Music Industry

Here are some of the industry highlights and involvement over the years.

RECORD LABEL MANAGEMENT

Managed Nashville Skyline Music (formerly Mansion Records) from 2014 to the present, including working with Sony RED (The Orchard) to distribute Gospel, Bluegrass, and Country products and now Syntax Creative. This included releases of artist albums by T. G. Sheppard, Trick Pony, John Berry, Benjy Gaither, and T. Graham Brown (Grammy Nominated ‘Forever Changed’ and ‘Christmas With T. Graham Brown, both Cracker Barrel retail placements). Multiple national charting radio releases, Billboard charting releases, Spotify featured playlist placements, etc

MUSIC PUBLISHING

Director of Publishing for the Welcome Home Press/BMI catalog which included songs like “Going Away Party” (Gaither Gospel Series: New Orleans Homecoming) and others.

Director of Publishing for Nashville Skyline Music (formerly Mansion Records) which has included chart songs such as “Don’t That Sound Like Heaven” by Palmetto State and “Forgive Myself” by Three Bridges.

Owner of Avid Group Publishing/BMI, Spiritual Music/BMI and John Mathis Music/ASCAP catalogs containing copyrights recorded by Charley Pride, Johnny Paycheck, Brad Davis, Jim Louderdale, The Florida Boys, Allison Speer, The Pfeifers, The Collingsworth Family, The Steeles, and many others.  Top charting and Dove Award-Nominated songs. Music placements in film, commercials, and television including TV shows like ‘Young Sheldon’ (CBS) and ‘Resident Alien’ (SYFY).

IN THE RECORDING STUDIO

Studio engineer and/or producer/co-producer on recording sessions with TG Shepperd, T. Graham Brown, American Idol Top 20 finalist Hailey Vaughn, Jordan’s Bridge, Sherry Anne, The Mark Dubbeld Family, Mercy Mountain Boys, Solid Gospel’s New Artist Search Winner Lonnie Weible & Downpour, The Tacketts, The Angela Lilly Trio, Steve Hess & Southern Salvation, Tonja Rose and many others. In the Spanish language market with Denis Castillo and Elizabeth Vera. Some of these projects and recordings have been chart singles on Christian Music charts or featured on Spotify curated playlists such a ‘New Music Friday Christian’.

RADIO RELEASES

​Management of Nashville Skyline Music Promotions (formerly Mansion Records) for over 14 years, including developing digital release platforms for radio and coordinating over 26 volumes of digital and compilation disc releases to Gospel, Country and Bluegrass radio formats with multiple top charting radio releases across multiple genres.

Developed and launched RadioSingleMP3.com to deliver high quality MP3 releases to radio in 2009. Utilized for label radio releases and independent releases.

Promotional campaigns to radio with supporting releases by artists such Triumphant Quartet, Three Bridges, Allison Speer, Palmeto State Quartet, Crosby Lane, Benjy Gaither, T Graham Brown, Tonja Rose, East Ridge Boys and others. In the Spanish radio market for Elizabeth Vera, Herencia MX and Denis Castillo. In the Worship market, Worth It Worship and weRcalled.

Development and launch of MusicaParaLaRadio.com in 2020 to provide music to Spanish Radio.

VIDEO PRODUCTION / FILM

Production director & editor for The Singing Cookes ‘Legacy of Love’ DVD 2014. Editor and developer of the Mansion Music Roku Channel (2012). Co-creator, director, editor of the popular Christian Music TV show, Nashville Country Revival, hosted by Darrel Freeman and seen on many national networks such as Daystar, Heartland TV (formerly TNN), TCT, Bluehighways TV and many others

Producer, director and/or editor on numerous concept and lyric videos for artists such as Brad Davis, Crosby Lane, Trick Pony, T. Graham Brown, Sherry Anne, Denis Castillo, The Steeles, Worth It Worship (Paula Stefanovich) and others with national television exposure and viral social media response.

Project Coordinator (and contributing songwriter) for the Billboard Video Chart Top 5 DVD, ‘Sherry Anne LIVE!’

Music supervisor for the independent film, The Ballad of Davy Crockett 2024.

PRESS, MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media management and development for Nashville Skyline Music, Nashville Country Revival, The Louisiana Hayride, Country Johnny Mathis, and multiple artists on social media platforms. Started one of the first websites to sell accompaniment tracks online in 1999. PerformanceTracks.com

Press & Publicity for Homeland Entertainment in 2000-2001

Press & Publicity for Nashville Skyline Digital (formerly Mansion Records)

Website development for sites such as ClassicCountryRevival.com, SouthernGospelIndustry.com, NashvilleCountryRevival.com, RadioSingleMP3.com, NashvilleSkylineDigital.com, BestNewWorshipSongs.com and others.

WRITER, BLOGGER, CLINICIAN & CONSULTANT

Monthly article contributor to The Singing News Magazine, ‘Life In A Song’ for 3 years. The Singing News is the largest Christian Music publication and premier print magazine with over 200,000 readers in 50 states.

Personal blog to share music business insight with aspiring artists, songwriters, musicians, etc at SouthernGospelIndustry.com for 2 years.

Feature cover article for Christian Voice Magazine, previous monthly article contributor to SGNScoops.com, previous monthly article contributor to SouthernGospelTimes.com.

Music Industry Consultant for artists and songwriters.

Author of the books, ‘Country Johnny Mathis – Sometimes Stardom Ain’t Enough’ and  ‘The Songwriter’s Guide To Taking The Next Steps’, available on Amazon, and Kindle.

Creator of the ‘Songwriter Hook Book’ series available on Amazon.

INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVE

Previous voting member of the CMA’s, Dove Awards and GRAMMY’s.

Industry participant for GMA’s IMMERSE luncheon at Lifeway in 2014 to share with emerging songwriters

Industry panel and participant for The Elijah Conference (God And Music Academy) in Nashville for 2 years

Devotional speaker for Creekside Gospel Music Convention, Pigeon Forge, TN

Songwriting Clinician for Worth It! ’19 and Worth It! ’22 (a music-driven worship conference) – St Louis, MO

Member of The Southern Gospel Music Guild