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GSC Member Monday!
Ava Paige is an amazing performing, singer/songwriter and we are honored to support and encourage her efforts to be a success in the music industry. We believe that Ava is "Tomorrow's Talent Today!" Our GSC interviews feature many of Nashville's rising stars like our previous interviews with Riley Roth, Allie Aro, Riley Bria, Jessica Mack and others! Come ride the wave with us!
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Yay Ava!
Yea she has it!
Ava Rocks!
Go Ava!!
Old soul!! Love Ava Paige.
Looking for some weekend "binge" watching?
Check out GSC Member Jessica Mack in the CMT original show "Music City!" You can catch up on every episode with the link below. You will also hear a few snippets of songs co-written by Jessica, Jeffrey Joseph East and Patrick Dodge! Love seeing our GSC members rising. It is only because they are working! If you look close and quick...you might just see Louis Spoltore and myself in a couple of the wedding shots as well. It was a sincere honor to be invited and included in support of Dre and Jessica's very real love and life on their special day. Their wedding day was totally a fabulously wonderful day.
Reach out to Patrick, Jeffrey, Jessica and give them some LOVE and APPRECIATION! Happy watching!
www.cmt.com/shows/music-city/episode-guide?mc_cid=a44249117b&mc_eid=544aa67b31
Music City - Watch Full Episodes | CMT
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Browse the entire episode archive of Music City and watch the lastest episode free online on CMT.
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The "Sweetest Song Story" ever....
AND... just in time for Valentine's Day, the day we celebrate LOVE. This story starts with Gene Ezell and Johnny Brown who met at a GSC Christian Focus Retreat and were co-writing partners during the event. You truly NEVER know what is going to happen and what the future holds when you attend an event of this nature.
We certainly had no idea that our dear Johnny Brown would suddenly and without warning pass away of leukemia soon after the event. He was unaware that he was even ill. Johnny left behind a HUGE catalog of songs including those he had co-written with Gene at the Focus Retreat.
Fast Forward to Christmas Eve after Johnny's passing and Gene calls to let me know that he and Johnny got a CUT on the song they had co-written together at the Focus Retreat. Can you imagine how wonderful it was for me to call Carol, Johnny's beloved widow, and let her know that Johnny's dream had come true? But that's not all!....
They got a SECOND CUT! Oh but wait! That's not all!
Here on Valentine's Day, Gene has emailed Carol once again and included me in letting us all know that he and Johnny have another song on HOLD with yet another artist!
Thank you Carol and most especially thank you Gene for sharing my vision with me of seeing that Johnny's catalog of songs keeps reaching to artists through YOUR oversight and partnership. Thank you for doing this for me, for Johnny, for Carol, for the songs. What a beautiful gift to Carol today on Valentine's Day. LOVE in all of its many forms...beautiful.
Gene Ezell....YOU are amazing.
Johnny Brown...you were an amazing songwriter. Miss you.
Great story, thanks for sharing :-)
How lovely excellent admirable and praiseworthy
Great example of the power of our GSC “family” and our Focus Retreats.
Wonderful story!!!
Beautiful!!
Thats such an awesome story đź’•đź’•đź’•
Happy Valentines Day to ALL!! Alright...many of you heard about Riley Jayne Roth originally from GSC and now...just in time for Valentines Day this sweetheart is releasing her FIRST SINGLE! Even better our dear GSC pro writer friend Victoria Banks Petrelli is a co-writer on the song. Let's give this song WINGS!! Everyone join together and share this post with all of your songwriting friends on social media, call your local radio stations and request RILEY ROTH! If they don't know who she is yet...tell them they will! What a great gift for today. Watch her RISE!
www.soundslikenashville.com/music/exclusive-riley-roth-single-friendly
Riley Roth' 'Friendly' is Our New Jam!
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Check out the debut from this up-and-comer!
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GSC Member Monday! Riley Bria credits Riley Jayne Roth
GSC loves spotlighting great up and coming talent on our #GSCMemberMonday feature. This week we highlight the blazing talents of RILEY BRIA! You can learn more about Riley on his facebook page at www.facebook.com/RileyBriaMusic and through this interview by GSC Reporter, Daniel Reifsnyder
Dan Reifsnyder: So tell me about how you got into music.
Riley Bria: So my dad always played guitar. He's played in some bands back in Jersey in the day. At a really young age – like 4 – I showed interest. I got lessons at 8 and took lessons until I was 14. We had a family band that started when I was about 12, and that was huge for me. That was really, really big. My dad was the musical director and he wrote the tunes. We had a standard – we all wrote tunes but we never played any of the songs that the kids wrote because they just literally weren't good enough. Which is cool, because from a young age you have a standard set for what your show needs to be. So we did that, he wrote the songs, mom booked the shows. My older brother, Jaden, on drums, my younger brother, Spencer, on bass. I was on guitar and we all sang harmonies. We did that for about five years, and then moved here when I was 17.
DR: Who are some of your musical influences?
RB: Kieth Urban, for sure. This band called The 1975 has been real, real big for me. I had an ex-girlfriend introduce them to me a few years ago, and that was a game changer listening to their music. I'm sure everyone has that kind of moment, but it just really opened my eyes. Like instead of using genres as boxes, using them as kind of a palette to paint your picture with. They kind of broke that mold. So Keith, them, I love 80's hair metal so like Skid Row, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, and all that good stuff. Randy Rhoads was one of my favorite guitarists growing up. I don't really play much like him, but I love his playing so much.
DR: So who do you play like?
RB: I probably play more like Keith. I really like his melodic picks. He doesn't play fast, I get the fast stuff from the 80's dudes and the melodic stuff from like the Keith vibe.
DR: How did you get hooked up with GSC?
RB: Actually through a friend from back home in Pennsylvania, Riley Roth.
DR: Oh I know Riley! She's great! We've actually interviewed her!
RB: Yeah, she's great. I've known Riley for so long. Like I know the first songs that she wrote and watched her perform it for one of the first times. Yeah, she told me about Sheree!
DR: The Rileys!
RB: Yes, the Rileys! Seriously, that's good. I just wrote with her the other day! We had a great write! She's amazingly talented.
DR: For sure. Great voice, great personality. How do you like Nashville verses Pennsylvania?
RB: I really like it here. The pollen sucks so hard. But the people are great, and obviously this is where the business is. I didn't stay long enough in Pennsylvania to start hating it. You know, as a teenager you kind of start hating your home town. I left when I was 17 so I didn't start resenting my home town. I still really like it!
DR: Weren't you on American Idol too?
RB: Yeah! That was like 3 years ago. I was 17, we had just moved here, and my mom was like “Why don't you go audition?” When I was 16, I played guitar with Keith Urban at a country awards show. I thought “Man, that's a dope story to tell!" So I made it to the top 24 and got sent home. I met a lot of great people, and it was a cool thing. Sometimes people get worried about getting stuck with the brand, but 5 years down the road it's not gonna matter. That's something a friend of mine actually opened up my mind to recently. She was on The Voice. She was like “It was a great thing, it gave me confidence, and the stuff after that is going to be the best”. And I think that's just a really healthy way of looking at it.
READ THE REST OF THE INTERVIEW - globalsongwriters.com/interview-songwriter-riley-bria
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