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H. Jack Williams Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Seventeen - H Jack Williams: Highly Acclaimed Singer / Songwriter When I set my mind out to do something, I do it. - H. Jack Williams For this episode, we’re at Anthem Entertainment in Nashville with singer/songwriter H. Jack Williams. Anthem is one of the world’s leading independent music and entertainment content and services companies with publishing, production, the iconic Anthem Records, Film & Television, Music Licensin

Glen Campbell Tribute: Part Two - Kim Campbell

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Sixteen - Glen Campbell Tribute: Part Two: Kim Campbell Dear God, please send me a southern, good looking Christian millionaire who I can be in love with and he can be in love with me…and there I was, having dinner with Glen Campbell. — Kim Campbell Welcome to part two of our interview series on the life and music of Glen Campbell, recorded before a live studio audience at the Glen Campbell Museum in Nashville, Tennessee on Ap

Glen Campbell Tribute: Part One - TK Kimbrell, Mike Borchetta & Julian Raymond

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Fifteen - Glen Campbell Tribute: Part One - TK Kimbrell, Mike Borchetta & Julian Raymond There was never a more wonderful human being on the planet than Glen Campbell. - Mike Borchetta Generations of artists count Glen Campbell as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. He was gifted with the kind of voice that connected to the lyric and the listener in a memorable way. Experts say that Glen Campbell was the greatest guitar

Candy & Jacy: Manifesting & Wish Boards

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Fourteen - Candy & Jacy: Manifesting & Wish Boards Manifesting your dreams and visualizing your success works. We’re proof of that. -Candy & Jacy This episode is a little bit different from the others. While together in Palm Springs, California for a west coast swing of interviews, we decided to sit down with cozy blankets and glasses of vodka and soda to talk about our career paths in music. Trust us, the road has been fil

Lindy Robbins Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Thirteen - Lindy Robbins, Multi-platinum selling & award-winning songwriter Did I change somebody’s life, or change somebody’s day or help somebody to survive cancer because of this song that was a joy to write? That’s everything. - Lindy Robbins Our trip to Los Angeles was a blast. We had lunch in Beverly Hills, walked up and down Rodeo Drive like we were Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and then hopped in the car for this int

Anthony Resta Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Twelve - Anthony Resta, Platinum Selling Producer, Composer & Musician Being a producer is a lot like directing a film. You want to have a look at the bigger picture. You need to be able to zoom out and help the artist get a picture of where they’ve always wanted to go. -Anthony Resta We’re back from our west coast swing where we were searching for interviews with iconic music industry pros. One day in California we ended up

Jim Vest Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Eleven - Jim Vest, Award-winning Steel Guitarist, Producer & Author Somebody from an 11 dollar house in Alabama has cut some of the biggest records in the world and if that can happen for me, it can happen for you. - Jim Vest We can hardly wait for you to hear this interview with Jim Vest: musician, producer, songwriter, and leader of the legendary Nashville Cats. Recorded in an easy chair from his cozy home just outside of

Pam Lewis Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Ten - Pam Lewis, Nashville Publicist & Preservationist There are a lot of parallels between the French wine industry and the country music industry. The vintners will cut back the vines to make them suffer in order to produce the best grapes. There is a part of this town that wants you to suffer a little bit. You’ve got to pay your dues. - Pam Lewis Have you ever wondered about the role PR and marketing play in the development

Bobby Tomberlin Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode Eight - Bobby Tomberlin - GRAMMY, CMA, and ACM nominated songwriter: Blake Shelton, Diamond Rio, Faith Hill, Dolly Parton. Be a good hang. Don’t bring dark energy into the room and be kind to people. Love the music so much, it loves you back. - Bobby Tomberlin We’re kicking off 2022 with a trip to Curb WORD on Nashville’s famous Music Row. This iconic songwriter’s think-tank is owned by music industry giant Mike Curb and we’r

Their First Time on the Radio!

