Phillip Jordan Powell is a Nashville-based music manager and record producer.

Personal life

Powell was born in

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and attended

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where he was awarded a

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. He moved to

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in 2006. On May 22, 2012, he married singer-songwriter and

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member

Angaleena Presley Angaleena Loletta McCoy Presley (born September 1, 1976) is an American country music singer-songwriter. She is a member of the country trio Pistol Annies, which was formed in 2011 with Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe, and has released two s ...

, for whom he had served as

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, in a small ceremony in Jackson Hole, WY. On January 22, 2019, Powell and Presley welcomed their first child together, a daughter named Phoenix Joeleena Jean Powell. Presley also has a son named Jed, born in 2006, from a previous relationship.

Management

Powell began his career as a tour manager while still in college at Texas A&M. While living in Texas, he worked for several artists including Roger Creager, Chris Wall, Phil Pritchett and

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. In 2005, he began tour managing RCA recording artist and country star

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. Powell remained with Lambert until his departure in late 2012, upon which time he acted as personal manager for clients such as

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and

. Since that time, he has also served as tour manager for a variety of acts such as Jewel,

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, and

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Record production

While tour managing, Powell also began producing demo sessions in Nashville for then relatively unknown artists like

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, Charlie Worsham and Chelsea Lankes. After meeting Nashville recording artist Will Hoge, Powell produced a session which included the song “Another Song Nobody Will Hear” written by Hoge and Dylan Altman. The song was released by Hoge in January, 2013 as a duet with Texas mainstay

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. It reached #1 on the Texas Regional Radio Report. Powell co-produced Angaleena Presley’s 2014 solo debut album “

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” which ''

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'' gave “five stars" and ''

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'' said in a glowing review "Presley -- and her husband, Jordan Powell, who served as producer -- fill the album with acoustic playing, light percussion and pretty male-female harmonies. There's not much to suggest this music was made in the past 30 years.” It includes guest appearances by

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and

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and featured a number of Nashville “A-list” players such as

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and

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. The record reached #29 on Billboard's US Top Country Albums chart and #14 on Billboard's US Top Heatseekers Albums. '' ''

References

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