The next time someone complains that they can’t find any real country music, point them to any one of the 500 bluegrass festivals that take place each year.
Or you could direct them to any one of the records that we survey in this edition of DisClaimer.
Bluegrass albums are also where you’re most likely to find remakes of country classics. On the various CDs listed below, you’ll find new versions of “Tennessee Flat Top Box,” “Bye Bye Love,” “Americana,” “Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me,” “Not Fade Away,” “Always Late,” “Let It Be Me,” “The Sweetest Gift,” “Crying in the Rain,” “All I Have to Offer You Is Me” and more.
In fact, the DisCovery Award goes to Antique Persuasion, whose CD is nothing but remakes of Carter Family classics.
Nashville’s beloved The SteelDrivers released its fourth album last week, The Muscle Shoals Recordings. It wins the Disc of the Day prize.
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER/Roll Big River
Writer: Dustin Pyrtle/Eli Johnston; Producer: Doyle Lawson; Publisher: Top O’ Holston, BMI; Mountain Home (track) (www.doylelawson.com)
—He is already a member of the Bluegrass Hall of Honor, but Lawson is not resting on his laurels. His band remains the benchmark for tightly-rehearsed and flawlessly executed harmony singing and lightning-fast picking. The In Session CD kicks off with this, a track so rapid-fire that it practically gives you whiplash while listening. It has now become the group’s umpteenth journey into the bluegrass top-10.
STEVE GULLEY & NEW PINNACLE/Leaving Crazytown
Writer: Steve Gulley/Tim Stafford; Producer: Steve Gulley; Publisher: Gulley’s Curve/Daniel House, BMK; Rural Rhythm (track) (www.stevegulley.com)
—This is a classic, high-lonesome sound. Gulley’s skyscraper-reaching tenor is surrounded by dazzling mandolin, banjo and guitar picking on this lead-off track of its new CD. The shower of notes is the aural equivalent of a fireworks display. Gulley can be a little flat and pitch-y at times, but with so much excitement raining down around him, who notices?
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW/Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer
Writer: Secor; Producer: Ted Hutt; Publisher: Blood Donor/Downtown DMP, BMI; ATO (track)
—The group that brought us “Wagon Wheel” is marking time between full albums with a four-song EP. Its title tune is a raucous, rollicking celebration of a good-behavior time-out for prison conjugal visits. The Grand Ole Opry’s resident old-time music band is definitely raising eyebrows with this stomper.
THE LONESOME TRIO/Asheville City Skyline
Writer: Ed Helms; Producer: Gary Paczosa & The Lonesome Trio; Publisher: Gumshoe Canoe, ASCAP; Sugar Hill (track)
—Nowadays, we know comic actor Ed Helms for his long-running role on The Office, his spots on The Daily Show and his stardom in the three Hangover movies. But back in his Ohio college days at Oberlin, he was picking and singing with Jacob Tilove and Ian Riggs. The three have maintained musical contact ever since, and now they’ve recorded their first album together. The sound retains that good-time, collegiate, hootenanny, folk-bluegrass jam-session mood.
ANTIQUE PERSUASION/Don’t Forget Me Little Darling
Writer: A.P. Carter; Producer: Jimmy Metts; Publisher: Peer, BMI; Voxhall (track)
—The listening party for this trio’s CD at Douglas Corner this month was one of those magical Nashville nights. I am doubly glad that I went because their spine-tingling vocal and instrumental ensemble work will only rarely be heard. Fiddler/singer Jenee Fleenor is on the road in Blake Shelton’s band. Brandon Rickman is on the bluegrass-festival circuit singing and picking with the Lonesome River Band. The divine singer-songwriter-guitarist Brennen Leigh plies her trade in the clubs of Austin and Nashville. She sings lead on this rippling title tune to their tribute CD to The Carter Family. Producer Jimmy Metts wisely lets their exquisite acoustic playing and flawless harmony singing lead the way. The result is an album that brings the Carters’ music renewed luster without being slavishly imitative. “Antique Persuasion,” by the way, is a play on A.P. Carter’s name.
RONNIE RENO/Lower Than Lonesome
Writer: Ronnie Reno; Producer: Ronnie Reno; Publisher: Bucksnort, BMI; Rural Rhythm (track) (www.ronniereno.com)
—Ronnie Reno is celebrating 60 years in entertainment with the release of his Lessons Learned CD. His accomplishments range from writing Conway Twitty’s 1978 hit “Boogie Grass Band” to hosting Reno’s Old Time Music cable show every Saturday night on RFD-TV. As the collection’s yearning, uptempo first single amply shows, he is still a hearty, sturdy presence as a singer-songwriter. Guests on the album include David Frizzell and Sonya Isaacs.
