Below you will find a Showcase of our Talented Artists:
When listening the songs on this site:
Wil Worth
My names Wil and like some song writers I really look good, from far away,
I married a saint, I have a dislocated wallet brought on by some serious brokness,
I have patches on my heart, sometimes I feel like a
Canary in a coal mine and the bottoms where I call home, and that's only the half of it.
So it looks like I have a lot to draw on.
Despite these deficiencies I work well with others.
If you like what you hear give me a holler.
Thanks for listening.
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Jerry Holthouse
Jerry Holthouse is the Director of Advertising & Marketing for Nashville.com. In addition, he is an accomplished Nashville songwriter and musician with recordings by John Conlee, Sean Hogan, Justin Wilson, Tom Brathon, Rustie Blue and Tim Tesch.
Prior to joining Nashville.com, Jerry was the Art Director for Country Weekly Magazine and Country Music Magazine. He is also an avid outdoorsman who loves to hunt and fish throughout Tennessee.
Kristin Lagasse
www.myspace.com/kristinlagasse
Kristin Lagasse is a 27 year old singer-songwriter from Maine. She has traveled across the US and Canada, performing in hundreds of cafes, bars, farmers markets, and restaurants and festivals.
Her debut album “For Those Who Still Believe In Unicorns” was released independently in 2007 and can be found online, as well in select stores and cafes in the US. Her second album titled "Gypsy Girl" and will be available May 1st 2010.
Kristin has lived for extended periods of time in Boston, San Francisco, and Toronto, and will always continue to spread her message mile by mile, developing a steady following with her strong, vibrant voice and honest, unique songwriting.
Writer: Dave LaGrande
Vocals: Johnny Bulford; Piano: Dave LaGrande
Dave LaGrande is a professional musician based in the Nashville area. Adept in a variety of genres and styles from classical to jazz to country, Dave has performed all over the United States, Hawaii and the Caribbean.
Over the years while living and working throughout his home state of Florida, Dave had the opportunity to work with a variety of independent artists and open for several national artists.
Shortly after moving to Nashville in 2007, Dave was invited to perform with Grand Ole Opry legend Mel McDaniel (Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On) and toured with Mel briefly before accepting the keyboardist position with Curb recording artist, Heidi Newfield in 2008.
You can visit Heidi at www.heidinewfield.com.
In 2008, Dave appeared with Heidi on her US tour performing in 50+ cities and venues including the Ryman Auditorium and Grand Ole Opry stages in Nashville, TN, and will continue touring with her in 2009 as she promotes her album "What Am I Waiting For".
Recent TV appearances with Heidi include The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and The 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards show.
Angie Marr
My name is Angie Marr and I am a singer/songwriter from Brownsville, Texas. I have been singing since I was 6 and I have been writing poems and songs since I was 12. I learned to play the piano and guitar to help me become a better singer and songwriter.
My passion is music and country music has touched my heart like no other genre of music has been able to.
I have chosen country music becasue it is the closest to my heart and my way of life, I enjoy the purity and honesty of it.
I draw inspiration from God, love, family, heartbreak, happiness, sadness, and everyday life in general.
I hope to one day reach out to other people through my music and I want people to be able to relate to the words in my songs.
*Angie Marr*
Hayseed Dixie
Then, as fate would have it, one crisp fall afternoon, a stranger passed through the holler. Well, he almost made it through.
Unfortunately for him, but fortunately for appreciators of great music worldwide, the stranger crashed his car into a stately old oak tree at Devil's Elbow Curve.
Sadly, the stranger expired, but his legacy lives on. For under the back seat of his car, the boys found some old black vinyl records as they went through his belongings looking for identification.
All they had to listen to them on was an old Edison Victrola that only played at 78 R.P.M., but the boys all agreed it was some mighty fine country music.
So, in memory of the stranger who had perished the boys set about learning these songs . . . "
The records in the car, of course, were by the band AC/DC. And the boys recorded an album of the songs in their own mountain / bluegrass style - with fiddle, mandolin, banjo and such
Ernie Simms
A tribute to my friend Ernie,
this song was written about Ernie by a friend who was at his funeral.
Ernie Simms started dabbling in his music career at the tender age of 8 years old. With his Sears drums, he and his friends began their early stages of their music careers... Erinie has since written over 500 songs.
Having served in the Army, he was in Vietnam and Korea. During his time in the military, he became a radio host (which lasted for 15 years).
Ernie has a great passion for our homeless vets, in which he became involved with in 1984. He was honored in Kentucky when named a Colonel of the state.
For the past 4 years, Ernie and his wife and partner Debbie, have lived in Nashville. Since this time, Ernie was named the entertainment Chairman for ‘Stand Down’, which helps homeless vets for clothing, jobs, housing etc. He hopes to someday have a US Vets 3 day event for all veterans to bring familys and friends together along with the great entertainment from the best pickers in the world here in Nashville. Ernie hosted the Nashville Onstage TV show for many years.
