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Florida Georgia Line
COUNTRY’S HOTTEST DUO ON THEIR METEORIC RISE
INTERVIEW WITH BMI ICON
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BMI NASHVILLE | FALL/WINTER 2013
04 COUNTRY’S HOTTEST DUO
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
08 INTERVIEW WITH BMI ICON
DEAN DILLON
14 BMI EVENTS
08 JAKE OWEN BLOCK PARY
09 AWARDS
12 #1 PARTIES
16 BMI ON SOCIAL MEDIA
18 2013 BMI COUNTRY AWARDS WINNERS
JULIET SIMONNINA PACENT
ANGIE ROMERO
AELIN HU
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
MANAGING EDITOR
MANAGING EDITOR
DESIGN DIRECTOR
4 | BMI NASHVILLE FALL/WINTER 2013
When a career explodes the way it has this year for BMI’s Tyler
Hubbard and Brian Kelley, better known as the chart-topping
Florida Georgia Line, chances are it’s the result of a fuse that was lit
years ago.
For Hubbard and Kelley, that fuse was first sparked in the early 2000s,
when the two were teenagers and Kelley was hooked on Garth Brooks
and Hubbard was listening to Christian artists like Shane & Shane and
Chris Tomlin. Although they grew up more than 400 miles apart —
Hubbard in Monroe, Georgia, and Kelley in Ormond Beach, Florida
— they followed similar paths. Both picked up the guitar and joined
church bands, where they got an early education in singing harmony, a
fervor for melodies and a rhythmic drive that are core elements of both
gospel and country music. They both migrated to Nashville’s Belmont
University, a hotbed of musical higher education in country’s capital city
where Kelley majored in music industry studies and Hubbard pursued
a music business degree. After being introduced by a mutual friend, the
two started co-writing and that fuse began to burn bright.
“From the very first song we co-wrote, we knew there was something
special,” says Kelley. “We felt we were better writers doing it together.”
Hubbard adds, “We also loved singing together, and we became best
friends. It started then, and to this day we are still absolutely having the
time of our lives.”
PHOTO BY JUSTIN MRUSEK
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BY TED DROZDOWSKI
COUNTRY’S HOTTEST DUOON THEIR METEORIC RISE
Florida Georgia
Line
But the astonishing success of Florida Georgia Line is more than a matter
of chemistry. Hard work, mentoring, perseverance and vision have all been
part of the equation that’s propelled the duo into the stratosphere. Their
first three singles — “Cruise,” “Get Your Shine On” and “Round Here” —
from their full-length debut album, Here’s to the Good Times, all reached
number one on the country charts and remained there for multiple weeks,
a feat not accomplished by a debut album since Brooks & Dunn’s Brand
New Man in 1991.
Riding this wave of success, Florida Georgia Line won the 2013 Academy
of Country Music’s New Artist of the Year and New Vocal Duo or Group
of the Year awards, and the 2013 CMT Music Award’s Duo Video of the
Year and Breakthrough Video of the Year trophies. Most recently, the
two were nominated for an impressive four CMA Awards including Vocal
Duo of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Single of the Year for “Cruise”
and Musical Event of the Year for their remix of “Cruise,” featuring hip
hop superstar Nelly. In addition to these accolades, in 2013 Hubbard and
Kelley won the praises of superstars Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Ed
Sheeran and joined Swift’s record-breaking Red tour as openers.
“This time last year we were touring in a van,” Hubbard explained when
BMI connected by phone with Florida Georgia Line during a stop in
Brookings, South Dakota — part of their own sold-out string of fall
headlining dates. “Now we’ve got three tour buses and three trailers,
BMI, FOR COUNTRY SONGWRITERS AND ARTISTS, IS THE BEST FIT IN NASHVILLE. THEY KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON IN NASHVILLE AND ON
THE ROAD. THEY GAVE US TOOLS TO GET BETTER… GETTING US INTO
WRITERS’ ROOMS, NETWORKING… THEY GAVE US THE ENCOURAGEMENT
AND CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM THAT WE NEEDED.
and believe me, it’s easier to get some rest and
write songs on a tour bus than it is in a van …
or in the Chevy Tahoe with a trailer we toured
in before that.”
