: www.myspace.com/jeffrossmusic

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

bass / bongos / dobro / guijo / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / guitsteel / harmonica / mandolin / pedalsteel / percussion / recorder / steel guitar / tambourine / ukulele / upright bass / vocals / xylophone

INFLUENCES

Vinyl records, 8-track tapes and soul grub cooked in a cast iron skillet.

DAY JOB

Songwriter

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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SONG CUTS

Bryan White, Lisa Brokop, Bomshel, Ulrika Olund, Molly Hatchet, lots of gospel acts and myself. Two holds for George Strait this week. (Fingers crossed please!) My own record, AZALEA, will be in stores in February.

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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: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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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,