Rhett Akins is the 31-time #1 songwriter, who has racked up 40 BMI awards for his outstanding contributions to the country music industry. He has written songs for country legends from Lee Brice, LoCash and Luke Bryan, to Brooks & Dunn, Rodney Adkins and Dustin Lynch.

Randy was born in Albany, N.Y., and moved with his family to Nashville in 1988 when Billy signed a record deal with Warner Bros. He started playing guitar at age 10, writing songs at age 16 and performed his first song publicly at one of his father's writers' nights at age 17.

Jessi Alexander never intended to move to Nashville to become a songwriter -- she simply wanted to make a living in the music business anyway she could. The West Tennessee native vividly remembers being enthralled by music as a young girl. Long before she had hits by Blake Shelton, Lee Brice and ...

John Driskell Hopkins is best known for his role as a founding member, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for the Grammy Award-winning group Zac Brown Band.

Mitch Rossell, originally from the hills of East Tennessee, is blazing a trail through the world of country music. His prolific songwriting and unique artistry has garnered the unshakable support of music fans across all genres. He is presently touring the country with country legend, Garth Brooks.

Dave Turnbull is an acclaimed songwriter who scored his first Top 10 country hit in 2004 with Darryl Worley's "If Something Should Happen." That same year, Trace Adkins recorded the hauntingly beautiful ballad "Arlington," which ultimately became a Top 15 hit on the country charts. Since then, Tu...

The third of these exclusive Nashville Songwriter Rounds sees prominent music contributors Jessi Alexander, Rhett Akins and Randy Montana, come together and share the stories behind their smash hits songs - written by them, made famous by some of the biggest names in music.

The first of these exclusive Nashville Songwriter Rounds see prominent music contributors Cole Taylor, Ray Fulcher and Tyler Reeve, come together and share the stories behind their smash hits songs - written by them, made famous by some of the biggest names in music.

With his simple yet poignant way of capturing universal feelings, Cole Taylor has quickly become an in-demand country songwriter. Nine months after moving from Cuthbert, Georgia, to Music City, Taylor signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Nashville in November 2013. He had set ...

Ray Fulcher was born and raised in the small town of Harlem, Georgia and grew up on many of country music’s best songwriters and storytellers. Some of his biggest influences were Alan Jackson, Keith Whitley, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Church and George Strait. And now he's one of Nashville's biggest so...

In a career that has spanned fifteen years, country music hit-maker Tyler Reeve has gone through an array of life-altering moments in which the Alabama native was rocked by the intricacies of life and knew instinctively that it was time to change direction.

Labeled “one of country music’s hottest young acts”, Tucker Beathard aligns his homegrown sound with soulful lyrics.

Based in Nashville, this true American country singer has music in his veins, as the son of great songwriter Casey Beathard. Beathard's debut single 'Rock On' was released on Big...