Every one of the hundreds of thousands of miles
Hubbard and Kelley spent taking turns at the
wheel before they signed their first publishing
deal attests to the hard-working, self-reliant
nature that’s at the core of their success. Even
when they were still students, they crammed
writing time in-between classes and played tip-
jar gigs in songwriters’ bars after school. Upon
graduation, they hit the road, putting together
a band and booking themselves into roadhouses
wherever southern accents, twangy guitars and
close harmonies were welcome.
BMI became part of Florida Georgia Line’s
story early on and would play a pivotal role in
their graduation to the hot arena lights.
“We joined BMI before we were signed to
management,” Kelley relates. “We both felt
BMI, for country songwriters and artists, is the
best fit in Nashville. They know what’s going on
in Nashville and on the road. They gave us tools
to get better… getting us into writers’ rooms,
networking… They gave us the encouragement
and constructive criticism that we needed.”
Hubbard and Kelley cite BMI Nashville’s
Writer/Publisher Relations team including
Clay Bradley, Mark Mason, David Preston and
Leslie Roberts as early mentors and champions.
In 2012, BMI gave Florida Georgia Line a
crucial opportunity: a slot on the BMI stage at
the CMA Music Festival. Florida Georgia line
drew the largest crowd of the entire weekend,
with well over 1,000 fans in attendance for
their set at the inaugural stage.
Music industry executives in the VIP section
were shocked to see many of those fans singing
the words to the songs on Florida Georgia
Line’s first two ground-laying EPs, the high-
spirited Anything Like Me and It’z Just What
We Do. The first was made by the duo with the
help of friends and was released independently
in 2010, providing a springboard for their
initial touring and airplay. The second was
issued a month before the Festival, after they
began working with manager Seth England
and signed a publishing deal with GRAMMY
winning-songwriter Craig Wiseman’s Big
Loud Shirt Industries. England, Wiseman, Big
Loud Shirt writer/producer Joey Moi and artist
manager Kevin “Chief” Zaruk put together
a label, Big Loud Mountain, specifically to
release It’z Just What We Do, produced by
Moi, who would repeat that role for the smash
Here’s to the Good Times.
With a team in place, two successful EP’s
and a grassroots fan base aided by Buddy Lee
Attractions’ Kevin Neal, everything was lining
up by the time Florida Georgia Line hit the first
note outside LP Field.
“We took a chance putting them on the bill,
but we looked like we were brilliant,” BMI
Assistant Vice President, Writer/Publisher
Relations Clay Bradley recalls. “But that’s what
we want. We want to have a stage where we can
risk something and see if it pays off.”
“That event put us in front of a lot of people,”
says Kelley, “and a lot of record labels came to
see us. The fans were going crazy. And that’s
where Scott Borchetta saw us for the first time.
When I think that was just 18 months ago, I’m
blown away.”
Capturing the attention of Borchetta, the
Big Machine Records founder known for
discovering Taylor Swift, added rocket fuel to
their trajectory. He signed the band and they
began recording Here’s to the Good Times
PHOTO BY MICHAEL MONACO
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Be you, try to find your own sound — and if you’re trying to write what’s on the radio, you’re already two steps behind.
with Moi in the studio on the bottom floor of
Big Loud Shirt on Music Row.
Teamwork and collaboration has played a
major role in Florida Georgia Line’s success,
both on and off the road. The two have had
the same road band since day one, so when
making their album, they adopted this same
model for success. Hubbard and Kelley relied
on fellow Big Loud Shirt songwriters Wiseman,
Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins and Moi
for help in penning the tracks “Get Your Shine
On” and “Cruise,” and Clawson, Tompkins
and singer-songwriter Thomas Rhett penned
“Round Here.” For Florida Georgia Line’s
just-released fourth single, “Stay,” Moi added
some lyrics and changed the arrangement of
the song originally recorded and written by the
Kentucky band Black Stone Cherry.
