songwriting

Randy Montana is kicking off the New Year in a big way, landing in Southern Living magazine's annual 'Best of the South' issue as one of the magazine's top five Southern artists to watch in 2011. The singer-songwriter also has a brand new single and video, '1000 Faces,' out this week and is releasing a special three-song EP...

Kevin Griffin of pop-rock band Better Than Ezra, whose hits include 'Good' and 'Desperately Wanting,' has been making several country connections recently. Whether it be as an influence, on the songwriting front (he penned Sugarland's No...

What do you get when you put Randy Houser and Toby Keith together? Creative freedom. Randy was signed to Universal Records South, before the label merged with Toby Keith's Show Dog Records last December. Now on Show Dog-Universal Records, Randy released his label-debut 'They Call Me Cadillac' in September, which took on a different process with the unique label head...

Keith Urban's wife, actress Nicole Kidman, has certainly influenced the songs her husband has written and chosen over the past few years, which have been featured on albums 'Defying Gravity,' and 'Love, Pain and the Whole Crazy Thing.' He says her influence is also felt on his new album, 'Get Closer,' but just not in the same way...

Joey+Rory's Rory Feek has been writing songs for a long time, so he certainly knows from experience that, for whatever reason, sometimes certain tunes just don't click with particular artists. Take, for example, his recent CMA-nominated hit for Easton Corbin, 'A Little More Country Than That...