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Florida Georgia Line

COUNTRY’S HOTTEST DUO ON THEIR METEORIC RISE

INTERVIEW WITH BMI ICON

PHOTO BY KRISTIN BARLOWE

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BMI NASHVILLE | FALL/WINTER 2013

04 COUNTRY’S HOTTEST DUO

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE

08 INTERVIEW WITH BMI ICON

DEAN DILLON

14 BMI EVENTS

08 JAKE OWEN BLOCK PARY

09 AWARDS

12 #1 PARTIES

16 BMI ON SOCIAL MEDIA

18 2013 BMI COUNTRY AWARDS WINNERS

JULIET SIMONNINA PACENT

ANGIE ROMERO

AELIN HU

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

MANAGING EDITOR

MANAGING EDITOR

DESIGN DIRECTOR

4 | BMI NASHVILLE FALL/WINTER 2013

When a career explodes the way it has this year for BMI’s Tyler

Hubbard and Brian Kelley, better known as the chart-topping

Florida Georgia Line, chances are it’s the result of a fuse that was lit

years ago.

For Hubbard and Kelley, that fuse was first sparked in the early 2000s,

when the two were teenagers and Kelley was hooked on Garth Brooks

and Hubbard was listening to Christian artists like Shane & Shane and

Chris Tomlin. Although they grew up more than 400 miles apart —

Hubbard in Monroe, Georgia, and Kelley in Ormond Beach, Florida

— they followed similar paths. Both picked up the guitar and joined

church bands, where they got an early education in singing harmony, a

fervor for melodies and a rhythmic drive that are core elements of both

gospel and country music. They both migrated to Nashville’s Belmont

University, a hotbed of musical higher education in country’s capital city

where Kelley majored in music industry studies and Hubbard pursued

a music business degree. After being introduced by a mutual friend, the

two started co-writing and that fuse began to burn bright.

“From the very first song we co-wrote, we knew there was something

special,” says Kelley. “We felt we were better writers doing it together.”

Hubbard adds, “We also loved singing together, and we became best

friends. It started then, and to this day we are still absolutely having the

time of our lives.”

PHOTO BY JUSTIN MRUSEK

BMI NASHVILLE | 5BMI.COM

BY TED DROZDOWSKI

COUNTRY’S HOTTEST DUOON THEIR METEORIC RISE

Florida Georgia

Line

But the astonishing success of Florida Georgia Line is more than a matter

of chemistry. Hard work, mentoring, perseverance and vision have all been

part of the equation that’s propelled the duo into the stratosphere. Their

first three singles — “Cruise,” “Get Your Shine On” and “Round Here” —

from their full-length debut album, Here’s to the Good Times, all reached

number one on the country charts and remained there for multiple weeks,

a feat not accomplished by a debut album since Brooks & Dunn’s Brand

New Man in 1991.

Riding this wave of success, Florida Georgia Line won the 2013 Academy

of Country Music’s New Artist of the Year and New Vocal Duo or Group

of the Year awards, and the 2013 CMT Music Award’s Duo Video of the

Year and Breakthrough Video of the Year trophies. Most recently, the

two were nominated for an impressive four CMA Awards including Vocal

Duo of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Single of the Year for “Cruise”

and Musical Event of the Year for their remix of “Cruise,” featuring hip

hop superstar Nelly. In addition to these accolades, in 2013 Hubbard and

Kelley won the praises of superstars Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Ed

Sheeran and joined Swift’s record-breaking Red tour as openers.

“This time last year we were touring in a van,” Hubbard explained when

BMI connected by phone with Florida Georgia Line during a stop in

Brookings, South Dakota — part of their own sold-out string of fall

headlining dates. “Now we’ve got three tour buses and three trailers,

BMI, FOR COUNTRY SONGWRITERS AND ARTISTS, IS THE BEST FIT IN NASHVILLE. THEY KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON IN NASHVILLE AND ON

THE ROAD. THEY GAVE US TOOLS TO GET BETTER… GETTING US INTO

WRITERS’ ROOMS, NETWORKING… THEY GAVE US THE ENCOURAGEMENT

AND CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM THAT WE NEEDED.

and believe me, it’s easier to get some rest and

write songs on a tour bus than it is in a van …

or in the Chevy Tahoe with a trailer we toured

in before that.”

Every one of the hundreds of thousands of miles

Hubbard and Kelley spent taking turns at the

wheel before they signed their first publishing

deal attests to the hard-working, self-reliant

nature that’s at the core of their success. Even

when they were still students, they crammed

writing time in-between classes and played tip-

jar gigs in songwriters’ bars after school. Upon

graduation, they hit the road, putting together

a band and booking themselves into roadhouses

wherever southern accents, twangy guitars and

close harmonies were welcome.

BMI became part of Florida Georgia Line’s

story early on and would play a pivotal role in

their graduation to the hot arena lights.

