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		<title>Nashville Songwriters Foundation &#8211; Paul McCartney Honorary Inductee to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Paul McCartney was presented an Honorary Induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame just minutes prior to his acclaimed performance at Nashville&#8217;s the Bridgestone Arena on July 26, it was announced today by Roger Murrah, board chairman of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation.
more via Nashville Songwriters Foundation &#8211; Paul McCartney Honorary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worship Artist And Songwriter Don Poythress Receives CMA Nomination</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nashville Songwriter Don Poythress is a good example of the patience it takes for songs to work out. He&#8217;s nominated for Song of the Year in the upcoming CMA Awards.
Poythress actually wrote &#8220;A Little More Country Than That&#8221; more than five years ago.  He and one of his &#8220;A Little More Country Than That&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CMA Announces Songwriter of the Year Nominations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technically the nominations are for Song of the Year, but we prefer Songwriters of the Year because it&#8217;s the writers who make the songs possible. The nominations are:
“A Little More Country Than That” — Writers: Rory Lee Feek, Don Poythress, Wynn Varble
“Need You Now” — Writers: Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott, Josh Kear
“The House That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kristofferson, Nelson and Foster honored at gala</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dale Franklin Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolly Parton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and visionary record mogul Fred Foster were honored with the Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award Sunday night at a gala awards dinner heavily attended by Music Row players.
Foster was the first to sign artists, including Dolly Parton and Kristofferson, and his label, Monument Records, was home to other music greats, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Band Perry, David Lee Murphy Join Songwriter Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular CMA Songwriters Series will return to Chicago on October 8 and 9. The shows put a spotlight on the writers behind some of country music&#8217;s biggest hits, as well as featuring artists known as much for their songwriting as they are for performing. This year&#8217;s talent line-up includes The Band Perry, Kix Brooks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singer-songwriter Keith Anderson on the road</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes an artist interview by a writer for a newspaper in a smaller area can be more revealing than one in a maj0r metro area. Like this one from Appleton Wisconsin.
Leaving a top construction engineering firm in Dallas to wait tables in Nashville seemed like a risky decision for (Keith) Anderson in 1998, but in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Jackson earns ASCAP&#8217;s Founders Award</title>
		<link>http://blog.paramountsong.com/alan-jackson-earns-ascaps-founders-award-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Billy Joel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emmylou Harris]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Taylor Jackson Browne]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASCAP will honor country star Alan Jackson with its Founders Award at the 48th annual ASCAP Country Music Awards on September 14.
A statement from the performing rights organization described the award as “among the most important honors that ASCAP gives to songwriters and composers who have made pioneering contributions to music by inspiring and influencing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugarland enjoys success of new single Stuck Like Glue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nettles and Bush maintained their songwriting even after signing their Nashville recording contract.“They have a wonderful songwriting system in Nashville, but our roots are in the Atlanta singer-songwriter scene,” Nettles said. “We came into the Nashville scene doing our own thing. I think that’s been something refreshing for them.
”Despite the many great tunesmiths in Music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rascal Flatts to Join Big Machine : MusicRow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Machine President/CEO Scott Borchetta announced today 7/29 that Rascal Flatts would be the latest addition to the Big Machine family. A new album called Nothing Like This, produced by Dann Huff, is due out November 16. The first single “Why Wait,” written by Neil Thrasher, Tom Shapiro and Jimmy Yeary, is being released to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feud over songwriter’s estate ends in Ohio court</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>normdan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long-running legal battle between the four children of a late country music songwriter and their evangelist aunt ended Monday when a judge approved placing the family’s share of his catalog into a trust fund for them.
The closing of the estate by a probate judge in Hamilton, north of Cincinnati, ended five years of wrangling [...]]]></description>
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