“From day one when we started FGL, we
said that if there’s some outside songs and we
feel like we could have been in the room the
day they were written, we’re gonna cut ’em,”
Hubbard relates. “We won’t record a song that
we’ve written that doesn’t measure up if we’ve
got a song by another writer that beats it. Our
fans don’t deserve that. And these guys are
among the best out there. We consider them
among our biggest influences. They’re huge
songwriters and they’ve become our buddies
and we’ve learned a lot from them.”
Kelley and Hubbard credit Moi with schooling
them in studio craft. “Recording new music
is so much easier for us now because we’ve
learned and developed so much, and Joey’s
been a big part of that,” Kelley says. “He has
all kinds of insights on how to tighten up songs
and what makes choruses and hooks work.”
He also coached the group on improving their
already exceptional vocal prowess. “Early in
the sessions, when I was having trouble singing
a line or hitting a note, he would tell me to
smile when I was singing, and it would just
come out,” Hubbard adds. “He’s also real big
on laying back on the beat and placing the
emphasis on words where it needs to be. If
there are two lines that go, “I feel you in my
heart/And I felt that from the start” — then
“heart” and “start” have to be sung the exact
same way. It’s all about symmetry. You don’t
think about things like that until someone like
Joey enlightens you.”
Now, with Florida Georgia Line riding high on
the charts and selling out amphitheaters on their
own star power, Hubbard and Kelley are in turn
becoming gurus to a new generation of budding
songwriters and performers. Their advice:
“Be you, try to find your own sound — and if
you’re trying to write what’s on the radio, you’re
already two steps behind,” Hubbard suggests.
Kelley adds, “Really challenge yourself to find
your own sound. And if you’re trying to write
better than Craig Wiseman, you’re going to
lose every time because he’s Craig Wiseman.
We just try to write like Florida Georgia Line
and it’s working for us. So be unique, chase
your dream, play big and play loud.”
PHOTO BY KRISTIN BARLOWE
8 | BMI NASHVILLE FALL/WINTER 2013
SUMMER BLOCK PARTYJAKE OWEN
Broadcast Music, Inc. hosted its biggest #1 party ever
August 19, 2013, celebrating country star Jake Owen’s
hit “Anywhere With You,” written by BMI songwriter Jimmy
Yeary along with Ben Hayslip and David Lee Murphy. The
free Summer Block Party was held in BMI Nashville’s back
lot, with a gathering of more than 20,000 fans who traveled
from all over the country and began lining up around the
perimeter of the BMI building hours before the gates opened
at 6:30 p.m. Kicking off the event was Big Machine Label
Group's new trio the Cadillac Three. Owen, who started
his set with the #1 song, was joined onstage later by some
of country’s finest, including Florida Georgia Line, Dierks
Bentley, Thomas Rhett and Dee Jay Silver, and proceeded to
push the envelope on Nashville’s 11 p.m. sound curfew for
public events. Rock on, Jake.
JAKE OWEN ROCKS THE CROWD AT THE JAKE OWEN SUMMER BLOCK PARTY AT BMI.
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINETHOMAS RHETT
JAKE OWEN AND DIERKS BENTLEY
ALL PHOTOS BY RICK DIAMOND
BMI NASHVILLE | 9BMI.COM
AWARDS & SIGNINGS
THE DUCK DYNASTY ROBERTSON FAMILY SIGNS WITH BMI
The Robertsons of A&E’s Duck Dynasty and the Duck Commander Sporting Empire
recently signed with BMI in Nashville during the CMA Music Festival. Later this
year, Universal Records will release Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas.
Pictured are (back row, l-r): BMI’s Clay Bradley, John Luke Robertson, Sadie Robertson,
Si Robertson, Kay Robertson, Missy Robertson, Jep Robertson and BMI’s Jody Williams;
(front row, l-r): attorney Jess Rosen of Greenberg Traurig, Missy Robertson, Willie
Robertson, Jase Robertson and Jessica Robertson. RAY BENSON AND BMI’S MARK MASON AT THE AUSTIN-BERGSTROM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD WITH BMI’S ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF WRITER/PUBLISHER RELATIONS LESLIE ROBERTS.
