Author Archive: Sarah Skates
Sarah Skates has worked in the music business for more than a decade and is a longtime contributor to MusicRow.
Industry Ink (10/22/12)
Hall of Fame salutes Millie Kirkham • Taylor Swift on GMA • Brett James joins CMA Songwriters Series • SOLID Turkey Bowl • Nashville Symphony • Listening Room Cafe • Restaurant Aura
Category: Featured
Industry Pics: Carrie Underwood, Sarah Darling, WMBA
Darling inks with CAA • Underwood celebrates platinum single • WMBA hosts panelists, accepts applications
Category: Artist, Featured, Label, Organizations, Touring
Kobalt Signs David Hodges
Multiple Grammy and BMI award-winning songwriter and producer, David Hodges, has signed an exclusive worldwide agreement with Kobalt Music Group to administer all new and forthcoming works […]
Category: Featured, Publishing
Primetime “Nashville”: Episode 102
For all the industry troops who were at the Dale Franklin Awards or Capitol Street Party and couldn’t tune in, here’s what you missed […]
Joanna Smith Shoots Video; Blue Sky Riders At Franklin Theatre
RCA Records artist Joanna Smith spent a rainy Friday in scenic downtown Franklin, Tenn. recently shooting a music video for her debut RCA single “We Can’t Be Friends,” from her Be What It Wants To Be EP. The clip follows Smith as she runs into her old flame and deals with the heartache of knowing […]
Snapshots: Rucker, Hayes, and SOLID
Darius Rucker Joins The Opry • Hunter Hayes Plays Staples Center • SOLID Elects Officers
Category: Artist, Featured, Organizations, Touring
Publishing Notes
Benom Plumb leaving Bluewater • Condolences to Ten Ten’s Patrick Clifford on his mother’s passing
Category: Featured, Publishing
Darrell Brown Inks New Publishing Agreement
His work is included on albums that have sold more than 70 million units […]
Category: Featured, Publishing
Don Poythress Inks Publishing Deal
New co-pub deal with Big Machine Music and Crosscut Music […]
Category: Featured, Publishing
UMPG Names Kent Klavens Sr. VP
Former Famous Music executive will handle Business and Legal Affairs […]
Category: Featured, Publishing
The Happy Racers Embrace Growing Kindie Genre
A few years ago songwriter/musician/producer Nathan Meckel wasn’t very excited when his father, publisher Mark Meckel, tried to convince […]
