Grammy Preview: Lady A Leads Heading Into Awards : MusicRow
February 11th, 2011
Lady Antebellum is the most-nominated country group heading into Sunday night’s (2/13) Grammy Awards. Zac Brown Band follows closely with four nods.
Lady A will compete in the all-genre categories for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, all for smash single and album “Need You Now.”
Also in the running for the all-genre Song honor are Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin, writers of Miranda Lambert’s hit “The House That Built Me.”
via Grammy Preview: Lady A Leads Heading Into Awards : MusicRow.
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame honors new inductees at tennessean.com | Tune In Music City
October 18th, 2010
During an evening that celebrated songs spanning genres, styles and centuries, Pat Alger, Steve Cropper, Paul Davis and Stephen Foster became the latest inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
“If there was a way to calculate the emotional effect their songs have had on our lives, it would blow our minds,” said Roger Murrah, the chairman of the Songwriters Hall.
Murrah presided over Sunday’s 40th annual Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction Ceremony, which brought a room full of music dignitaries including Cropper, Alger, Garth Brooks, Country Music Hall of Famer Bill Anderson and Taylor Swift to the Renaissance Nashville Hotel to honor and be honored.
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They Write for Beyoncé, the National, Miranda Lambert: The Secrets of Songwriters – WSJ.com
August 13th, 2010
At the Sony/ATV writers’ quarters, near portraits of writers such as Red Lane and Rodney Crowell, the sound of music leaks out of rooms that writers have booked to work in teams. One of the most recent releases with Mr. (Tom) Douglas’s name on it, “The House That Built Me,” gestated for six years, starting when co-writer Allen Shamblin mentioned a line he’d read somewhere: “We don’t build houses, they build us.” The writers sketched out a song about someone visiting their childhood home, looking for direction in life. But it felt unfocused and the writers put it aside for four years until 2008, when the song gelled around a new refrain: “If I could just come in, I swear I’ll leave, won’t take nothing but a memory, from the house that built me.”
The response from Sony/ATV’s song pluggers, who play matchmaker between writers and recording artists, was immediate. “It was one of the five days a year where the flares go up and the beacons sound,” Mr. Douglas says. The song went to country star Miranda Lambert. It was pushed as a single and spent four weeks at No. 1 on country radio.
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