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What A Song Can Do
''What a Song Can Do'' is the ninth studio album by American country music trio Lady A. It was released on October 22, 2021, through Big Machine Records. The album includes the single " Like a Lady" and thirteen other tracks. It is also the first new album released under the name Lady A and second after the deluxe edition of ''Ocean'' in 2020. Background Prior to the album's release, the band issued the extended play '' What a Song Can Do (Chapter One)'', containing tracks from the album. This extended play contains seven songs, and the album contains seven more. Thirteen of the project's fourteen songs were co-written by at least one member of the band; Dave Haywood wrote "Workin' on This Love" by himself and even sings lead vocals on it, making this the first and so far only album to feature a solo from him. The track "Friends Don't Let Friends" features guest vocals from Carly Pearce, Thomas Rhett, and Darius Rucker. Dann Huff is the album's producer. Critical reception Stephe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady A
Lady A, known until 2020 as Lady Antebellum, is an American country music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2006. The group is composed of Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals), Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals, guitar), and Dave Haywood (lead and background vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin). Scott is the daughter of country music singer Linda Davis, and Kelley is the brother of pop singer Josh Kelley. The band abbreviated the name to "Lady A" in June 2020 during the George Floyd protests in an attempt to blunt the name's associations with Slavery in the United States, slavery and the Antebellum South, inadvertently causing a dispute with Black blues and gospel singer Anita White, who had been using the name Lady A for more than 20 years. The group made its debut in 2007 as guest vocalists on Jim Brickman's single "Never Alone (Jim Brickman song), Never Alone", before signing to Capitol Records Nashville, Capitol Nashville. Lady A has released six alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillary Scott
Hillary Dawn Scott-Tyrrell (born April 1, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the co-lead vocalist of the country music group Lady A. She is signed to Big Machine Records. In collaboration with her family, Scott released the gospel album '' Love Remains'' in 2016 as a solo artist. The album reached number 7 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Early life Scott was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to country music artist Linda Davis and Lang Scott, a musician and entrepreneur. She has a younger sister named Rylee Jean, who was born in 2000. She is of Scottish and Native American descent. Scott was homeschooled on the road for kindergarten. She attended elementary school and high school at Donelson Christian Academy where she graduated in 2004. She lived with her grandparents during the time her parents were touring for her mother's musical career. After joining her mom on stage for a Christmas show, she was convinced to pursue a music career. Scott decided at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Lee Olsen
Steven Lee Olsen (born November 25, 1985) is a Canadian country music artist and songwriter. He is best known for his singles "Raised by a Good Time" and "Outta Yours", as well as for co-writing the Grammy-nominated single "Blue Ain't Your Color" by Keith Urban. Olsen has also written songs for singers such as Craig Morgan (singer), Craig Morgan, Garth Brooks, Dallas Smith, Rascal Flatts, The Judds, Kip Moore, Brett Kissel, and Kevin Borg. Career He released his debut single "Now" in 2009, which was included on his 2009 debut album ''Introducing Steven Lee Olsen'', released on RGK Records, . He followed his debut single with the release of another single "Make Hay While the Sun Shines". Olsen toured in the 2009 CMT (Canada), CMT on Tour Live show, along with Jason Blaine, Tara Oram and The Higgins. In April 2014, Olsen signed with Sony Music Nashville, Columbia Nashville. Later that year, he released his major-label debut single, "Raised by a Good Time", which was certified Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Cohen (keyboardist)
David Ross Cohen is a Canadian-born musician and producer based out of Nashville, Tennessee. Cohen is a keyboardist who has recorded with Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock, Steven Tyler, and Reba McEntire. Throughout his career, he has accumulated several awards including Academy of Country Music Keyboard Player of the Year in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023 and ''MusicRow'' All-Star Keyboards Player in 2018 and 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Also making a name for himself as a producer, Cohen has produced 87,456 songs for the likes of Jake Owen, Dallas Smith, Chris Lane, Morgan Wallen, and Hardy. Early life and career Cohen was born August 30, 1985, in Toronto, Ontario, and moved to Calgary, Alberta at age 5. It was when he moved to Calgary that he began classical piano lessons. He attended Henry Wise Wood Senior High School in Calgary and later attended Humber College in Toronto where he focused on jazz performance, specifically jazz piano. Cohen began his career in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Gorley
Ashley Gorley (born April 29, 1977) is an American songwriter, publisher, and producer from Danville, Kentucky, who is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Gorley has written 81 number 1 songs and has over 400 songs recorded by artists including Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Bon Jovi, Nate Smith, Thomas Rhett, Jason Derulo, Kelsea Ballerini, Morgan Wallen and Dan + Shay. Biography Gorley was born in Danville, Kentucky, the son of Glenn and Sandra Gorley (''née'' Alexander). Gorley graduated Belmont University in 1999 with a Music Business degree. He has continuously given back to the university through teaching music publishing (from 2006 to 2008), speaking at seminars, and mentoring current students. In 2022, Gorley signed a global publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing & Domain Capital Group. Outside of songwriting, Gorley has fought for songwriter rights by meeting with The Library of Congress and promoting the Music Mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Garcia (musician)
