Industry Ink: Broken Bow Records, BMI, NEEDTOBREATHE, Country Music Cruise, More

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Broken Bow Records Celebrates 50th No. 1

Pictured (L-R): Peter Strickland, Layna Bunt, JoJamie Hahr, Lee Adams & Jon Loba.

On Jan. 16, BMG Americas’ President, Frontline Recordings Jon Loba, BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville’s EVP, Recorded Music JoJamie Hahr and BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville’s General Manager Peter Strickland surprised Broken Bow Records’ VP, Promotion Lee Adams and Broken Bow Records’ Director, Promotion West Coast Layna Bunt with a plaque celebrating their 50th number one for Broken Bow Records.

 

BMI Hosts ‘How I Wrote That Song’ Series

Pictured (L-R): BMI’s Mike O’Neill, Edgar Barrera, JID, Laura Veltz, Rogét Chahayed, INK, BMI’s Mike Steinberg and Catherine Brewton. Photo: Louis Lee for BMI.

BMI hosted a Grammy edition of its How I Wrote That Song series at The London West Hollywood on Jan. 30.

The panel featured 2026 GRAMMY-nominated songwriters and producers Rogét Chahayed, INK, Edgar Barrera and Laura Veltz. BMI’s VP, Creative, Catherine Brewton led the discussion.

Over the two-hour panel, DJ Faucet played a couple of hit songs from each panelist, and the audience got an insider’s look into how each hit was created.

 

NEEDTOBREATHE Unveils ‘The Season of The Long Surrender’ Documentary

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NEEDTOBREATHE has unveiled its The Season of The Long Surrender documentary.

Directed by Babysweet, The Season of The Long Surrender chronicles the making of the band’s 10th studio album, The Long Surrender. The documentary follows NEEDTOBREATHE in the studio, on stage, and on the road, with interspersed interviews with the band’s four members about what making the album has meant to each of them.

The Long Surrender will be released via MCA on March 27

 

Country Music Cruise Raises $57,900 Benefitting CMHOFM

Pictured (L-R): Ryan Hallquist, the Museum’s Manager of Advancement, Major Gifts; Mike Jason, StarVista LIVE President/Country Music Cruise Executive Producer; winning bidders Jeff King and Eric Blankenship; and Mike Robertson, Country Music Cruise Executive Producer. Photo: Sam Kerrigan/StarVista LIVE

Last week, the Country Music Cruise raised $57,900 benefitting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s nonprofit mission of preserving the history of country music and making it broadly accessible to a global audience.

The money was raised through auctioning two acoustic autographed guitars prior to Josh Turner’s two headline performances. Both guitars were signed by Country Music Hall of Fame members Randy Owen of Alabama, Jimmy Fortune of The Statler Brothers, and Patty Loveless, as well as Turner, T. Graham Brown, Linda Davis, David Frizzell, Wade Hays, The Malpass Brothers, Neal McCoy, Chuck Mead, Shenandoah, and others.

 

John Carter Cash To Unveil First Visual Art Exhibition

John Carter Cash will unveil his first visual art exhibition, “Dark Hallways,” on Feb. 13 at Southern Underground Gallery in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee.

“My art is not about the spaces we go through physically, but about those we move through internally,” he shares.

Cash will host an opening reception benefitting SOS Children’s Villages International.

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