Snapshots (8/2/12)

SESAC-affiliated songwriter Brian White took to the streets recently to announce his new publishing agreement with SB21 Music. White, who has penned several No. 1 hits in both the Country and Christian Music genres, and executives from SESAC and SB21 Music stopped traffic on the busy streets of Music Row to celebrate the new partnership.

(L-R) (standing): SESAC’s John Mullins & Tim Fink and SB21’s Shane Barrett & Steve Pasch (seated): White. Photo: Peyton Hoge

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ASCAP’s Mike Sistad caught up with Gloriana at the Pepsi Billboard Summer Beats Concert Series in Nashville on the night before the release of the group’s new record, A Thousand Miles Left Behind.

(L-R): Emblem Music Group's Dean Serletic, ASCAP's Mike Sistad, Gloriana's Tom Gossin and Mike Gossin, Emblem Music Group's Matt Serletic

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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum recently (7/28) honored Kye Fleming in its quarterly series Poets and Prophets: Legendary Country Songwriters. Fleming’s songwriting career includes Michael Johnson’s “Give Me Wings;” Barbara Mandrell’s  “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed” and “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool;” Ronnie Milsap’s “Smoky Mountain Rain” and “I Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World;” and Sylvia’s “Nobody.”

(L-R): Museum Editor Michael Gray, Kye Fleming, Sylvia Hutton, Allen Reynolds. Photo: Donn Jones