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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Legends: Bobby Braddock

In Nashville, most successful songwriters have a fairly short run. On hit, one year, two years, five years. Occasionally, we get one whose career approaches the length of a real career or, more often, one who has a few years success, then slips into oblivion, only to emerge again for another brief era of hit-making.

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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.