THE STEELDRIVERS/Long Way Down
Writer: Jerry Salley/Liz Hengber/Tammy Rogers; Producer: The SteelDrivers; Publisher: Den What/Star Struck/Giving Out Wings/Tammy’s Tunes, SESAC/ASCAP; Rounder (track) (www.thesteeldrivers.com)
—Chris Stapleton and Mike Henderson have departed, but this Nashville ensemble has lost none of its edge. Soulful Gary Nichols is more than up to the task of filling the fiery lead-vocalist slot. He also provides five of the new tunes. Founding fiddler Tammy Rogers has stepped up to the plate by co-writing five more, including this piledriving lament that kicks off the CD. I remain an enormous fan.
DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE/Tennessee Flat Top Box
Writer: Johnny Cash; Producer: Darin & Brooke Aldridge; Publisher: Chappell, ASCAP; Mountain Home (track) (www.darinandbrookealdridge.com)
—Brooke sings lead and Darin handles the deft guitar picking that this song requests. Originally a hit for Johnny Cash in 1962 and revived by Rosanne Cash (with Randy Scruggs on guitar) in 1987, it lends itself beautifully to a bluegrass treatment. An A-plus. Also check out their heart-stopping vocal duet on “Let It Be Me.” The album is called Snapshot. I call it essential.
THE GIBSON BROTHERS/Bye Bye Love
Writer: Boudleaux Bryant/Felice Bryant; Producer: Leight Gibson, Eric Gibson & Mike Barber; Publisher: House of Bryant, BMI; Rounder (track) (www.gibsonbrothers.com)
—These former IBMA award winners are back in the bluegrass top-10 with a breezy remake of this 1957 Everly Brothers classic. It’s jaunty and listenable, but the song is so closely associated with its original version that the only way to truly revive it would be to rearrange it far more radically than the Gibsons do. That said, the rest of the duo’s new Brotherhood CD is awesome.
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE/Honky-Tonked to Death
Writer: Bill Castle; Producer: Wes Easter & Ramblers Choice; Publisher: Yonder Hills, BMI; Rebel (track) (www.juniorsisk.us)
—This ditty hit No. 1 on the Bluegrass Unlimited chart last month. It’s a clever piece of songwriting wherein the protagonist loses his gal when he starts frequenting barrooms. “Love didn’t die a natural cause/It was honky-tonked to death.” Sisk’s countryboy voice is as comfy as an old shoe, and the track zips along with propulsion from banjo, mandolin and fiddle.
Industry Pics: Cam With CRB, Maria Pallante Visit, AFM Honors Randall Franks, BLA Signing
/by Lorie HollabaughCam Plays For CRB Board
Arista Nashville’s Cam treated the CRB board members to a special luncheon show Thursday in Nashville.
Pictured (L-R): Charlie Morgan (WLHK Indianapolis Market Manager), Lesly Simon (Arista Nashville, VP Radio Promotions), Cam, Clay Hunnicutt (EVP & GM National Programming Platforms iHeartMedia), Bill Mayne (Executive Director of CRB/CRS)
The Recording Academy Hosts Roundtable With Martina McBride, Maria Pallante
The Recording Academy welcomed Maria Pallante, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, to Nashville earlier this week (June 24) to meet with music creators including Martina McBride and the Nashville Creator Roundtable. They discussed issues surrounding music legislation currently before Congress. The Roundtable meeting was created to enable lawmakers to better grasp the challenges that music creators face in music communities around the country.
Pictured (L-R): Matt Maher, Kevin Griffin, Brandon Heath, Laura Segura Mueller, Maria Pallante, Bill Reynolds, John McBride, Martina McBride, Todd Dupler, Alicia Warwick, Jeff Balding and Shannon Sanders.
Photo: Courtesy of The Recording Academy® /Wireimage.com © 2015/ Frederick Breedon
Randall Franks Marks 25 Years With AFM
Musician/producer Dave Pomeroy, American Federation of Musicians Local 257 president, recently recognized entertainer and fiddler Randall Franks, (“Officer Randy Goode” from TV’s In the Heat of the Night,) for achieving 25 years of membership in the Nashville Association of Musicians. Franks became part of the union when he first performed on the Grand Ole Opry in 1984. Franks also surpassed 25 years in the Screen Actors Guild now merged as SAG-AFTRA.
