Peermusic Nashville Signs David Lee Murphy
David Lee Murphy & Michael Knox. Photo: Michael Gomez
Peermusic Nashville has signed artist-songwriter David Lee Murphy to a multi-faceted, exclusive global publishing agreement.
Through this agreement, Peermusic will administer Murphy’s song catalog as well as co-publish future works. This marks Murphy’s first-ever exclusive co-publishing deal. Prior to this, he was self-published with his long-time personal manager, Doug Casmus.
The recent Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (NaSHOF) inductee is known for his hits “Dust on the Bottle” and “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” which earned him his first CMA Award for Musical Event of the Year, as well as “Party Crowd,” “Out with a Bang,” “Every Time I Get Around You,” “The Road You Leave Behind” and “Loco.”
Murphy has also earned over two dozen songwriting awards for cuts with Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Justin Moore, Walker Hayes, Eric Church, Florida Georgia Line, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley, Thomas Rhett, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash and more. His work includes Chesney’s “Living in Fast Forward,” Aldean’s “Big Green Tractor,” which was produced by Peermusic’s Michael Knox, and Thompson Square‘s Grammy-nominated “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not,” among others.
“David Lee Murphy is my favorite singer-songwriter in town,” says Knox, President, Peermusic Nashville. “For me, personally, this is a very exciting moment. ‘Dust On A Bottle’ creatively set the mark that I would chase for my entire career. As a producer that is the song that I tell everyone I am looking for. David Lee Murphy is the truest form of a singer-songwriter, and that’s why his first publishing deal needed to be with Peermusic, the company that brought you the ‘Father of Country Music’ (Jimmie Rodgers) and the ‘First Family of Country Music’ (The Carter Family). This is just a great combination…Peermusic and the ‘Coolest Guy in Country Music.'”
“I love Michael Knox,” says Murphy. “We’ve worked together on different things for many years. I’ve always appreciated his knack for songs and making music. Knowing the creative environment at Peermusic, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to join forces for us all going forward. Doug Casmus and I have managed to operate all these years having fun, just making music. We’re gonna keep doing that, we’re just gonna have a bigger team now and more people to have fun with.”
“David Lee and I have had such a profoundly, unique history together and I look forward to our new chapter with Peermusic,” adds Casmus.
