Lonnie Fowler has signed a publishing deal with Amylase and Warner/Chappell Music. The Pennsylvania native had a Top 10 hit with Bucky Covington’s “I’ll Walk,” and also has multiple cuts on the upcoming Jordan Davis project on Universal Records.

 

Razor & Tie Music Publishing is doubling down on the Nashville music market, announcing six recently-signed additions to its roster. The new signings include Ian Fitchuk, Peter Groenwald, Jill Andrews, Jeremy Lutito, Danny Orton, and Andy Skib.

The music publishing company will celebrate its new signings with the “Razor & Tie Family Jam,” a live show featuring new artists and backed by a band nearly exclusively made of Razor & Tie writers and musicians. The show will take place June 6 beginning at 6 p.m. at Nashville venue The Back Corner (located on 5th Avenue North).

Razor & Tie Music Publishing VP Creative, Brad Kennard, says of the signings, “Nashville has become a convergence point for musical talent – it is where genres can collide with positive results, great songs get written and exciting tracks gets produced. The Razor & Tie Publishing team is thrilled to be working with this diverse group of newly signed writers – and we are already off to the races.”

Since opening in 2007, Razor & Tie Music Publishing has been fiercely devoted to representing multiple genres of music, and the relocation of the company’s Nashville office to its current SoBro residence.

More about Razor & Tie’s newest writers:

Ian Fitchuk

Fitchuk moved to Nashville in 2000 to study jazz piano at Belmont University, when he was recruited by a local jam band to go on the road. He later began working with Griffin House. Fitchuk has written and produced with Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Andrew Combs, Lucie Silvas, Mindy Smith, and more. He has also collaborated with Kesha, Cam, Brothers Osborne, Amy Grant, Buddy Miller and more. He has had a track featured in an advertisement for Google and has had several songs placed on the television show Nashville.

 

Peter Groenwald

Groenwald moved to Nashville after graduating high school and soon joined with MCA group Llama, playing keyboards and offering background vocals for John Mayer and O.A.R. During his 10 years on the road, he made appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brian and performed at Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Ryman Auditorium. In 2011, he self-produced and released the EP Sweet Science. He has produced songs and records for Liz Longley, Holley Maher, Adam Agin, Jill Andrews and Zoe Sky Jordan. His writing credits include songs by Mindy Smith, Sarah Siskind, Amy Stroup, K.S. Rhoads, Wayne Kirkpatrick, and Matthew Perryman Jones.

 

Jill Andrews

Andrews offers a mix of pop, indie rock, and Appalachian sounds on her newest solo record, The War Inside. She has toured with The Avett Brothers, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors and Mandolin Orange, as well as headlined her own shows. Andrews also recently released singles such as “The End of Everything” and “Lost It All” which have received numerous placements in popular television shows including Nashville, Teen Wolf and Finding Carter. Additionally, she wrote and performed the theme song to the hit TV series Wynonna Earp.

 

Jeremy Lutito

Colorado native and emerging producer/writer, Lutito got his start as an in-demand session drummer working with a wide range of artists such as Jack White, Michael Kiwanuka, Ingrid Michaelson, Mat Kearney and Marc Broussard.

In 2012 he jumped into the producer chair and within 4 years wrote and produced 2 albums with his own band, Leagues. Since 2016, Jeremy has produced tracks for the band Colony House, as well as The New Respects and Joseph Lemay. He also produced and mixed the first recordings in 38 years for the late Chuck Berry, which will be released this summer. Lutito is currently collaborating with artists such as The Lone Bellow, Sam Tinnesz, Who is Fancy, Erin McCarley and Nawas, among others.

 

Danny Orton

Orton is a country songwriter and producer; active since the late ’90s, as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Dan+Shay, Michael Ray, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, Pat Green, Love and Theft, and more.

His credits include the No. 1 single “Stand” by Rascal Flatts as well as others by the hit group, including “Too Good Is True” and “Like I Am.” His work includes the No. 2 single “Fall Into Me” by Emerson Drive; and the No. 12 single “Let Me” by Pat Green.

He has also written for Tim McGraw, Billy Ray Cyrus, Reba McEntire, and Chicago, among others. Orton co-wrote and co-produced “19 You and Me” (RIAA Platinum) and “Show You Off,” the first two singles for Dan + Shay, along with co-producing 10 out of the 12 songs on their debut record.

 

Andy Skib

Tulsa, Oklahoma native Skib grew up fronting his regional rock band Midwest Kings, where he later went on to join American Idol winner, David Cook’s band on guitar/piano/background vocals from 2008-2014. Shortly after moving to Nashville from Los Angeles in January of 2013, Andy joined Dan + Shay’s touring band playing guitar/piano/bgvs.

Eventually, he left the touring life and went on to focus on producing and writing in Nashville, earning production credit on Brett Eldredge’s 2017 single “Something I’m Good At” from his self titled album, as well as, “No Stopping You” from the same album.

peermusic has renewed its long-term global publishing deal for the catalog of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs. During his life, Scruggs was a collaborator with and close friend to many at peermusic, including peermusic founder Ralph Peer. Scruggs died in 2012.

“It’s hard to think of a more perfect model for the relationship between a songwriter and a publisher than Earl Scruggs and peermusic,” said Kathy Spanberger, President and COO-peermusic Anglo American Region. “Earl and peermusic worked together successfully for decades to share his music with the world, and I’m so glad that his sons, Gary, Randy and peermusic have the opportunity to extend this partnership.”

“Our father left an incredible legacy with his music, and our family wants to do everything we can to preserve that legacy so that his songs can be enjoyed by generations to come,” said Randy and Gary Scruggs in a joint statement. “peermusic is the publisher he trusted for many years—they’ve been friends to our family throughout the years and they know his catalog as well as anybody, so keeping our dad’s catalog with peermusic was an easy decision.”

Scruggs, a gifted songwriter and five-string banjo player, revolutionized the bluegrass genre with a three-fingered picking style that has since become a hallmark of bluegrass banjo. He began his career in 1945, when he joined Bill Monroe’s band and met Lester Flatt. The two were mainstays of Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys for a little over two years before striking out on their own.

Performing as Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, the band eventually began playing major folk festivals as well as some of the nation’s biggest stages, including Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk Festival. Among their signature recordings are “Earl’s Breakdown,” “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” (the iconic opening and closing theme for The Beverly Hillbillies) and “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” (a song Scruggs wrote and recorded in 1949, which was featured prominently in the 1967 film Bonnie And Clyde).

In 1969 Scruggs began pursuing a solo career by enlisting his sons Gary and Randy to perform with him as the Earl Scruggs Revue. The group found success recording for Columbia Records throughout the 1970s. Scruggs is a member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Hall of Fame as well as a recipient of four Grammy Awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a National Medal of Arts.