Pictured (L-R): Dave Pomeroy and Randall Franks
Justin Forrest Signs With BLA
Buddy Lee Attractions has announced the addition of indie artist/guitar virtuoso Justin Forrest to its roster. The talented 22-year-old first picked up the guitar at age seven and made his way into the Nashville music scene three years ago by winning the SESAC Next Project Showcase.
Pictured (L-R): Responsible agent Mike Meade, Justin Forrest, Grayson Flatness
Holograms Generate Big Potential for Estates: Patsy Cline To Tour
/by Eric T. ParkerPatsy Cline
In 2016, Patsy Cline will appear via hologram for full concert performances. The project was approved by Cline’s widower Charles Dick and will be executed by California-based Hologram USA for a show complete with commentary, audience interaction and appearances by present day A-list talent.
“We chose Patsy as our first Country hologram project, and our first female hologram project, for a reason: she was a pioneer who influenced generations of singers around the globe,” said Alki David, CEO of Hologram USA.
“We are very glad to share Patsy and her music with this new technology and format and honored by Hologram USA’s choice to have her as the first,” said Charles Dick on behalf of the family. “I am sure her fans, old and new, will be thrilled.”
The show will include such hits as “Walking After Midnight,” “I Fall to Pieces” and “Crazy.”
Since Cline’s tragic death in an airplane crash in 1963 she has continued to be one of the top catalog artists for UMusic/MCA/Decca with record sales in excess of 25 million copies. She has also been honored with a U.S. postage stamp, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Grammy Award and was the subject of a feature movie starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris.
The first woman to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame will join previously deceased celebrities from the fields of music, comedy and sports to be brought back to life via Hologram USA licensing deals, including Liberace, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, and many more.
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MusicRow explored the rising potential of holograms in a print article in the MusicRow Awards issue (June/July 2015). Subscribe through July 2015 to receive your free issue. An excerpt, below:
–Eric T. Parker
After the 48th Annual CMA Awards, Florida Georgia Line performs “Anything Goes” and “Sun Daze” live from the CMA Theater in Nashville, which was broadcast via hologram onto Jimmy Kimmel’s outdoor stage in Hollywood, Calif. Photo: Randy Holmes/ABC
(Top):Kelly Clarkson preps hologram-like video for “Don’t You Wanna Stay” with Scott Scovill. (Bottom): Inner workings of one of Scovill’s two high definition LCD screens, created for concert tours by Moo TV. Photos: Moo TV
True Public Relations Inks Florida Georgia Line
/by Sarah SkatesThe company owned by Marcel Pariseau also represents Miranda Lambert, as well as a slew of top Hollywood actors.
Pariseau is a PR vet with more than twenty years of experience. His client list includes luminaries Catherine Zeta-Jones, Scarlett Johansson, Heather Locklear, Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Bill Maher, Patricia Heaton, Melissa Etheridge, Rachel Bilson, Alex Kingston, Rachel Bilson, Brittany Snow, and Kristen Bell. The company currently represents HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.
Cece Yorke and Sarah Fuller also work at the full-service entertainment publicity firm.
Weekly Chart Report (6/26/15)
/by Troy_StephensonClick here or above to access MusicRow‘s weekly CountryBreakout Report.
SiriusXM To Pay For Pre-1972 Music; Labels Win $210 Million Settlement
/by Sarah SkatesThe satellite radio broadcaster will pay $210 million to plaintiffs ABKCO Music & Records, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, UMG Recordings, and Warner Music Group. The case is titled Capitol Records LLC et al vs Sirius XM Radio Inc.
The settlement provides a nationwide resolution for SiriusXM’s use of the plaintiffs’ pre-1972 recordings.
“This is a great step forward for all music creators,” said Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Chairman & CEO Cary Sherman. “Music has tremendous value, whether it was made in 1970 or 2015. We hope others take note of this important agreement and follow SiriusXM’s example.”
SoundExchange President and CEO Michael Huppe said, “While it unfortunately required a lawsuit to make Sirius XM do the right thing, we are pleased that these legacy artists are finally getting the respect—and compensation—they deserve for the use of their music. SoundExchange consistently champions the right for all artists to be paid fairly across all platforms, regardless of when their music was recorded.”
Swiss Sensation Anna Rossinelli Visits Nashville During American Road Trip
/by Troy_StephensonRossinelli has released three albums since 2011. She got her start on the Eurovision Song Contest, where she won the Swiss National Final in 2010.
Anna Rossinelli and team with the MusicRow staff.
