[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download Last week I mentioned how every artist has someone who has inspired them. Some create an album almost indistinguishable from the person they’re being influenced by, while others take bits & pieces from those musicians who inspire them to create something strangely familiar but uniquely their own. [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download Every musician has someone that has inspired him or her to pursue a career in music. Many female artists in Nashville, at least those pursuing a career as a singer/songwriter, have been inspired by this week’s Free Music Friday artist, Katie Herzig. Katie Herzig is originally from [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download Nashville is a songwriter’s town; I’m not saying anything new with that one. There is just something about this town that contributes itself well to music that reaches the heart because it just gets in the blood (to steal a line from Trent Dabbs’ song “Neil Young”). [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download The first time I went to a Ten out of Tenn show was the first time I was introduced to this week’s Free Music Friday artist, Tyler James. I saw how Tyler’s music & personality had a way of bringing new life into the room, not only [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download A great movie would be nothing without a great soundtrack. It sets the mood, draws you into the movie & sometimes explains a scene better than the lines themselves. We’re big fans of Keegan Dewitt here at MCI, not only for his great albums like Islands, the [...]