Sea Gayle Music is an independent music publishing company based in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

in the United States. It was formed in 1999 by songwriter Chris DuBois, songwriter/producer Frank Rogers, and songwriter/artist

Brad Paisley Brad Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His first success came in 1997 as the writer of David Kersh's "Another You (David Kersh song), Another You". After this, he signed with ...

.Miner, Maurice
"Full Force Gayle"
''ASCAP Playback Magazine'', June 2004. Retrieved on 2010-6-11. In 2010 and 2011, Sea Gayle Music was named ASCAP Country Publisher of the Year. This was the first time since 1982 that an independent music publishing company has won this award.

Current writers

* Barrett Baber * Ian Christian * Adam Craig * Chris DuBois * Claire Ernst * Jordan Fletcher * Jordan Gray * Lynn Hutton *Braden Jamison *Zach Kale *Wolf Mahler *Cam Newby *

*Madison Parks * Jenna Paulette *Avery Roberson * Maggie Rose * Brett Sheroky *Josh Weathers

Past writers

* Smith Ahnquist * Brent Anderson * Ingrid Andress * Wade Bowen * Jim Brown * Jordan Brooker * Richie Brown * Byron "Mr. Talkbox" Chambers *

Brandy Clark Brandy Lynn Clark (born October 9, 1975) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Her songs have been recorded by Sheryl Crow, Miranda Lambert, The Band Perry, Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, Billy Currington, Darius Rucker, and Kacey Mu ...

* Larry Cordle * Clint Daniels *

Radney Foster Radney Muckleroy Foster (born July 20, 1959) is an American country music singer-songwriter, musician and music producer. Initially a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Foster made his recording debut as part of the Foster & Lloyd duo, recordi ...

* Jeb Gipson *

Liz Hengber Liz Hengber (born August 22, 1959) is an American songwriter and musician based in Nashville, Tennessee. Hengber was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from New Milford High School in New Milford, New Jersey in 1977. She graduated from th ...

* Carolyn Dawn Johnson * Jay Knowles * Clint Lagerberg * Leaving Austin * Jesse Lee *

Kelley Lovelace John Kelley Lovelace is an American songwriter known mainly for his work with country artist Brad Paisley. He has written several of Paisley's singles, including the number 1 hits " He Didn't Have to Be" (Paisley's first number 1), " The World" ...

Tim Menzies Timothy Ray Menzies (born August 25, 1959), sometimes known as Tim Mensy, is an American country music artist. Initially, he was a member of the band Bandana, in which he charted several singles on the Hot Country Songs charts in the 1980s. After ...

* Jaden Michaels * Lee Thomas Miller * Clay Mills * Jake Mitchell * Jerrod Niemann * Tim Owens * Bobby Pinson * Frank Rogers * Brent Rupard * Mike Ryan * Don Sampson * Don Schlitz * Steve Schnur * Jordyn Shellhart * Bryan Simpson * CJ Solar *

Chris Stapleton Christopher Alvin Stapleton (born April 15, 1978) is an American country singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born in Kentucky, Stapleton moved to Nashville in 1996 to study for an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University, but dropped out to pur ...

* Dave Turnbull *

Trent Willmon Trent Willmon (born March 6, 1973) is an American country music artist, songwriter, and producer. Active since 1998 as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, Willmon was signed to Columbia Records in 2004. He released two albums for the label (2 ...

* Baylor Wilson

Charting singles

Number one songs

Other hits

Awards

* 2000

MusicRow ''MusicRow'' is a Nashville music industry trade publication. The publication delivers online content in addition to six annual print magazines including its InCharge, Artist Roster and Publisher directories. MusicRow Enterprises is also home t ...

Song of the Year – "He Didn’t Have To Be" by Brad Paisley * 2004

Grammy Award for Best Country Song The Grammy Award for Best Country Song (sometimes known as the Country Songwriter's Award) has been awarded since 1965. The award is given to the songwriter(s) of the song, not to the artist, unless the artist is also the songwriter. There have ...

– "It's Five O’Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett * 2004

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadc ...

Country Song of the Year - "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett * 2008

Song of the Year – “Letter To Me” by Brad Paisley * 2008

Academy of Country Music The Academy of Country Music (ACM) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Among the founders were Eddie Miller (songwriter), Eddie Miller, Tommy Wiggins, and Mickey and Chris ...

Song of the Year – "In Color" by Jamey Johnson * 2009

Country Music Association The Country Music Association (CMA) is an American trade association with the stated aim of promoting and developing country music throughout the world. Founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, it originally consisted of 233 members and was the f ...

Song of the Year – "In Color" by Jamey Johnson * 2009

Song of the Year – "In Color" by Jamey Johnson * 2009 NSAI Country Song of the Year – "Waitin' On A Woman" by Brad Paisley * 2010

Country Publisher of the Year * 2011

Country Publisher of the Year

References

{{Reflist Music publishing companies of the United States Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee Publishing companies established in 1999 1999 establishments in Tennessee Music of Nashville, Tennessee