Anna Rossinelli, bandmates and Trisha Walker-Cunningham (L) also visited hit songwriter Victoria Shaw (center).
DisClaimer: The SteelDrivers, Antique Persuasion Lead Bluegrass Releases
/by Robert K OermannOr you could direct them to any one of the records that we survey in this edition of DisClaimer.
Bluegrass albums are also where you’re most likely to find remakes of country classics. On the various CDs listed below, you’ll find new versions of “Tennessee Flat Top Box,” “Bye Bye Love,” “Americana,” “Don’t You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me,” “Not Fade Away,” “Always Late,” “Let It Be Me,” “The Sweetest Gift,” “Crying in the Rain,” “All I Have to Offer You Is Me” and more.
In fact, the DisCovery Award goes to Antique Persuasion, whose CD is nothing but remakes of Carter Family classics.
Nashville’s beloved The SteelDrivers released its fourth album last week, The Muscle Shoals Recordings. It wins the Disc of the Day prize.
DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER/Roll Big River
Writer: Dustin Pyrtle/Eli Johnston; Producer: Doyle Lawson; Publisher: Top O’ Holston, BMI; Mountain Home (track) (www.doylelawson.com)
—He is already a member of the Bluegrass Hall of Honor, but Lawson is not resting on his laurels. His band remains the benchmark for tightly-rehearsed and flawlessly executed harmony singing and lightning-fast picking. The In Session CD kicks off with this, a track so rapid-fire that it practically gives you whiplash while listening. It has now become the group’s umpteenth journey into the bluegrass top-10.
STEVE GULLEY & NEW PINNACLE/Leaving Crazytown
Writer: Steve Gulley/Tim Stafford; Producer: Steve Gulley; Publisher: Gulley’s Curve/Daniel House, BMK; Rural Rhythm (track) (www.stevegulley.com)
—This is a classic, high-lonesome sound. Gulley’s skyscraper-reaching tenor is surrounded by dazzling mandolin, banjo and guitar picking on this lead-off track of its new CD. The shower of notes is the aural equivalent of a fireworks display. Gulley can be a little flat and pitch-y at times, but with so much excitement raining down around him, who notices?
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW/Brushy Mountain Conjugal Trailer
Writer: Secor; Producer: Ted Hutt; Publisher: Blood Donor/Downtown DMP, BMI; ATO (track)
—The group that brought us “Wagon Wheel” is marking time between full albums with a four-song EP. Its title tune is a raucous, rollicking celebration of a good-behavior time-out for prison conjugal visits. The Grand Ole Opry’s resident old-time music band is definitely raising eyebrows with this stomper.
THE LONESOME TRIO/Asheville City Skyline
Writer: Ed Helms; Producer: Gary Paczosa & The Lonesome Trio; Publisher: Gumshoe Canoe, ASCAP; Sugar Hill (track)
—Nowadays, we know comic actor Ed Helms for his long-running role on The Office, his spots on The Daily Show and his stardom in the three Hangover movies. But back in his Ohio college days at Oberlin, he was picking and singing with Jacob Tilove and Ian Riggs. The three have maintained musical contact ever since, and now they’ve recorded their first album together. The sound retains that good-time, collegiate, hootenanny, folk-bluegrass jam-session mood.
Writer: A.P. Carter; Producer: Jimmy Metts; Publisher: Peer, BMI; Voxhall (track)
—The listening party for this trio’s CD at Douglas Corner this month was one of those magical Nashville nights. I am doubly glad that I went because their spine-tingling vocal and instrumental ensemble work will only rarely be heard. Fiddler/singer Jenee Fleenor is on the road in Blake Shelton’s band. Brandon Rickman is on the bluegrass-festival circuit singing and picking with the Lonesome River Band. The divine singer-songwriter-guitarist Brennen Leigh plies her trade in the clubs of Austin and Nashville. She sings lead on this rippling title tune to their tribute CD to The Carter Family. Producer Jimmy Metts wisely lets their exquisite acoustic playing and flawless harmony singing lead the way. The result is an album that brings the Carters’ music renewed luster without being slavishly imitative. “Antique Persuasion,” by the way, is a play on A.P. Carter’s name.
RONNIE RENO/Lower Than Lonesome
Writer: Ronnie Reno; Producer: Ronnie Reno; Publisher: Bucksnort, BMI; Rural Rhythm (track) (www.ronniereno.com)
—Ronnie Reno is celebrating 60 years in entertainment with the release of his Lessons Learned CD. His accomplishments range from writing Conway Twitty’s 1978 hit “Boogie Grass Band” to hosting Reno’s Old Time Music cable show every Saturday night on RFD-TV. As the collection’s yearning, uptempo first single amply shows, he is still a hearty, sturdy presence as a singer-songwriter. Guests on the album include David Frizzell and Sonya Isaacs.