Broadcast Music, Inc. recently honored country
superstar Carrie Underwood with multiple BMI
"Million-Air" Awards at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
BMI’s Associate Director of Writer/Publisher Relations
Leslie Roberts joined Underwood onstage to present the
certificates, honoring the prolific performances of songs
"Mama's Song" and "Good Girl," with one million
performances each, and "All-American Girl," with two
million to date. Underwood’s catalog now boasts more
than 13 million performances.
PHOTO BY CHRIS HOLLO
PHOTO BY ERIKA GOLDRING
PHOTO BY SANDY L. STEVENS, COURTESY OF CITY OF AUSTIN AVIATION
BMI NASHVILLE | 11BMI.COM
Dean Dillon lives like a country song
sounds. He always has. Have a talk
with the legendary songwriter, and you’ll
understand just how this came to be his
line of work. He talks slow, low and easy --
keeping the pace measured and deliberate,
never breaking into so much as a canter. Of
course, that’s not the case at his ranch in
Gunnison, Colorado, where Dillon, 58, rides
horses all summer and writes songs furiously
all winter. His life’s work — which includes
crafting hit song after hit song for George
Strait, in addition to “everybody else and his
brother” (for example, George Jones, Kenny
Chesney, Lee Ann Womack and Toby Keith)
— is being honored at the 61st annual BMI
Country Awards, where Dillon will receive the
designation of BMI Icon.
Dillon got news of the award from BMI
President Del Bryant -- a friend and supporter
of Dillon’s for close to 40 years. Says Dillon,
“Del called me from New York and told me
about it. ’Course I started crying, ’cause you’ve
got to understand: songwriting has been my
life. It embodies who I am and what I am …
My relationship with BMI has been, for lack of
a better word, amazing. The way that BMI has
taken care of us — the songwriters’ community
— they help us out in good times, and they help
us out in bad times... They’re in your corner. If
you’re a songwriter, you’ve got a friend.”
Dillon’s life has been the stuff of country songs —
hard living, hard-earned, bootstrapping, boot-
wearing. He grew up poor in East Tennessee,
and just out of high school, hitchhiked to
Nashville in 1973. “I weighed 135 lbs. soaking
wet; I was 18 years old, but I knew Nashville
was where it was at, and I wanted to be a part
of it,” says Dillon.
Dillon wanted to be a part of it, sure, but he
also stood apart. “Back in those days, if you
had a great song, you really wouldn’t pitch it to
an unknown,” explains Dillon. “You wanted a
Haggard, or a Jones or a Cash or somebody …
I was just always a rebel, and I didn’t pay much
attention to that. I just wanted to find someone
who I would enjoy listening to sing my songs.”
That someone turned out to be Strait, who
was first presented to Dillon in 1979 as an
unknown, a “young gunslinger from Texas.”
SONGWRITING HAS BEEN MY
LIFE. IT EMBODIES WHO I AM AND WHAT I AM…
MY RELATIONSHIP WITH BMI HAS
BEEN, FOR LACK OF A BETTER
WORD, AMAZING. THE WAY THAT
BMI HAS TAKEN CARE OF US –
THE SONGWRITERS’ COMMUNITY – THEY HELP US OUT IN GOOD
TIMES, AND THEY HELP US OUT IN BAD TIMES…
THEY’RE IN YOUR CORNER. IF YOU’RE
A SONGWRITER, YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND.
In the end, his debut, Strait Country, included
six of Dillon’s songs.
“After that, every time Strait went to the studio
he never failed to call me,” says Dillon. “He
never forgot me. He never forgot that I went out
on a limb and pitched my stuff to him.”
