ASCAP
PRO Representative
Nashville, Tennessee

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"Hello....."

COMPANY DETAILS

ASCAP is a performing rights organization that collects performance royalties and distributes them to our writer/publisher members. Performance royalties include radio, tv & film, live venues, foreign, internet radio, basically whenever you hear music being used in public.

WEBSITE

www.ascap.com

EXPERIENCE/CREDITS

Television: Intern w/ Vector Management Summer 2004 Intern w/ Combustion Music Fall 2004 Intern w/ Warner Chappell Spring 2005

ARTISTS/WRITERS I REPRESENT

Rodney Crowell, Jonathan Singleton, Bonnie Baker, Sarah Lenore, Jaren Johnston, Jeremy Lister, Andy Davis, Perrin Lamb, Josh Ryan, How I Became The Bomb, Paper Route, Safety Suit, Ricky Young, Aaron Winters, The Champion and His Burning Flame, Brandon Young, KS Rhoads, Roman Candle, The Turf, Neva Geoffrey, The Lonely Hearts, David Condos, Courtney Tidwell, De Novo Dahl, Paper Rival, Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights, Mike Willis, Harrison Hudson, Brett McLaughlin, Natalie Warner, etc......

GENRES I NEED OR REPRESENT

All Genres

INFLUENCES

The 1st record I was ever given was "Dark Side of The Moon" and my 1st concert was New Kids on The Block, go figure, so my taste is kind of all over the place. I love late 60s/70s rock, a big fan of Southern Rap (Outkast, Goodie Mob, Three 6 Mafia, etc) and more jazz inspired hip hop (Tribe Called Quest, Gangstar, Digable Planets, etc.) Indie Rock, Local Music, Brit Pop, I'm kind of all over the place, whatever I listen to depends on my mood...

GROUPS & ASSOCIATION INVOLVEMENT

CMA, ACM, Americana Music Association, SOLID

I AM INTERESTED IN

in finding new contacts
in career opportunities
in new ventures businesses
in job inquires

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DREAM JOB/POSITION

WHEN I'M NOT WORKING

I play a lot of golf....and frequent Rumour's East way too much...

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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,