THE STEELDRIVERS/Long Way Down
Writer: Jerry Salley/Liz Hengber/Tammy Rogers; Producer: The SteelDrivers; Publisher: Den What/Star Struck/Giving Out Wings/Tammy’s Tunes, SESAC/ASCAP; Rounder (track) (www.thesteeldrivers.com)
—Chris Stapleton and Mike Henderson have departed, but this Nashville ensemble has lost none of its edge. Soulful Gary Nichols is more than up to the task of filling the fiery lead-vocalist slot. He also provides five of the new tunes. Founding fiddler Tammy Rogers has stepped up to the plate by co-writing five more, including this piledriving lament that kicks off the CD. I remain an enormous fan.
DARIN & BROOKE ALDRIDGE/Tennessee Flat Top Box
Writer: Johnny Cash; Producer: Darin & Brooke Aldridge; Publisher: Chappell, ASCAP; Mountain Home (track) (www.darinandbrookealdridge.com)
—Brooke sings lead and Darin handles the deft guitar picking that this song requests. Originally a hit for Johnny Cash in 1962 and revived by Rosanne Cash (with Randy Scruggs on guitar) in 1987, it lends itself beautifully to a bluegrass treatment. An A-plus. Also check out their heart-stopping vocal duet on “Let It Be Me.” The album is called Snapshot. I call it essential.
THE GIBSON BROTHERS/Bye Bye Love
Writer: Boudleaux Bryant/Felice Bryant; Producer: Leight Gibson, Eric Gibson & Mike Barber; Publisher: House of Bryant, BMI; Rounder (track) (www.gibsonbrothers.com)
—These former IBMA award winners are back in the bluegrass top-10 with a breezy remake of this 1957 Everly Brothers classic. It’s jaunty and listenable, but the song is so closely associated with its original version that the only way to truly revive it would be to rearrange it far more radically than the Gibsons do. That said, the rest of the duo’s new Brotherhood CD is awesome.
JUNIOR SISK & RAMBLERS CHOICE/Honky-Tonked to Death
Writer: Bill Castle; Producer: Wes Easter & Ramblers Choice; Publisher: Yonder Hills, BMI; Rebel (track) (www.juniorsisk.us)
—This ditty hit No. 1 on the Bluegrass Unlimited chart last month. It’s a clever piece of songwriting wherein the protagonist loses his gal when he starts frequenting barrooms. “Love didn’t die a natural cause/It was honky-tonked to death.” Sisk’s countryboy voice is as comfy as an old shoe, and the track zips along with propulsion from banjo, mandolin and fiddle.
Brantley Gilbert, Lynyrd Skynyrd on ‘CMT Crossroads’ This Weekend
/by Lorie HollabaughBrantley Gilbert and Lynyrd Skynyrd put the pedal to the metal during their recent CMT Crossroads collaboration, which is set to debut Saturday (June 27) at 10 p.m. EST. Recorded in Franklin, Tenn., the episode includes the two acts trading hits like Gilbert’s “Bottoms Up,” and the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic “Simple Man.” The show marks Skynyrd’s second appearance on the eclectic musical mashup series a decade after their original appearance with Montgomery Gentry in 2004.
Pictured (L-R): Back row: Kathryn Russ, Executive Producer; Peter Keys, Lynyrd Skynyrd; Johnny Colt, Lynyrd Skynyrd; Leslie Fram, SVP Music Strategy, CMT; Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd; Rickey Medlocke, Lynyrd Skynyrd; Mark Matejka, Lynyrd Skynyrd; Michael Cartellone, Lynyrd Skynyrd; Front row: Johnny Van Zant, Lynyrd Skynyrd; Brantley Gilbert; John Hamlin, SVP Music Events and Talent, CMT; Margaret Comeaux, VP Music and Events Production, CMT
Brantley Gilbert and Johnny Van Zant. Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images
First Three Seasons of ‘Nashville’ to Air on AXS-TV
/by Lorie HollabaughNashville debuted on ABC in 2012 and recently concluded its third season, which drew an average of nearly eight million viewers per week. The series has spawned six Music of Nashville soundtracks which have collectively sold nearly one million units and over four million tracks to date, as well as a Christmas album and two Nashville: On The Record CDs and TV specials.