Brandon Melton
Brandon began to play guitar at age 14 and by age 16 was an accomplished singer, songwriter and guitar player. It was at age 15 that Brandon would pen his signature song, “If I Could Have You”, also affectionately named the “Grandma” song due to the fact that Brandon wrote the tune for his beloved grandmother that passed away when Brandon was a child.
At only 18 years of age and only four years after he began playing, writing, and singing, Brandon scored with an accomplishment that although didn’t launch him right away, served to let the people of Nashville, TN and everyone in the surrounding musical community, that Brandon Melton had arrived. In 2006’s Nashville Star competition Brandon placed in the top 50 over 3,000 contestants. It would be only a year or so after that Brandon would go on to win his hometown version of American Idol’s competition called Paris Idol.
Words and Music by:
Brandon Melton
Most everything that I wanted, I got it, but when it comes to loving you that's something I could not have.
Now every night I pray to god, telling him that I'd give it all back if I could have you.
I was only three when it happened. You were taken out of this world without me in your arms. I was your best friend.
And you were mine.
Bridges Out Of Eden (Break Me Down) --
(c) 2009 guitarguymusic - All Rights Reserved
Chris "Mandolin Jack" Tulloch
http://www.myspace.com/mandolinjack
Not, as you might expect, an album of hard rocking trucking songs from a Good Ol’ Boy In A Stetson In The Deep South, but an album of acoustic-ish rural country from deepest London. Having started out in the 1970s in various bands, given up music for a while to work, very successfully, in film, Chris Tulloch aka Mandolin Jack is now returning to his first love and wryly summing up his musical life thus: ‘lots of fans and adulation / but not much remuneration.../ we pay our dues in strange venues / the agent never checks us / we don’t rock like ZZ Top / and we don’t come from Texas’ (Texas). Words that will strike a chord with many a musician, and indeed many of the words elsewhere will strike similar chords with listeners.
It may be a cliché, but it is true; John and Michelle Thompson have been making beautiful music together for over twenty years. Though the cast of supporting players in their band, The Wayside, has changed many times, their original vision, to craft songs that speak hope and truth to a hurting world with musical authenticity and spiritual passion has remained strong. It has taken them to bars, clubs, theaters, colleges, festivals and churches as they endeavor to blend the best elements of American country, rock and roll and alternative musical styles with lyrics that were “salty and sweet; darkness and light,” according to one of their mentors and heroes. Hear them now at www.TheWaysideStore.com or find them on iTunes, Amazon.com or wherever digital music is sold.
Scott Marshall
myspace.com/robertscottmarshall
My dad started me off in music at age 7 having me play his stand up bass along with my two brothers.
For me it really was a stand up bass ( I had to stand up on the bed to play it! ) I`ve been playing in bands , everything from polkas to southern rock ever since.
I didn`t start writing until I got stuck working an afternoon shift and couldn`t do the band thing anymore. Which goes to show you that there often is a silver lining to what may look like a bad situation.
I live in N.E. Ohio , but I do come to Nashville occasionally.
And I`m always looking for cowriters.
Dorothy Jane Jenkins and Wade Austin Reed
Dorothy Jane grew up in the 80's on a tobacco farm in the hills of northeastern Kentucky.
Sharing a four room farm house with Her mother, father, brother and two sisters.
A wood stove and no running water, made music a very important part of Her life. It was Her get
away from life and all its hardships. So music is not just something she does in hope to make it
big, but it lives in her, And its really easy to hear the years and where she came from in her voice.
She now enjoys singing in local clubs, bars, church's and has never said no to charity shows
with her band Dorothy Jane Undecided and other local bands doing front, back up and studio work.
She still enjoys writing, helping others writers and musicians.
And thats where Wade Austin comes in to Her life. Now as you will hear. He also has that same deep rooted love for music. He is the only guitar player in the songs posted here. And His soft southern chicken picking style of acoustic guitar keeps you wondering why you have never herd him before now!
But the most impressive thing of all he is self taught. He has an unbelievable ear and an natural
understanding of scale. Building and filling songs, know different then his hands carving the detailed trim, doors and archways of the Victorian homes he restores. He is a master carpenter and poet.
Love Always.. Dorothy Jane & Wade Austin
To contact Us call or write, Our manager, Carl at (740) 858-4901 or jenkins3030@msn.com
Excellent guitar playing
Norman Blake - Nashville Blues
Classical Gas by Tommy Emmanuel
Acoustic Blues Jam In E With Flatpick-
Terry Robb - Acoustic Blues Master 1
11 yo Cole plays a C Blues Jam
Norman Blake / Church Steet Blues
Deep River Blues (Acoustic Blues)
"Ragtime Blues" acoustic guitar solo
Trace Bundy's Dueling Ninjas -
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