Industry Ink Tuesday

• • • Toby Keith is heading into the Oct. 24 release of Clancy’s Tavern with a No. 1 hit. The album’s lead single “Made In America” is his 29th charttopper and recently went to No. 1 on MusicRow’s CountryBreakout chart. He penned the track with frequent co-writer Bobby Pinson. A Deluxe Edition of Clancy’s Tavern includes four extra songs that are covers recorded live at Keith’s 2010 Incognito Bandito club show at The Fillmore in New York City.

• • • Over 250 members of the industry gathered for the annual End of the Row Party to raise money and awareness for the TJ Martell Foundation on Sept. 22. The event was hosted for the second year by law firm Crownover, Blevins behind their offices and sponsored by Merrill Lynch’s Raj Patnik and Zach Richards. The night netted over $5500 for the Foundation and featured performances by hit songwriters Barry Dean, Brett James, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally. Laura Bell Bundy was the host and emcee. Other up-and-coming writers who performed were Liz Moriondo, Jeremy Parsons, James Hunter, Julie Foresterand Jen Foster.

• • • Last week Belmont University welcomed Grand Ole Opry GM and VP Pete Fisher as guest speaker for the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business seminar series. Fisher also serves on the Curb College advisory board.

• • • Grammy winning artist and songwriter Peter Frampton will join the Music City Walk of Fame, presented by founding sponsor Gibson Guitar. Frampton will be recognized officially with the unveiling of a commemorative sidewalk marker on Sat., Oct. 22 at 1:00 p.m. in Walk of Fame Park in downtown Nashville. The induction ceremony sponsored by GAC, is free and open to the public. Frampton lived in Nashville for seven years, and many of his band and crew live here. He continues to write, record and rehearse in the city regularly.

• • • Gene Watson’s tour bus was in a wreck over the weekend. Thankfully no one was seriously injured. He was eight miles from his show in Sandstone, MN when the bus lurched off the road and nearly flipped over. He is now back in Nashville where he will join Randy Travis on the Grand Ole Opry tonight to sing “Didn’t We Shine,” which was recorded for Travis’s 25th Anniversary Celebration album.

• • • APA’s David Plyler was the top fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Middle Tennessee’s “Nashville’s Top 30 Under 30” initiative. He was honored at a party Sat., Sept. 24 on the 21st floor of The Pinnacle at Symphony Center. The event had raised more than $55,000 for cystic fibrosis research.

Pictured following the Women's Half-Marathon in Nashville. (L-R): Caitlin King Rossman (Associated Press), Cindy Heath (Monarch Publicity), Lori Christian (Capitol Records)