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Nashville's Hit Songwriters

Rebecca Lynn Howard

2X Grammy Award winner Singer/Songwriter, Rebecca Lynn Howard is an American country music artist. She has charted seven singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and has released three studio albums. Her highest-charting single, "Forgive", peaked at No. 12 on the country music charts in 2002.

Written Songs For: MARTINA MCBRIDE, TRISHA YEARWOOD, 

RUNAWAY JUNE, POINT OF GRACE, CHARLES ESTEN

Toured With: STEVEN TYLER, KENNY ROGERS, ALAN JACKSON, 

BLAKE SHELTON, GRETCHEN WILSON, THE LOVING MARY BAND

$2000 for a showcase


Brice Long

Brice has enjoyed a successful 25+ year music career. As a songwriter he has had over 100 of his songs cut with artists such as Garth Brooks, George Strait, Chris Stapleton, Hank Williams Jr, Randy Houser, Josh Turner, Reba McEntire, Gary Allan, Cody Johnson, Chris Young,  Jon Pardi, The Grascals, Casey James, Darryl Worley, Randy Travis, Gretchen Wilson, John Michael Montgomery, Porter Wagoner and many more.  

Brice’s songwriting hits include the #1 singles “Heartache On The Dance Floor” by Jon Pardi and “Nothing On But The Radio” by Gary Allan.  Randy Houser’s “Like a Cowboy”,a song that also garnered Brice a CMA nomination for Song of the Year.  Other recent chart toppers are Randy Houser’s debut single, “Anything Goes”, “Today” from Gary Allan, Casey James’ “Let’s Don’t Call It A Night” and Jon Pardi’s, “What I Can’t Put Down”. Brice Long is signed to Sony Music Publishing.

$2000 for a showcase


Tim James

The prolific writer has since had cuts by Montgomery Gentry, Alabama, Chris Young, Buddy Jewell, Craig Morgan, Point Of Grace, and Lee Ann Womack to name a few. Some of James’ chart-topping singles include “He’s Mine” (Rodney Atkins), “Give It All We Got Tonight”, (George Strait’s 60th #1 song), and in 2015, James, Darius Rucker, and Rivers Rutherford wrote two songs, “So I Sang” and the title track “Southern Style” for Rucker’s #1 album Southern Style and Chris Stapleton’s “Either Way” from the Grammy-winning Album Of The Year, From A Room, Volume 1. James also received an ASCAP award for “It’s Good To Be Us” (Bucky Covington), a BMI award for “Holler Back” (The Lost Trailers), and was nominated for the ACM Song Of The Year with “Love Like Crazy” recorded by Lee Brice which still stands as the longest-running song in the history of the Billboard Charts. 

$2000 for a showcase


Dylan Altman

·    "Watch The Wind Blow By" - Tim McGraw

·    "Take A Little Ride" - Jason Aldean

·    "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" - Jake Owen

·    "Take It On Back" - Chase Bryant

·    "Baby I'm Home" - Trace Adkins

·    "Young As We Will Ever Be" - Will Hoge

·    "Baby Got Gone" - Kenny Wayne Shepherd

$1500 for a showcase

Jamie O'Neal

Jamie O’Neal is a Platinum-selling 4 x Grammy nominated country singer songwriter who became a household namein 2001 with her back-to-back # 1 singles, “There Is No Arizona” and “When I Think About Angels.” With multiple hits that followed, including “Shiver”, “Not Gonna Do Anything Without

You”, “Trying To Find Atlantis”, “Somebody’s Hero,” “I Love my Life” and more Jamie’s career caught fire. She earned numerous accolades including an ACM award, Billboard Award, CMA nominations and Grammy nominations. O’Neal has appeared on The Tonight Show, David Letterman, Emeril cooking show, Craig Kilborn, ET and more. Her voice can be heard internationally in major motion pictures including All by Myself for Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones’ Baby. She was also picked to perform with Carrie Underwood when she needed the perfect duet partner for CMT’s 100 greatest duets with ‘Does He Love You’. Jamie’s music has featured heavily on Spotify Playlists including New Boots, Women of Country, New Traditions Country Heroes and several top Apple Music playlists and has amassed over 70 million

