Songwriting With: Soldiers presents Nashville Hit Writers Round w/ Mary Gauthier, James House, Danny Myrick, Trent Willmon
October 14, 20245:30 PM
SongwritingWith:Soldiers holds weekend retreats across the U.S. for veterans from all conflicts. Since 2012, we have connected with hundreds of veterans and military families, creating a s
Doors – 5:30 pm
Show – 7:00 pm
About SongwritingWith:Soldiers
SongwritingWith:Soldiers holds weekend retreats across the U.S. for veterans from all conflicts. Since 2012, we have connected with hundreds of veterans and military families, creating a safe and inspiring environment to share their experiences and write songs with professional songwriters. These songs have been recorded and streamed across the internet, reaching and connecting more veterans and raising civilian awareness of the challenges the military community faces.
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About Mary Gauthier
“With songwriting as powerful as hers, there’s no need to go looking for qualifiers. She’s a unique, intrinsically valuable musical voice. And there’s never a surplus of those.”— Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Time
The Associated Press named Mary Gauthier as one of the best songwriters of her generation. Her songs have been recorded by dozens of artists, including Jimmy Buffett, Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Bettye Lavette, Mike Farris, Amy Helm and Candi Staton, and have appeared extensively in Film and Television, most recently on Yellowstone, ABC’s Nashville, HBO’s Banshee, and Masterpiece Theater’s Case Histories. Her second album, Filth and Fire was named Best Independent CD of the year by the New York Times. She was signed to Universal Lost Highway, and her following 3 records were listed in both the LA Times and NY Times top-three releases of the corresponding year. Her record Mercy Now was named in the Top-5 records of the decade by No Depression magazine. She was awarded New Artist of the year by The Americana Music Association in 2005. Mary has released 9 studio albums.
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About James House
James House is a Grammy and CMA-nominated singer/songwriter with country song of the year nominations for “A Broken Wing,” Martina McBride and Dwight Yoakam’s “Ain’t Tha tLonely Yet.” Both songs have received the very rare BMI 5 Million Radio Airplay Award while Diamond Rio’s number-one smash “In A Week Or Two” has over 2 Million Radio Airplays. On top of that he’s been awarded 4 BMI Awards for songwriting, with over 100 cuts by artists such as Joe Bonamassa, The Mavericks, Tina Turner, Olivia Newton John, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Tyler, Sara Evans, The Warren Brothers, Ricky VanShelton, Kylie Minogue, Lori Morgan, Rita Coolidge, and more. As a recording artist for Epic records he hit the top of the Billboard Charts with his song “This is Me Missing You,” from his album “Days Gone By.”
In 2024, James released a musical journey audiobook called “Lost in Laurel Canyon” to Audible, which featured stories and songs about his life. The soundtrack was released digitally in Aug, 2024.
Currently still writing and performing around the world as well as producing new artists at his private recording studio in Nashville Tn.
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About Danny Myrick
Danny Myrick is one of the most sought after songwriters in Nashville TN. He has had cuts on a diverse range of artists from Montgomery Gentry to Joe Cocker to Kenny Chesney to Maddie & Tae, which have sold over 50 million records combined. Danny has celebrated numerous hits, including Craig Morgan’s “International Harvester.” Tim McGraw’s “Truck Yeah,” LoCash’s “I Love This Life” and 2009’s most played country smash, “She’s Country.” In 2020, Danny released his first solo EP “King Of Jones County,” featuring the acclaimed song and video “God Is A Gun,” and produced recent #1 albums “Love Out Of Time” by The Voice Season 17 winner Jake Hoot and “Company’s Comin’,” by Actor/Comedian Leslie Jordan, featuring Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton, Eddie Vedder, Brandi Carlile, TJ Osborne and more.
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About Trent Willmon
Trent Willmon is an American singer, songwriter, and CMA Award winning music producer. Born in Amarillo and raised on a ranch in west Texas, Trent later moved to Nashville, TN and signed with Sony Records, having hits such as “Beer Man” and “On Again Tonight”, as well as writing songs for other artists like Brad Paisley and Montgomery Gentry. He also produces many artists including Cody Johnson and Kevin Fowler.
His cowboy persona evoked a call to take part in television as the host of GAC’s America’s Top Cowboy and voiceover narration on the show Meet The McMillans. You may have even seen him in a star role in the movie Palo Pinto Gold.
Trent Willmon has written many songs cut by top recording artists like Brad Paisley, Eric Church, Cody Johnson, Little Big Town, Randy Houser, Blake Shelton, Wade Hayes, Kevin Fowler, Maddie & Tae, Roger Creager, Merle Haggard and more. Several of his co-written songs have topped the Billboard charts, and he has written more than 25 songs that have reached the #1 spot on the Texas Regional Radio Report.
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