Reach Music Acquires Select Assets From Wyatt Durrette’s Catalog
Wyatt Durrette. Photo: Brooke Stevens
Reach Music Publishing Inc. has acquired select publishing assets and songwriter shares from the catalog of multi-Platinum songwriter Wyatt Durrette.
The deal includes interests in 29 of Durrette’s compositions, including his interest in songs he co-wrote with Zac Brown such as the nine-time Platinum hit “Chicken Fried” and the band’s “Toes” and “Whatever It Is,” as well as his share of Luke Combs‘ Diamond-certified “Beautiful Crazy.”
Reach Music also has global administration rights for its share of these acquired rights. The company will co-administer these rights with Durrette’s longtime publisher Richard Blackstone of Blackstone Entertainment.
“This is a thrilling moment to have concluded an acquisition agreement with Wyatt Durrette, an A-level award winning songwriter,” shares Michael Closter, President/Founder and Owner of Reach Music. “Reach Music has been the publishing administrator for Zac Brown for 12 years, and we’ve always been familiar with Wyatt Durrette and his incredible works with Zac Brown Band starting with ‘Chicken Fried’, as well as his more recent works with Luke Combs. This marks Reach’s largest acquisition in the country space, and we couldn’t be more excited than to have done this deal with Wyatt.”
Durrette was represented in the transaction by Adam Ritholz and John Brill of Ritholz Levy Fields LLP. Reach Music was represented in the transaction by Jeff Sacharow of The Sacharow Firm, P.C.
