Elizabeth Brahan has been hired as Director of Publishing for Sprockets Music Publishing, which is a sister company to Copperline Music Group. Brahan will report directly to Sprockets founder and owner, Will Edwards.

In her new role, Brahan will continue to grow the company’s catalog by enhancing its innovative approach to placing music for film and television, as well as traditional music outlets.

Prior to Sprockets, Brahan worked at Big Yellow Dog Music and also had previous career stops at Combustion Music and Big Loud. During her time at those companies, she launched and revamped catalogs, worked in both mechanical and sync licensing, oversaw writer contracts, managed various publishing administration duties, and handled licensing for EP and album releases. She worked with writers including Josh Kear, Chris Tompkins, Daniel Tashian, Maren Morris, Craig Wiseman, and Meghan Trainor. Brahan has a degree in Music Business from Middle Tennessee State University.

“Over the many years of knowing Elizabeth, I have seen how she takes every work opportunity to fine-tune and elevate her skills,” said Dewayne Brown, Copperline Music Group’s Head of A&R and Label Acquisitions. “Her experience in the business side of publishing, including contracts, all inner workings of a publishing company, paired with her deep passion for songs makes her the perfect fit for her new role.  We are thrilled to have her join the Sprockets/CMG family.”

“I am incredibly honored to have the opportunity to work for a company with so much innovation and vision,” Brahan said. “I am thankful to Will Edwards for his belief in me, as well as the enormous support from Dewayne Brown. I look forward to what we have to come for the writers and all those working alongside Sprockets.”

Teddy Swims is releasing a cover of Shania Twain’s classic “You’re Still The One.” He teamed up with producer Dave Cobb for his rendition of the song, which is out today. Swims initially posted a cover of the song on his YouTube channel in October 2019 and it has become his most-viewed cover video to date, surpassing 31 million streams.

“Shania Twain’s ‘You’re Still The One’ brings back so many beautiful memories for me,” said Swims. “It’s been one of my Mom’s favorite songs for as long as I can remember. It has always taken me back to such a blissful place in my life. My cover of this song will always and forever be dedicated to my mother, Glenna.”

Swims has built a devoted fan base with his unique covers. In June, he released a cover of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and donated the royalties of the song to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. In May, he released an intimate cover of The Weeknd’s No. 1 global smash “Blinding Lights.” Over a year ago Swims posted his first YouTube cover, Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You,” and he now has 1.3 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. His videos covering artists like Lewis Capaldi, Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish and Khalid have racked up an astonishing 143 million views.

In January, Swims signed to Warner Records, released his first original song “Picky” and embarked on his first nationwide, sold-out headline tour.

Warner Music Nashville artist Tucker Beathard will release the second installment of his debut double album, KING, on Aug. 21. Beathard serves as co-producer, co-writer, lead guitarist and drummer on the project.

Over the course of 13 songs, Beathard welcomes co-writers including Jonathan Singleton, Donovan Woods, Marla Cannon-Goodman, Phil O’Donnell and Luke Dick.

The album title is a tribute to the middle name of Beathard’s late brother, Clay, who was tragically killed during an altercation in Nashville in December 2019. The album’s closer, “I Ain’t Without You,” was co-written with his father and fellow songwriter Casey Beathard, and serves as a message to his late brother, but also an encouragement to others struggling through tragedy.

“For me music has always been a way to escape,” explains Beathard. “There’s a lot of things people are dealing with internally that they don’t have voices for right now, and I’ve learned that if I write from the heart, if I sing from experience, I can be that voice. Some people can’t pinpoint what they’re feeling, but they can hear a song and be like ‘Damn, that’s it,’ and I hope I can help them get there with this record. These songs mean a lot to me and I feel really ready to share them with the world.”

KING – Official Track List:
1. Better Than Me
Tucker Beathard, Dan Isbell, Jonathan Singleton
2. You Would Think
Tucker Beathard, Casey Beathard, Donovan Woods
3. One Upper
Tucker Beathard, Jeff Hyde, Ben Stennis
4. 20/10 TN
Tucker Beathard, Casey Beathard, Phil O’Donnell​
5. Paper Town
Tucker Beathard, Phil O’Donnell, Monty Criswell
6. You On
Tucker Beathard, Casey Beathard, Luke Dick
7. Miss You Now
Tucker Beathard, Donovan Woods, Todd Clark
8. Only
Tucker Beathard, Marla Cannon-Goodman
9. Find Me Here
Tucker Beathard, Phil O’Donnell, Monty Criswell
10. Too Drunk
Tucker Beathard, Joe Whelan, Shane MInor
11. Faithful
Tucker Beathard, Marla Cannon-Goodman
12. Can’t Stay Here
Tucker Beathard, Ryan Tyndell, Joe Whelan, Will Lamb
13. I Ain’t Without You
Tucker Beathard, Casey Beathard

In March, shortly after quarantines began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, T. Graham Brown began searching for a way to continue reaching fans with his music. He called upon several of his fellow artists, including Wade Hayes, Bryan White, Tim Rushlow, Ronnie McDowell, David Frizzell, Tim Atwood and Lulu Roman, to launch Hats Off To the 80s & 90s-The Music Continues.