When asked if he cares to name a song or two
that he’s most proud of, Dillon doesn’t hesitate
long. “The Chair,” a song he co-wrote with
Hank Cochran, tops his list, and for good
reason. It’s a swaggering, slow-moving, sweet
song that turned out to be an instant classic for
Strait in 1985. Another of his favorites is “A
Lot of Things Different,” co-written with Bill
Anderson and recorded by Kenny Chesney in
2002, after Dillon got sober.
That was also a time during which Dillon had
to learn, over a period of several years, how to
write songs without alcohol as a collaborator.
“It wasn’t an easy process,” he says, “You
know, like the song says: I would have done a
lot of things different, but it is what it is, and it
happened the way it happened. You know, it’s
part of my legacy. It’s just part of who I am.”
Other collaborators of Dillon’s included
legendary late songwriters Frank Dycus and
Hank Cochran, who he paired with time and
again during the ’70s and ’80s and who he
credits with helping take his songwriting to a
“whole other level.”
As for the next crop of aspiring country
writers: “The best advice I can give is to find
someone who’s been in this business awhile, a
songwriter that’s been around the block,” says
Dillon. “Hook up and learn. I always found
myself paired up with people older than me —
Frank Dycus, Hank Cochran. Both of those
guys taught me so much about songwriting...
The young songwriters today write in such
a box. That’s all well and good, because you
write what you know, but at some point you’re
gonna have to write what you don’t know.
Everybody knows about trucks, and everybody
knows about beer, and everybody knows about
dating, but you’ve gotta open your mind. That’s
gonna separate the men from the boys -- when
you write what you don’t know, and you write
something great.”
BY ELLEN MALLERNEE BARNES
12 | BMI NASHVILLE FALL/WINTER 2013
BIG MACHINE LABEL GROUP’S SCOTT BORCHETTA, CO-WRITERS BRETT AND BRAD WARREN, TIM MCGRAW, SONY ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING’S TROY TOMLINSON, KEITH URBAN, BMI’S JODY WILLIAMS, CO-WRITER MARK IRWIN AND PRODUCER BYRON GALLIMORE ONSTAGE AT THE CELEBRATION FOR “HIGHWAY DON’T CARE.”
BMI’S JODY WILLIAMS, CO-WRITER DAVID HODGES, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, CO-WRITER HILLARY LINDSEY AND EMI’S JOSH VAN VALKENBURG ONSTAGE AT THE CELEBRATION FOR “SEE YOU AGAIN.”
BMI CELEBRATES THE NO. 1 SONG “WAGON WHEEL.” OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW POSES WITH WSM MICROPHONES ON THE HISTORIC RYMAN STAGE ON THE EVE OF THEIR GRAND OLE OPRY INDUCTION.
TROY VERGES, HUNTER HAYES AND LORI MCKENNA PERFORM AT THE “I WANT CRAZY” NO. 1 PARTY.
PICTURED AT THE “TORNADO” NO. 1 PARTY ON MONDAY, MAY 6, ARE BACK ROW: LITTLE BIG TOWN AND FRONT ROW: CO-WRITERS DELTA MAID AND NATALIE HEMBY.
BRETT WARREN TAKES HIS TURN SINGING A VERSE OF “LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING” ALONGSIDE HIS CO-WRITERS AND THE SONG’S PRODUCER, WITH THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE AS A SCENIC BACKDROP.
MIRANDA LAMBERT GRACIOUSLY THANKS WRITERS KACEY MUSGRAVES, SHANE MCANALLY AND BRANDY CLARK FOR LETTING HER RECORD “MAMA’S BROKEN HEART.”
ALL PHOTOS BY RICK DIAMOND
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NASHVILLE DANCE ROCK STAPLES WILD CUB CELEBRATE A RECORD DEAL WITH AN ENERGETIC PERFORMANCE ON THE BMI LOUFEST STAGE.
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AL ANDERSON
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GREG BATES JIM BEAVERS
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JOHNNY BULFORD
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JOSH LEO
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VICKY MCGEHEE
LEE THOMAS MILLER
NEIL PERRY, KIMBERLY PERRY & REID PERRY
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