CMA Songwriter Series featuring Chris Wallin, Rodney Clawson, Jonathan Singleton and Host Bob DiPiero!

Show Description

The Country Music Assocation Songwriters Series celebrates the CMA Awards Performances from 2008 CMA Award nominated songwriters. 

 Tonight's shows will feature:

CHRIS WALLIN

Chris has enjoyed active chart success and numerous cuts, most recently, was his #1 hit singles with Toby Keith “Love Me If You Can”, Kenny Chesney “Don’t Blink” and Montgomery Gentry’s "Something To Be Proud Of." He’s also had top five hits with “I’m Tryin’” by Trace Adkins, and “Speed” by Montgomery Gentry.  Other charted singles include “Your In My Head” (Brian McComas), "What Brothers Do” (Confederate Railroad), and “John J. Blanchard” (Anthony Smith), which were all top 40 hits. Artists who have cut Chris’s songs include Lorrie Morgan, Toby Keith, Keith Anderson, Anthony Smith, Montgomery Gentry, Sammy Kershaw, Tommy Shane Steiner, Trace Adkins, Michael Peterson, Jeffrey Steele, Confederate Railroad, Neal McCoy, Brian McComas, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Diamond Rio and many more.


RODNEY CLAWSON

Rodney Clawson is a farmer turned singer/songwriter originally from Gruver, Texas now spending his time in Nashville, TN.  Clawson has had some of the biggest stars in Country Music record his songs, including:  George Strait, Rascal Flatts, Faith Hill, Big & Rich, Bon Jovi, Gary Allan, Jason Aldean, Neil McCoy, Phil Vassar, to name just a few.  A few of Clawson’s hits include the #1 hits:  "I Saw God Today" by George Strait, "Lost In This Moment" by Big & Rich, and "Why" by Jason Aldean.  Other hits include "Amarillo Sky" and "Johnny Cash" by Jason Aldean, "Sunshine and Summertime" by Faith Hill, "Sweet Southern Comfort" by Buddy Jewell, and many more.  Clawson’s hit “I Saw God Today” is a 2008 CMA Award nominated song for Song Of The Year.

JONATHAN SINGLETON

Since signing his breakthrough publishing and production deal two years ago with Crosstown Songs Nashville, multi-talented singer/songwriter Jonathan Singleton has been caught up in a creative whirlwind that’s left him little time to be chilling at the airport “Watching Airplanes”—the name of the track he co-wrote (with Jim Beavers) for superstar Gary Allan that became one of the biggest country hits of the past year. The first single from Allan’s 2007 release Living Hard, “Watching Airplanes” spent more than thirty weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, peaking at 2. For the week ending February 19, 2008, the song was 1 on the Country Aircheck/Mediabase airplay chart.  Jonathan also wrote the current Billy Currington single “Don’t” off his upcoming album.
 

BOB DIPIERO

For the past 20 years, Bob DiPiero has helped define the best that is Music Row. A legendarily funny and compelling performer, he is one of a handful setting the bar for present-day songwriter/entertainers.
 
As a raconteur, he may have no equal among his peers, and as a musical ambassador and bridge-builder, he has helped make Nashville a port of call for legendary performers from all genres, writing with Neil Diamond, Carole King, Johnny Van Zant and Delbert McClinton, among many others.
 
He is one of Nashville's most consistent and prolific writers of hits, and he remains at the top of his profession more than two decades after hitting #1 on the charts for the first time in 1983. His long string of hits includes the Oak Ridge Boys’ "American Made," Montgomery Gentry's “If You Ever Stop Loving Me,” Vince Gill's "Worlds Apart," Shenandoah's "The Church On Cumberland Road," Ricochet's "Daddy's Money,"  George Strait "Blue Clear Sky," Brooks & Dunn's "You Can’t Take the Honky Tonk Out Of the Girl," and Martina McBride's "There You Are."
 
DiPiero has received three dozen BMI Country and Million-Air honors; CMA’s Triple Play Award in 1995 and 1996, “Song of the Year” for “Worlds Apart” at the Country Radio Music Awards in 1997, and Songwriter of the Year awards in 1998 at the Nashville Music Awards and in 2000 from Sony/ATV Nashville.
 

CMA Songwriters Series is proudly sponsored by American Airlines, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GAC.

This show is part of Joe's Pub's 10th Anniversary Celebration