The artists began offering acoustic performances from the 615 Hideaway Studio in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, and their efforts have now earned the group a Telly Award, with a Bronze win for Social Media Live Event.

“Man, you know we pulled this together in like 4 days and it was a labor of love,” says T. Graham Brown, who served as the Executive Producer for the show. “I called on a few friends who didn’t feel comfortable getting out and I completely understood. I then called some others and they were like ‘Sure, as long as we are all gonna be safe about it’. I never expected anyone to really pay much attention to what we were doing, to be completely honest about it. To win an award for doing something from the heart is really a pretty cool thing.”

Founded in 1979, The Telly Awards honor excellence in local, regional and cable television commercials as well as non-broadcast video and television programming. With the recent evolution and rise of digital video (web series, VR, 360 and beyond), the Telly Awards today also reflects and celebrates this exciting new era of the moving image on and offline. The Telly Awards annually receive over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents, showcasing the best work created within television and across video, for all screens.

It has been five years since singer-songwriter Cam released her sterling debut major label album, Untamed, which contained the 2x multi-Platinum-selling hit “Burning House,” the signature ballad which earned Cam nominations from the Grammys, CMAs, and ACMs. On Oct. 30, the wait will be over, as Cam will release her long-awaited sophomore album, The Otherside (Triple Tigers Records/RCA Records).

The Otherside took shape over the past three years in writing rooms and studios in Nashville, Los Angeles and New York. She reunited with Jeff Bhasker and Tyler Johnson, her co-writers on “Burning House,” but also spent time at Electric Lady Studios, working with Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lana Del Rey) on the newly-released track “Classic.”

“I have always been an admirer of his,” Cam tells MusicRow. “I saw him do so much great work with female artists that I really admire. It resonated with me to see women pull through with really amazing work. We just sat down and had this great connection writing this song. Songwriting can be hard because you are trying so hard to make it perfect, but sometimes it just falls out and feels good and you are so happy with the experience. I think this was the last song I wrote for the album.”

“Classic” draws upon lyrical portraits of ageless, nostalgic imagery, from prom dates to mixtapes, Johnny and June to Bette Davis and Yellow Pages.

“My husband Adam, when we were traveling in Argentina, he found some Lucky Strike cigarettes and he was like, ‘They don’t make them like that anymore,’” she says of the setting that sparked the idea for the first line of “Classic.”

“Jack started strumming a Simon & Garfunkel, up-tempo, ‘Cecelia’-type vibe and it felt so happy. I feel like a lot of times you can get introspective and are trying really hard to answer things for yourself, which is what I do a lot and this one—I tend to feel things in my body when I’m writing and this felt like home. The words that matched that feeling described a person in your life, like a soulmate or a sibling—or for me, my husband—it’s a relationship that outlasts the trends and transcends time. I think especially right now we are really being reminded of how important those kinds of relationships are.”

The album will mark her first effort under a newly-inked deal with Nashville-based Triple Tigers Records, alongside her longtime home at RCA Records. The new partnership further cements her intention as a country artist, following her split from Sony Music Nashville in 2018, after which she continued to be represented solely through Sony’s New York office, via RCA Records.

“People think, ‘Well did your sound change because your partners changed?’ The sound never changed. I’m making the same music I want to make and the way I want to do it. But it means a lot when you are a part of this community, to just feel like you have a home in Nashville when you’re making country music,” she says. “RCA is incredible and have been with me since the beginning and they have Tyler Childers, too, so they know how to support country music. But I needed that Nashville home base. I’ve been really looking for the right partner.”

Triple Tigers Records has had a good run of success with Scotty McCreery (who earned a Gold certification for his album Seasons Change and recently notched his third consecutive career No. 1) and Russell Dickerson (who has also earned three No. 1 hits, certified Platinum and multi-Platinum).

“It is really fun because [Triple Tigers Records GM//Partner] Norbert Nix, he thinks of things and how to do things the best way possible. Their track record proves that he is doing things smart and that is innovative and I want to be a part of that. That’s what I want with my art, too,” Cam says. “Honestly, from the first time we connected more than a year and a half ago, it just felt right. When you find people that are on the same page as you and believe in you and you believe in them, that’s irreplaceable. You have to have a partner in the trenches with you. We’ve been trying to figure out how to make the partnership work for a while.”

Her new album has plenty of life experience to draw from. In the past few years, Cam’s keen, introspective writing style has found support and an audience far beyond Nashville. In 2018, she joined pop superstar Sam Smith on tour, after co-writing the song “Palace” for his album The Thrill of It All. She also offered her own headlining show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, after opening for Harry Styles in the same venue in 2017. Last year, she collaborated with Diplo on the song “So Long,” from his Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley, Chapter 1 effort. She married husband Adam Weaver in 2016, and welcomed daughter Lucy Marvel in December 2019.

The Otherside takes its name from another track on the project, one that celebrates the struggles, joys, transitions, maturity, and insights gleaned during the time that has passed since her debut album.

“This has been a five-year journey between albums and I have gone through so much and obviously the world has gone through so much. I’ve become a mom, so many lessons learned and figuring things out. I feel like a different person on the other side of it. It’s a sort of awareness you get when you are on the other side of it. This is who I am. It’s a never-ending process but at this five-year point, I feel like this specific five years getting to this point, I really am on the other side of something and it’s amazing.”