David Arthur Garcia (born January 18, 1983) is an American record producer and songwriter. He has received four Grammy Awards, and has won nine GMA Dove Awards, for his songwriting and record production. He was honored with the ASCAP Christian songwriter on the year award, in 2015. He co-wrote and produced the smash hit single " Meant to Be" with Bebe Rexha featuring Florida Georgia Line, and co-produced " Let You Down" by NF. Early and personal life David Arthur Garcia was born in 1983, in Long Island, New York. He is married to Krystal Garcia (''née'', Ogden). Music career His music production songwriting career commenced around 2008, where he gained GMA Dove Awards for his music production in 2011 for ''Outta Space Love'', 2013 for ''Eye on It'', and 2014 for '' Overcomer'', while obtaining an award for composing in 2013 for '' A Messenger''. Garcia was awarded two Grammy Award at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, in the categories of Best Contemporary Christian Music Song, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Wadge
Amy Victoria Wadge (born 22 December 1975) is an English singer and songwriter. She has co-written tracks with Ed Sheeran, including " Thinking Out Loud" for which she won the 2016 Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Early life Wadge was born and brought up in Backwell, a small village just outside Bristol, England. Her father's passion for music influenced her enormously, and on the subject of her paternal influences she has said that she "grew up listening to early Elton John, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. That was the stuff I cut my teeth on and now I listen to everything you can possibly imagine from hip hop to country". While still at school, aged 14, Wadge signed her first record deal. She released her first single at the age of 16. Career Songwriting Apart from writing songs for herself, Wadge has been active in collaborating with new performers in Britain, including Ed Sheeran. The two collaborated on a number of songs, and Sheeran titled his self-released 2010 EP '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Hemby
Natalie Nicole Hemby Wrucke (born March 24, 1977) is an American country music songwriter and singer. She has written songs for Lee Ann Womack, Eli Young Band, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Sunny Sweeney, Little Big Town, Jon Pardi, Kacey Musgraves, Kelly Clarkson, Lauren Daigle, and Lady Gaga. In 2019, she joined the quartet The Highwomen alongside Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires and Maren Morris. Early life Hemby was born in Bloomington, Illinois. She is the daughter of Nashville studio guitarist Tom Hemby and Deanna Hemby. Career Songwriting Hemby has accumulated eight No. 1 ''Billboard'' singles during her career. Hemby's cuts include " White Liar" and " Only Prettier" by Miranda Lambert, " Pontoon" and "Tornado" by Little Big Town, " Drinks After Work" by Toby Keith and "Automatic" by Miranda Lambert. She is currently a writer at Universal Music Group Nashville (UMPG), and has formerly been affiliated with EMI Publishing and Carnival Music. Solo albums On January 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Frasure
Jesse Vernon Frasure (born September 18, 1981), also known as DJ Telemitry, is an American music publisher, record producer, songwriter, and DJ. He has written 22 number one songs and has cuts with various artists including Chris Stapleton, Marshmello, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, Thomas Rhett, Leon Bridges, Kane Brown, Jelly Roll, Blake Shelton, Cole Swindell, Meghan Trainor, Florida Georgia Line and more. Frasure won BMI's Country Songwriter Of The Year Award in 2018 and 2021. He has been Grammy nominated twice and was nominated as ACM's Songwriter Of The Year in 2022. He has also received six consecutive CMA Triple Play Awards for having written three number one radio songs in a 12-month period. Biography A Detroit native, Frasure (DJ Telemitry), now lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Stevie Frasure. Frasure began his music career working at Major Bob Music in Nashville, eventually rising to VP of A&R and also signing a publishing and production deal wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Barnes
David Mckee Barnes (born June 20, 1978) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released eight studio albums, including two Christmas albums. His most recent full-length album, ''Featherbrained Wealth Motel'', was released in 2023. Early life The eldest of three children, Barnes was born in South Carolina in 1978, the son of a pastor who relocated his family to Kosciusko, Mississippi when Barnes was six years old. The Barnes family then moved to Knoxville, Tennessee the summer during his junior year of high school, where he graduated from Farragut High School in 1996. Barnes went to college at Middle Tennessee State University and graduated with a degree in Recording Industry Management. While there, he began playing guitar and writing songs for fun. He was initially only interested in writing material for other performers but was later encouraged by his peers to perform his works himself. Barnes took their advice and began performing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Veltz
Laura Jeanne Veltz is an American songwriter and musician. She previously was the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of family pop-rock group Cecilia. She was nominated for the first ever Grammy Award for Songwriter of the Year at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards for her work on releases by Maren Morris, Demi Lovato and Ingrid Andress. Early life and career Laura Veltz started her music career as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of her family pop-rock group Cecilia in 1996 to 2006. After the group split up, in 2008, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue her career as a songwriter, lured by Kye Fleming and Mark D. Sanders. She started her songwriting career in Nashville by writing with country music group Edens Edge on their debut self-titled album. In 2020, Veltz was nominated for her first Grammy Award The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Hurd
Ryan James Hurd (born November 2, 1986) is an American country music singer and songwriter. In addition to writing number one singles for Blake Shelton, Lady A, and Luke Bryan, Hurd has recorded for RCA Records Nashville. Career Hurd was born in Chicago and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan before moving to Nashville. He met his future wife Maren Morris while writing the ballad “Last Turn Home” for Tim McGraw. In 2014, Hurd co-wrote the song " Intoxicated" with the band Hinder, the song was released as the third single from their 2015 album '' When the Smoke Clears'' and debuted #8 on the US Active Rock Chart. In 2015, he wrote " Lonely Tonight", a No 1 Country Airplay single for Blake Shelton and Ashley Monroe. Hurd signed with Sony Music Nashville in 2017 to release a forthcoming debut album. His first single from his self-titled EP, “We Do Us” has received over 2 million streams on Spotify. He was featured on Rolling Stone Country's "Artists You Need to Know" li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
