Synopsis
Welcome to This Nashville Life with Kelleigh Bannen: the story of how Music City makes its biggest export.The who, the how, the why, and the why not of country music. Part love letter, part hate mail, part how to guide.Come with us as we try to figure out what it means to live This Nashville Life.The show is engineered by Kevin Sokolnicki, and co-produced by Kelleigh and Kevin.
Episodes
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Episode 3: How {Not} To Get A Record Deal
21/09/2016 Duration: 24minHow does someone “get discovered?” A&R executive Autumn House Tallant sheds some light on the process of how to get signed to a record deal and how not to. She recalls some of the best, and the “best of the worst” artist pitches she’s witnessed while at a major label. Autumn also shares the signing stories of some her most famous artists: Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, and Eric Church.
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Episode 2: Co-work, co-llaborate, co-write
06/09/2016 Duration: 22minDemystifying the Nashville phenomenon of “co-writing” (i.e. how songs get written on Music Row. Guest: hit songwriter Laura Veltz (songs by Maren Morris, Reba McEntire, Eli Young Band, Chris Young.)
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Episode 1 (Pilot): The Radio Game
22/08/2016 Duration: 27minHow a song makes its way from one of a handful of streets on Music Row in Nashville to the top of the charts nationwide. Guest: JoJamie Hahr of Broken Bow Records.