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About Me

I remember staring at the sheet music on my Grandmothers piano trying to make sense out of it when I was about 10 years old. There was always a name that said composed by... I always wanted my name on a piece of paper like that. Well many years later I am a songwriter with 40 plus cuts by various artist including.Wynonna Judd, Arron Watson/Wilie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Chris LeDoux, John Michael Montgomery, Andy Griggs, Lisa Brokop, Billy Joe Royal, Emerson Drive. Trent Tomlinson Danielle Peck Clay Walker Gary Nichols Diamond Rio/AmyGrant/Vince Gill, Brian James, Mamoth Jack, John Paul White, Halfway to Hazard, Zach Hacker---and others. But even with plaques on the walls of my office I am still hungry as ever. I still want my name on sheetmusic. I love the feeling of hunger when it comes to writing. I hope I never lose it. I have great hopes for this year with new cuts by Randy Travis, Patti Paige, Nicole Witt, Cadillac Sky, Eric Durance,, Adam Gregory, Justin Moore. I am also in the middle of writing a book about songwriting. Thanks for stopping by. I created my profile with Myspace Layouts+

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Member Since: 3/18/2005
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Influences: Cat Steven, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, Santana, Merle Haggard, Charlie Rich, Charlie Pride, Vern Gosdin, Black Gospel and AM Radio. New artist I love are Holly Williams, Mindy Smith, and Will Champlin.
Sounds Like: A hit!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The twelve steps of cycling

I walked into spin class in January overweight out of shape with every excuse a man could make. The biggest fear was the fear of not being able to keep up with the ones that have been doing it for a ...
Posted by Kris on Sat, 24 May 2008 03:10:00 PST

Charity Bike Rides!

Ok, --everyone is asking what I've been doing to lose the weight! Well, it's really simple--I have found me a new mission in life. It's the charity bike ride. I started training my friend Alisa McC...
Posted by Kris on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:59:00 PST

Key West Songwriters Festival

This is my third trip to Key West and next year should be your first. If you put 200+ songwriters in the mix with the locals of Key West you will be a part of many strange early mornings and late nig...
Posted by Kris on Sun, 04 May 2008 08:00:00 PST

Teaching

I don’t know what it is about teaching but I sure do love it. I listened to some very talented artists at Belmont for Jamie Wiggingtons’ class. He is a supreme voice teacher an...
Posted by Kris on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:33:00 PST

Frank Brown and Flora-Bama

Well, I just got back from Flora-Bama and now I'm off to LA. It's a wonderful thing to have a publisher believe in you enough that you can travel and still have a check when you get back. ...
Posted by Kris on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:10:00 PST

Nashville Star

Well it's over and Nashville Star has a new winner and it is Angela Hacker. Her Little Brother Zach had to settle for 2nd place. What a great finish for both of them though, beginning with...
Posted by Kris on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:55:00 PST

Trent Tomlinson

Trent Tomlinson's CD has arrived. Bart Butler hooked me up with Trent about 10 years ago when Bart was plugging at MCA. We wrote a few songs from time to time but about a year ago we wrote...
Posted by Kris on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:16:00 PST

Gary Nichols Radio Tour

Hey from the Twin Cities, This week I got to first hand see what it is like being on a radio tour with an artist. Gary has had to work very hard but the excitement seems to make it easy.&nb...
Posted by Kris on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:56:00 PST

Jason Salzer

Jason Salzer and I sat down to write today and we had a great time. We talked about everything from children to apartments. You really get to know a lot about someone when you write a...
Posted by Kris on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:46:00 PST