Nashville, Tennessee
Singer-Songwriter, Vocalist, Melodist

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""I think I lost it...let me know if you come across it.""

BIOGRAPHY

I moved to Nashville 5 years ago as a solo artist, put out a couple of records - 'Quite Often' on Sweet Tea Records 2005, and 'What's Golden Above Ground' on Ready Set Records 2006. Spent some time touring those records, then got a job in A&R;with EMI. I started writing songs with artists and evolved Ten Out Of Tenn. We made a compilation and toured and just released another round recently. I also released a record called "Decade Fades" last March. I signed a pub deal in Nashville with a company called Crossfire 3 and have been writing with artists from here to LA. Good things.
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LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Alternative Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Pop

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Crossfire3, major publishing company

Contact

Management: ellomedia@comcast.net
Publishing: none
Label: Ready, Set, Records!
Booking: kristendabbs@comcast.net
Administrative: Crossfire3

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / vocals

INFLUENCES

Bob Dylan,Lennon,Lucinda Willams, Neil Young, Ron Sexsmith,Ryan Adams,Paul Mccartney Beck, Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters

DAY JOB

songwriter/ artist

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG CUTS

Andy Davis - Believable Doubt, Humming bird, That's Where my head is Sam Ashworth - Alright, I was wrong Josh Wilson - Let Me Love You Mat Wertz - Keep Faith Audrey Spillman - Comfort You Mat Kearney- Lifeline, Never Be Ready Michelle Featherstone- 10 Stories Down Joy Williams- Charmed Life,Golden Thread,Turnaround Amy Stroup- Come on Back, Chin Up Matthew Perryman Jones - Rain or Shine

SONG PLACEMENTS

TV - The OC, The Mountain, The Hills, October Road, Grey's Anatomy,One Tree Hill, Army Wives promo Film- Nothing But the Truth

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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,