“We joined BMI before we were signed to

management,” Kelley relates. “We both felt

BMI, for country songwriters and artists, is the

best fit in Nashville. They know what’s going on

in Nashville and on the road. They gave us tools

to get better… getting us into writers’ rooms,

networking… They gave us the encouragement

and constructive criticism that we needed.”

Hubbard and Kelley cite BMI Nashville’s

Writer/Publisher Relations team including

Clay Bradley, Mark Mason, David Preston and

Leslie Roberts as early mentors and champions.

In 2012, BMI gave Florida Georgia Line a

crucial opportunity: a slot on the BMI stage at

the CMA Music Festival. Florida Georgia line

drew the largest crowd of the entire weekend,

with well over 1,000 fans in attendance for

their set at the inaugural stage.

Music industry executives in the VIP section

were shocked to see many of those fans singing

the words to the songs on Florida Georgia

Line’s first two ground-laying EPs, the high-

spirited Anything Like Me and It’z Just What

We Do. The first was made by the duo with the

help of friends and was released independently

in 2010, providing a springboard for their

initial touring and airplay. The second was

issued a month before the Festival, after they

began working with manager Seth England

and signed a publishing deal with GRAMMY

winning-songwriter Craig Wiseman’s Big

Loud Shirt Industries. England, Wiseman, Big

Loud Shirt writer/producer Joey Moi and artist

manager Kevin “Chief” Zaruk put together

a label, Big Loud Mountain, specifically to

release It’z Just What We Do, produced by

Moi, who would repeat that role for the smash

Here’s to the Good Times.

With a team in place, two successful EP’s

and a grassroots fan base aided by Buddy Lee

Attractions’ Kevin Neal, everything was lining

up by the time Florida Georgia Line hit the first

note outside LP Field.

“We took a chance putting them on the bill,

but we looked like we were brilliant,” BMI

Assistant Vice President, Writer/Publisher

Relations Clay Bradley recalls. “But that’s what

we want. We want to have a stage where we can

risk something and see if it pays off.”

“That event put us in front of a lot of people,”

says Kelley, “and a lot of record labels came to

see us. The fans were going crazy. And that’s

where Scott Borchetta saw us for the first time.

When I think that was just 18 months ago, I’m

blown away.”

Capturing the attention of Borchetta, the

Big Machine Records founder known for

discovering Taylor Swift, added rocket fuel to

their trajectory. He signed the band and they

began recording Here’s to the Good Times

PHOTO BY MICHAEL MONACO


Be you, try to find your own sound — and if you’re trying to write what’s on the radio, you’re already two steps behind.

with Moi in the studio on the bottom floor of

Big Loud Shirt on Music Row.

Teamwork and collaboration has played a

major role in Florida Georgia Line’s success,

both on and off the road. The two have had

the same road band since day one, so when

making their album, they adopted this same

model for success. Hubbard and Kelley relied

on fellow Big Loud Shirt songwriters Wiseman,

Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins and Moi

for help in penning the tracks “Get Your Shine

On” and “Cruise,” and Clawson, Tompkins

and singer-songwriter Thomas Rhett penned

“Round Here.” For Florida Georgia Line’s

just-released fourth single, “Stay,” Moi added

some lyrics and changed the arrangement of

the song originally recorded and written by the

Kentucky band Black Stone Cherry.

“From day one when we started FGL, we

said that if there’s some outside songs and we

feel like we could have been in the room the

day they were written, we’re gonna cut ’em,”

Hubbard relates. “We won’t record a song that

we’ve written that doesn’t measure up if we’ve

got a song by another writer that beats it. Our

fans don’t deserve that. And these guys are

among the best out there. We consider them

among our biggest influences. They’re huge

songwriters and they’ve become our buddies

and we’ve learned a lot from them.”

Kelley and Hubbard credit Moi with schooling

them in studio craft. “Recording new music

is so much easier for us now because we’ve

learned and developed so much, and Joey’s

been a big part of that,” Kelley says. “He has

all kinds of insights on how to tighten up songs

and what makes choruses and hooks work.”

He also coached the group on improving their

already exceptional vocal prowess. “Early in

the sessions, when I was having trouble singing

a line or hitting a note, he would tell me to

smile when I was singing, and it would just

come out,” Hubbard adds. “He’s also real big

on laying back on the beat and placing the

emphasis on words where it needs to be. If

there are two lines that go, “I feel you in my

heart/And I felt that from the start” — then

“heart” and “start” have to be sung the exact

same way. It’s all about symmetry. You don’t

think about things like that until someone like

Joey enlightens you.”

Now, with Florida Georgia Line riding high on

the charts and selling out amphitheaters on their

own star power, Hubbard and Kelley are in turn

becoming gurus to a new generation of budding

songwriters and performers. Their advice:

“Be you, try to find your own sound — and if

you’re trying to write what’s on the radio, you’re

already two steps behind,” Hubbard suggests.

