Taking the music business by glacier !!
Jeff Pedigo, BMI/Parrish Blake Stanton, ASCAP
Publishers, Nature's Way Music, BMI/One Kiss Music, ASCAP
PARRISH STANTON
Although Parrish Stanton has been both a Marine Corps JAG Officer and
competitive surfer, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue his first
love . . . Country Music. He is a successful commercial jingle-writer and
is currently writing mainstream country songs. His collaboration with Jeff
Pedigo has yielded not just great songs but a great friendship as well. He
currently resides in Franklin, Tennessee.
JEFF PEDIGO
When Jeff Pedigo arrived in Nashville in 2003 he was impressed two days
later when his hairstylist mentioned that they wrote songs. Always curious,
Pedigo started reading any and every songwriting book he could get his hands on. Within weeks he started turning out lyrics. By the end of the year he had written the lyrics to several dozen songs and needed to find a
collaborator that could write the music
In December 2003 Pedigo joined Nashville Songwriter's Association
International (NSAI) and started attending their workshops. In April 2004
he attended his first NSAI Songwriter's Symposium part of Tin Pan South, a
major songwriter's festival. It was at this symposium where the introverted
Pedigo met his future co-writer Parrish Stanton. Pedigo recalls, "I just
forced myself to shake hands with the person sitting next to me at each
session." At one of these sessions he shook Stanton's hand.
Within a month the new songwriting duo would begin their first song. The
prolific duo of Pedigo and Stanton would go on to write more than a hundred
songs in their first year including DEAR SANTA.
Pedigo says his favorite songwriters are Bernie Taupin and Kris
Kristofferson. His musical influences include classic rock and classic
country. He has seven daughters and a son and lives in Brentwood, Tennessee with his wife and children.