streams. In 2022 O’Neal spread Spirit & Joy with the announcement of her debut Christmas album. As revealed by American Songwriter, Spirit & Joy is Jamie’s first ever 10-song collection of festive favorite Christmas songs and new material like “Christmas,” the album opener, written by Jeffrey Steele. O’Neal co-wrote three originals for Spirit & Joy, “Christmas You,” “Gulf of Mexico” and “You Were Christmas to Me.” Spotlighting O’Neal’s “jazz-infused country touch (Wide Open Country),” “Christmas You” was released last year along with “White Christmas,” which “turns the arrangement on its head (Taste of Country).” June 2nd 2023 a new duet “Straight into Love” with Kenny Rogers was released on his posthumous Album “Life is like a Song”. 

$3000 for a showcase


Dan Couch

Dan brings a unique songwriting career story that only he tell that involves tragedy turning into serendipity. 

"Something bout a truck"- Kip Moore

"Hole In the Bottle"- Cannan Smith

"Dirt Road"- Kip Moore

"Aint Nothing To It"- Cody Johnson"

"Road Less Traveled" - Lauren Alaina

$1500 for a showcase


Neil Medley

Hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, Neil Medley has carved out a distinguished career in the music industry as a Nashville-based singer/songwriter. Neil has made a significant impact with his songs recorded by a range of high-profile artists including Luke Bryan, Jake Owen, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Cody Johnson, Jon Pardi, Kid Rock, Josh Abbott Band, and Brent Cobb. Notably, Neil co-wrote the two-week #1 country radio single “Made For You” for Jake Owen. Currently, two of his songs, Luke Bryan’s “Country Song Came On” and Bryce Leatherwood’s “Hung Up On You,” are singles on country radio. In 2023, Neil released his debut album. South End Kid, earning acclaim from fellow artists, fans and critics alike.

$1500 for a showcase

Leslie Satcher

Songs written by Leslie Satcher include:

"Troubadour" - George Strait

"When God Fearin' Women Get The Blues" - Martina McBride

"Tough" - Kellie Pickler

"Politically Uncorrect" - Gretchen Wilson and Merle Haggard

"Prove You Wrong" - Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks & Maren Morris

"I Said A Prayer" - Pam Tillis

"You Still Shake Me" - Deana Carter

"For These Times" - Martina McBride

"100% Proof" - Kellie Pickler

"What Say" - George Strait

"A Man With 18 Wheels" - Lee Ann Womack

"Once You've Heard The Truth" - Randy Travis

"She Wasn't Good Enough For Him" - Reba McEntire

"Whats On My Mind" - Blake Shelton, Jim Lauderdale, and Gary Allan

"You Remain" - Willie Nelson and Andrea Zonn

"Ain't Nothin' To It" - Cody Johnson

$2000 for a showcase

Wynn Varbel

After many years of playing in honkytonks & bars, Wynn decided to make the move to Nashville. His first radio single was “Fit to Be Tied Down” by Sammy Kershaw. Since then, Wynn has had numerous hits including three number ones... all three were nominated for "Song of the Year" by the CMA and/or ACM. Wynn's three number one songs are: “Have You Forgotten” by Darryl Worley, “Waitin’ on A Woman” by Brad Paisley, and “I’m A Little More Country Than That” recorded by Easton Corbin. In addition to his number ones, Wynn's had songs recorded by artists such as Garth Brooks, Cody Johnson, Trace Adkins, Willie Nelson, Mark Chesnutt, Kellie Pickler, Lee Ann Womack, and many others. In 2009, Wynn received the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter of the Yer Award. He made his Grand Ole Opry debut in 2011.

$2000 for a showcase


2 for 1!!!

Dave Pahanish & Matt Warren

$2500 for a showcase. 

Two #1 Writers for the price of one! 


Dave Pahanish

Hits by Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Toby Keith and Jimmy Wayne

Matt Warren

Hites by Gary Allen & Darius Rucker

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