Kelley adds, “Really challenge yourself to find

your own sound. And if you’re trying to write

better than Craig Wiseman, you’re going to

lose every time because he’s Craig Wiseman.

We just try to write like Florida Georgia Line

and it’s working for us. So be unique, chase

your dream, play big and play loud.”

PHOTO BY KRISTIN BARLOWE


SUMMER BLOCK PARTYJAKE OWEN

Broadcast Music, Inc. hosted its biggest #1 party ever

August 19, 2013, celebrating country star Jake Owen’s

hit “Anywhere With You,” written by BMI songwriter Jimmy

Yeary along with Ben Hayslip and David Lee Murphy. The

free Summer Block Party was held in BMI Nashville’s back

lot, with a gathering of more than 20,000 fans who traveled

from all over the country and began lining up around the

perimeter of the BMI building hours before the gates opened

at 6:30 p.m. Kicking off the event was Big Machine Label

Group's new trio the Cadillac Three. Owen, who started

his set with the #1 song, was joined onstage later by some

of country’s finest, including Florida Georgia Line, Dierks

Bentley, Thomas Rhett and Dee Jay Silver, and proceeded to

push the envelope on Nashville’s 11 p.m. sound curfew for

public events. Rock on, Jake.

JAKE OWEN ROCKS THE CROWD AT THE JAKE OWEN SUMMER BLOCK PARTY AT BMI.

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINETHOMAS RHETT

JAKE OWEN AND DIERKS BENTLEY

ALL PHOTOS BY RICK DIAMOND


AWARDS & SIGNINGS

THE DUCK DYNASTY ROBERTSON FAMILY SIGNS WITH BMI

The Robertsons of A&E’s Duck Dynasty and the Duck Commander Sporting Empire

recently signed with BMI in Nashville during the CMA Music Festival. Later this

year, Universal Records will release Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas.

Pictured are (back row, l-r): BMI’s Clay Bradley, John Luke Robertson, Sadie Robertson,

Si Robertson, Kay Robertson, Missy Robertson, Jep Robertson and BMI’s Jody Williams;

(front row, l-r): attorney Jess Rosen of Greenberg Traurig, Missy Robertson, Willie

Robertson, Jase Robertson and Jessica Robertson. RAY BENSON AND BMI’S MARK MASON AT THE AUSTIN-BERGSTROM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.

CARRIE UNDERWOOD WITH BMI’S ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF WRITER/PUBLISHER RELATIONS LESLIE ROBERTS.

Broadcast Music, Inc. recently honored country

superstar Carrie Underwood with multiple BMI

"Million-Air" Awards at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

BMI’s Associate Director of Writer/Publisher Relations

Leslie Roberts joined Underwood onstage to present the

certificates, honoring the prolific performances of songs

"Mama's Song" and "Good Girl," with one million

performances each, and "All-American Girl," with two

million to date. Underwood’s catalog now boasts more

than 13 million performances.

PHOTO BY CHRIS HOLLO

PHOTO BY ERIKA GOLDRING

PHOTO BY SANDY L. STEVENS, COURTESY OF CITY OF AUSTIN AVIATION


GEORGE STRAIT’S GO-TO SONGWRITER ON HIS BMI ICON DESIGNATION


Dean Dillon lives like a country song

sounds. He always has. Have a talk

with the legendary songwriter, and you’ll

understand just how this came to be his

line of work. He talks slow, low and easy --

keeping the pace measured and deliberate,

never breaking into so much as a canter. Of

course, that’s not the case at his ranch in

Gunnison, Colorado, where Dillon, 58, rides

horses all summer and writes songs furiously

all winter. His life’s work — which includes

crafting hit song after hit song for George

Strait, in addition to “everybody else and his

brother” (for example, George Jones, Kenny

Chesney, Lee Ann Womack and Toby Keith)

— is being honored at the 61st annual BMI

Country Awards, where Dillon will receive the

designation of BMI Icon.

Dillon got news of the award from BMI

President Del Bryant -- a friend and supporter

of Dillon’s for close to 40 years. Says Dillon,

“Del called me from New York and told me

about it. ’Course I started crying, ’cause you’ve

got to understand: songwriting has been my

life. It embodies who I am and what I am …

My relationship with BMI has been, for lack of

a better word, amazing. The way that BMI has

taken care of us — the songwriters’ community

— they help us out in good times, and they help

us out in bad times... They’re in your corner. If

you’re a songwriter, you’ve got a friend.”

Dillon’s life has been the stuff of country songs —

hard living, hard-earned, bootstrapping, boot-

wearing. He grew up poor in East Tennessee,

and just out of high school, hitchhiked to

Nashville in 1973. “I weighed 135 lbs. soaking

wet; I was 18 years old, but I knew Nashville

was where it was at, and I wanted to be a part

of it,” says Dillon.

