Nashville Songwriters Association International

Here are some other awards it won.

He didn't get the nod for the Grammy, but the song did win Nashville Songwriter Association International's 1983 Song of the Year.

So here's why this is a big deal.

The Nashville, uh, Songwriters Association is a big deal because it's your guys that you're writing with.

Okay, so Carrie, now tell me this.

How does someone that has an MBA from Georgia State who sold advertising and then commercial real estate, was in Dallas and Atlanta, How did they end up writing the incredibly powerful song that becomes the NSAI, CMA, ACM Song of the Year, and Singled of the Year, gets nominated for the Golden Globe, the Oscar, the Grammy, and then is inducted in the prestigious Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014? Well, that's what we're going to find out.

Today's music legend hails from the great state of Georgia.

We're going to learn about his path to the Hall of Fame and that time in Atlanta and Dallas and ultimately settling into his songwriting career.

Yes.

After that evening.

And I would encourage all of our listeners, first of all, to go to just Google Tom Douglas NSAI acceptance speech.

And I think it's a 14-minute impactful.

the music mill.

Where was Music Mill? NSAI, the big log cabin.

Oh, really?

That was our

You've toured nationally and internationally, shared the stage and writing room with notable Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated artists, including Dan Navarro, Richard Lee, Tim Johnson, Melissa Fuller, and Georgia Miles.

She's an award-winning singer-songwriter, including accolades from NSAI, Around, you get it.

she's the host of cello tree arts presents a thriving east nashville house concert series that has gained national acclaim and each september during americana fest she is breaking down the gatekeeping by offering an amazing series hosting nearly a hundred artists across five days of music magic and connection she is the creator of the music business mastermind tundo and offering one-on-one artist consultations.

She is a speaker who has spoken at Rocky Mountain Song School, Opelika Songwriter Festival, and Gunnison Valley Music Association and helps artists understand their income streams.

And it made me go, okay.

And I got down to business and I got all those books I could find and reached out to all the organizations like NSAI.

Great organization.

Yeah, and a lot of the mentors who are giving kind of, I remember it was during COVID, so a lot of everything was online.

She's been writing with her friends.

Well, they're probably writing at her friend's apartment or at her apartment or maybe at a room at NSAI or something at BMI.

Well, when she signs her first publishing deal, The very next day, she's going to go to her next co-write.

And her next co-write is going to look exactly like her co-write did three days before when she was an amateur.

Right now, there are no federal laws protecting the music industry from AI-generated music topping the charts.

Lee Miller is the board president of the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

Is that what the public wants? Do you wanna live in a society where everything is just generated by the robot?

In Nashville, Tennessee, Asher Red, Fox News.

American singer and songwriter Sharon Vaughan was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019.

She's currently serving on the boards of NSAI and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, also active as part of the Faculty of Songwriting Academy based in London.

Sharon's versatility as a songwriter is exceptional.

It's hard, perhaps impossible, to find another person who has written both classic country songs and international pop hits, scripts and songs for musicals, and even enjoyed success in the Eurovision Song Contest.

And he said, you know, she's probably not going to ever get around to it, but her publishing company called him or texted him and gave him recommendations on different people to give the tape to.

And he said, she suggested I join the Nashville Songwriters Association, and that helped me, and then I moved to Nashville.

Wow.

She recommended that, and she just changed my life, and I was nobody.