The series is produced by Lionsgate Television, ABC Studios and Opry Entertainment, and executive produced by Dee Johnson, Callie Khouri and Steve Buchanan.
Season four is set to premiere Sept. 23 on ABC.
Leadership Nashville Class Of 2016 Includes CAA’s Rod Essig
/by Sherod RobertsonRod A. Essig, Music Agent and Co-head, CAA Nashville
Forty-four community leaders have been named to participate in Leadership Nashville’s 40th class. Among those included in the nine-month program is Nashville music industry’s Rod Essig, Agent and Co-head of Nashville office at Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
“Selection was especially difficult this year because of the large number of very qualified applicants,” says Jerry B. Williams, Executive Director of Leadership Nashville.
The 44 participants were chosen from more than 215 applications. The selection process takes place each spring when alumni and the public are encouraged to nominate established leaders who are willing to devote the time and effort to an in-depth study of the community.
The program is designed to assist community leaders in their roles as decision makers. The course, which will begin in September, focuses on issues related to government, media, education, business, labor, diversity, quality of life, human services, health, arts, entertainment and crime and criminal justice.
Lawson C. Allen: President, Lee Danner & Bass, Inc.
Jill D. Austin: Chief Marketing Officer & Assist. Vice Chancellor, Vanderbilt University Medical Ctr.
Grace Awh: Community Volunteer
William Biggs: Director of Affordable Housing, Metropolitan Development & Housing Agency
Stephen Bland: CEO, Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority
Sheila Calloway: Judge, Davidson County Juvenile Court
Ravi Chari, MD: Senior Vice President, Clinical Excellence, Hospital Corporation of America
Rene D. Copeland: Producing Artistic Director, Nashville Repertory Theatre
Elizabeth E. DeBauche: Commissioner, Ohio Valley Conference
Parag Desai: Senior Vice President of Strategy & Shared Services, Genesco, Inc.
Kerry Dunn: President-Elect, Junior League of Nashville
Marjorie Eastman: President & COO, YWCA of Nashville & Middle Tennessee
Rod A. Essig: Music Agent/Co-head of Nashville Office, Creative Artists Agency
Paul D. Gilbert: Executive Vice President & Chief Legal Officer, Life Point Health
Glenda B. Glover, PhD: President, Tennessee State University
Max R. Goldberg: Co-Owner, Strategic Hospitality
S. Marcela Gomez: Founder & President, Hispanic Marketing Group, Inc.
Linda Claire Guttery: President, Junior Chamber of Commerce
Charles K. Hannon, Jr.: Executive Vice President, Healthcare Banking, First Tennessee Bank
Danny J. Herron: President & CEO, Nashville Area Habitat For Humanity
Daniel P. Hogan: President & CEO, Medalogix
Kelly S. Holmes: Senior Vice President & Commercial Team Leader, SunTrust Bank
Gordon G. Howey, Jr.: Captain, Youth Services Division, Metro Nashville Police Department
Jennifer L. Hutchison: Senior Vice President & Corporate Comptroller, Ryman Hospitality Properties
Jan D. Maddox: Director of Business Operations, Deloitte Services LP
Charles (Chuck) Mader: Senior Vice President & Regional Mortgage Executive, Regions Bank
Andrew Maraniss: Partner, McNeilly Piggott & Fox
Shaka Mitchell: Regional Director for Tennessee, Rocketship Education
John Murfee: Private Client Advisor, Bank of America U. S. Trust
Anna-Gene O’Neal: President & CEO, Alive Hospice
Carolyn W. Schott: Attorney/Shareholder, Sherrard & Roe
Bernard J. Sherry: President & CEO, St. Thomas West & MidTown Hospitals
Joshua H. Smith: Owner & General Manager, The Standard Club at Smith House
Kelly Miller Smith, Jr.: Pastor, First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill
Gatluak Tach: Executive Director, Nashville International Center for Empowerment
John R. Tarpley: Shareholder, Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop
Wendy J. Thompson: Vice Chancellor, Tennessee Board of Regents
Emilie Townes, DMin, PhD: Dean, Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Doreen Wade: General Manager, WSMV-TV4
Larry Whisenant: Senior Vice President & Client Services Manager, Pinnacle Financial Partners
Lisa Wiltshire: Director, Early Learning Innovation, Metro Nashville Public Schools
Matthew Wright: President, Disciplina Group
Helena W. Yarbrough: Associate General Counsel, Bridgestone Americas
Alan Young: President & CEO, Armour Concepts