Nashville, Tennessee
27 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Composer

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"he not busy being born is busy dying"

BIOGRAPHY

I was born in the evergreens of the pacific northwest. I was raised in the cornfields of small-town iowa. I live in the home of country music, nashville, tn. I write my songs on the upright piano in my house under the windows where the sun shines in. I've spent the last few years traveling the states on my own in my VW. When its right, I take my band...cause that's how I hear it in my head. I've released some records over the years that most people have nice things to say about.

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Soul, Indie Rock, Pop

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Son of Geert Music, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: Nettwerk Management - mikec@nettwerk.com
Publishing: Son of Geert Music - publishing@tylerjames.com
Label: Nettwerk
Booking: Progressive Global Agency - hunter@pgamusic.om

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

piano, guitar, trumpet, drums, bass

INFLUENCES

Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Band, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, David Bowie, Randy Newman, Rainer Marie Rilke, Neil Young, Shuggie Otis, Billy Preston, Al Green, Woody Allen, Jack Kerouac

DAY JOB

recording artist

I AM INTERESTED IN

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
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG PLACEMENTS

Television: ABC's "Brothers and Sisters" MTV's "The Hills" Film: Disney's "Bridge to Terabithia"

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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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Q&A With Squeeze's Chris Defford

After practically defining the New Wave genre in the '80s and, with partner Glenn Tilbrook, writing some of the classic pop songs of the late 20th century, Squeeze's venerable co-writer Chris Defford went the solo route, with detours into film scoring and the occasional Squeeze reunion.

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Q&A With Joe Pernice

Already considered a songwriter's songwriter for his high-lonesome tunesmithery with the Scud Mountain Boys and shimmering power-pop with the Pernice Brothers, Joe Pernice has launched a fiction writing career that promises as much critical acclaim and cultural valence as his music.