November 2010 – Page 5 – Nashville Music Guide

Craig Moritz: Canadian Charisma for Music Row and Radio

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From Hank Snow, “The Singing Ranger,”in the 1950s, to Anne Murray in the 1970s and 1980s and Shania Twain in the 1990s – to name a few – the Great White North has had a massive impact on Music Row and country radio. Now Craig Moritz, an exciting new artist who hails from remote towns in Western Canada with names like Medicine Hat and Fort McMurray, is working with top Row producers and songwriters to stake his own musical claim in Music City. […]

Inside Track on Music Row- November 2010

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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, called on his musical friends to aid the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation’s Wanna
Play Fund with a CD project titled I WANNA PLAY!: An Album To Put Musical Instruments Into The Hands Of Every Child In America. Joining Huckabee are Aaron Tippin, and
producer James Stroud. The […]

Multi-Tasking Example – Governor and Author Phil Bredesen

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Nearly all working musicians and songwriters have a day job. Whether it’s waiting tables or framing houses, the vast majority of Music City’s pickers or tunesmiths make most of their living doing something other than music. […]

Now and Then: A Conversation with Smokey Robinson

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Some people would ask, after 50 years in the music business, why not just take it easy? Well, ask that of legendary R&B artist Smokey Robinson and he’ll tell you why he’s still recording and performing – it’s because he’s been given the chance to live his wildest, most impossible dream. […]

Legends & Veterans: November 2010

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It Only Hurts When I’m Reading: Eilleen’s early life was marked by hardship, and tragedy almost forestalled her music career. But after raising her siblings and honing her craft, she changed her name to Shania, which means “on my way” … and she was. Sounds like a good book, eh? Well, her publisher sure thinks so. Shania Twain’s autobiography will be released next spring. “There have been moments in my life I was concerned by the reality that tomorrow would never come,… […]