Dillon wanted to be a part of it, sure, but he

also stood apart. “Back in those days, if you

had a great song, you really wouldn’t pitch it to

an unknown,” explains Dillon. “You wanted a

Haggard, or a Jones or a Cash or somebody …

I was just always a rebel, and I didn’t pay much

attention to that. I just wanted to find someone

who I would enjoy listening to sing my songs.”

That someone turned out to be Strait, who

was first presented to Dillon in 1979 as an

unknown, a “young gunslinger from Texas.”

SONGWRITING HAS BEEN MY

LIFE. IT EMBODIES WHO I AM AND WHAT I AM…

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH BMI HAS

BEEN, FOR LACK OF A BETTER

WORD, AMAZING. THE WAY THAT

BMI HAS TAKEN CARE OF US –

THE SONGWRITERS’ COMMUNITY – THEY HELP US OUT IN GOOD

TIMES, AND THEY HELP US OUT IN BAD TIMES…

THEY’RE IN YOUR CORNER. IF YOU’RE

A SONGWRITER, YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND.

In the end, his debut, Strait Country, included

six of Dillon’s songs.

“After that, every time Strait went to the studio

he never failed to call me,” says Dillon. “He

never forgot me. He never forgot that I went out

on a limb and pitched my stuff to him.”

When asked if he cares to name a song or two

that he’s most proud of, Dillon doesn’t hesitate

long. “The Chair,” a song he co-wrote with

Hank Cochran, tops his list, and for good

reason. It’s a swaggering, slow-moving, sweet

song that turned out to be an instant classic for

Strait in 1985. Another of his favorites is “A

Lot of Things Different,” co-written with Bill

Anderson and recorded by Kenny Chesney in

2002, after Dillon got sober.

That was also a time during which Dillon had

to learn, over a period of several years, how to

write songs without alcohol as a collaborator.

“It wasn’t an easy process,” he says, “You

know, like the song says: I would have done a

lot of things different, but it is what it is, and it

happened the way it happened. You know, it’s

part of my legacy. It’s just part of who I am.”

Other collaborators of Dillon’s included

legendary late songwriters Frank Dycus and

Hank Cochran, who he paired with time and

again during the ’70s and ’80s and who he

credits with helping take his songwriting to a

“whole other level.”

As for the next crop of aspiring country

writers: “The best advice I can give is to find

someone who’s been in this business awhile, a

songwriter that’s been around the block,” says

Dillon. “Hook up and learn. I always found

myself paired up with people older than me —

Frank Dycus, Hank Cochran. Both of those

guys taught me so much about songwriting...

The young songwriters today write in such

a box. That’s all well and good, because you

write what you know, but at some point you’re

gonna have to write what you don’t know.

Everybody knows about trucks, and everybody

knows about beer, and everybody knows about

dating, but you’ve gotta open your mind. That’s

gonna separate the men from the boys -- when

you write what you don’t know, and you write

something great.”

BY ELLEN MALLERNEE BARNES


BIG MACHINE LABEL GROUP’S SCOTT BORCHETTA, CO-WRITERS BRETT AND BRAD WARREN, TIM MCGRAW, SONY ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING’S TROY TOMLINSON, KEITH URBAN, BMI’S JODY WILLIAMS, CO-WRITER MARK IRWIN AND PRODUCER BYRON GALLIMORE ONSTAGE AT THE CELEBRATION FOR “HIGHWAY DON’T CARE.”

BMI’S JODY WILLIAMS, CO-WRITER DAVID HODGES, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, CO-WRITER HILLARY LINDSEY AND EMI’S JOSH VAN VALKENBURG ONSTAGE AT THE CELEBRATION FOR “SEE YOU AGAIN.”

BMI CELEBRATES THE NO. 1 SONG “WAGON WHEEL.” OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW POSES WITH WSM MICROPHONES ON THE HISTORIC RYMAN STAGE ON THE EVE OF THEIR GRAND OLE OPRY INDUCTION.

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PICTURED AT THE “TORNADO” NO. 1 PARTY ON MONDAY, MAY 6, ARE BACK ROW: LITTLE BIG TOWN AND FRONT ROW: CO-WRITERS DELTA MAID AND NATALIE HEMBY.

BRETT WARREN TAKES HIS TURN SINGING A VERSE OF “LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING” ALONGSIDE HIS CO-WRITERS AND THE SONG’S PRODUCER, WITH THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE AS A SCENIC BACKDROP.

MIRANDA LAMBERT GRACIOUSLY THANKS WRITERS KACEY MUSGRAVES, SHANE MCANALLY AND BRANDY CLARK FOR LETTING HER RECORD “MAMA’S BROKEN HEART.”

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