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode seven - Their First Time on the Radio: Sara Evans, John Schneider, Crystal Gayle, Jamie O'Neal & more For this episode, Jacy and I got to thinking about our favorite answers to the questions we always ask during our interviews with country music icons. We decided to put together a“best of” episode that featured singers and songwriters answering the question: tell me about the first time you ever heard yourself on the radio? It

Frank Myers Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode six - Frank Myers : Grammy award-winning songwriter, producer, Crystal Gayle, Lonestar, Vince Gill “You and I” just stuck out to me as a title, so I just wrote it down on a piece of paper with some other titles because I was really just learning how to write songs. - Frank Myers From a career that began as a singer with a guitar on stages large and small at only 11, opening for Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton, to touring with E

Jamie O'Neal Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode five - Jamie O'Neal: Grammy Nominee, ACM & Billboard award-winning artist When I had the chicken pox, I went on stage. When I had a cracked rib, I went on stage. And that is the old Vaudeville saying“the show must go on.” - Jamie O'Neal Music Row is pretty magical. The streets that make up this iconic area of Nashville are lined with old craftsman style houses that are now record labels, publishing houses, recording studios, mu

Lily Isaacs of The Isaacs Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode four - Lily Isaacs of The Isaacs We love it so much. We love our fans, we love what we do, and it is exhausting, but I think it’s a calling on our lives where, we have to do this. This is part of our blood. It’s our calling. - Lily Isaacs In this interview, we settle into the living room of Lily Isaacs, co-founder & matriarch of The Isaacs, a multi-award-winning family group whose music is described as Southern Gospel, bluegr

Sonny LeMaire of Exile Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode three - Sonny LeMaire of Exile The appeal of music for me was playing the music. When you start playing, and that music is blowing by you, around you. It is the most amazing, glorious feeling. - Sonny LeMaire In this episode, we sit down with Sonny LeMaire, bass player, singer/songwriter for the iconic group Exile. Taped in Sonny’s cozy living room outside of Nashville, we learn all about what it takes to succeed in rock, pop

Chris Lindsey Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Season 2 Episode two - Chris Lindsey I think I am known as a nice guy. It’s more important to be a great person than it is to be a hit songwriter. - Chris Lindsey In this episode, we’re heading back to Aimeeland, a famous recording studio just outside of Nashville for an interview with Grammy nominated hit songwriter, Chris Lindsey. In this magical studio nestled beside the home he shares with wife Aimee Mayo and their three children, Chris ha

Candy & Jacy

Country Music Success Stories | Episode Eighteen - Meet the Hosts Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves because the creation of Country Music Success Stories combines both of our talents and checks all of our boxes! -Candy O’Terry & Jacy Dawn Valeras We’ve been getting lots of messages from listeners (and please keep ‘em coming @countrymusicsuccessstories). They tell us that they love hearing about the country music icons we interview, but they wish they knew more about the

TG Sheppard Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Episode Nine - Interview with TG Sheppard I was only 15 when I climbed out my window and ran away to Memphis with 60 cents in my pocket. I look around at my life now and I realize that it all started with just 60 cents. -TG Sheppard Incredible as it seems, TG Sheppard was a runaway teen with a lifelong dream of making it in country music. In this interview, TG and his wife Kelly Lang welcome us into their home for a chat around the kitchen t

Larry Strickland Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Episode Eight - Interview with Larry Strickland You’ve gotta find what is different or unique about yourself and then put that out in front, even if it scares you to death. - Larry Strickland Relationships are everything and in Nashville they are made of gold. When Jacy introduced me to Naomi Judd and we interviewed her at their compound in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, her husband Larry Strickland was sitting on a couch in the recording studio, ju

Karen Staley Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Episode Seven - Interview with Karen Staley I didn’t come to Nashville having played bars for 10 years. I was a total green horn. So I learned a lot. It’s a blast, it’s like perpetual adolescence. - Karen Staley Welcome to the success story of a woman whose songs have been played on radio more than 12 million times (and counting) with downloads at about 20 million! Karen Staley is in a league of her own as a Nashville quadruple threat who sing

Kent Blazy Interview

Country Music Success Stories | Episode Six - Interview with Kent Blazy I first wrote poetry and got it published in the high school year book and it gave me a little bit of positive feedback that somebody must like what I do. The minute I got a guitar, I just started trying to put the two together and started writing songs instead of poetry. - Kent Blazy As Jacy and I made our way up the hill to Kent Blazy’s house, I couldn’t help but wonder how his climb, his success story

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