Previously Featured in 2022
Jessi Alexander
Established Singer/ Songwriter, Jessi Alexander, is the writer of some of the chart topping hits on country radio. Alexander has penned four #1’s including “I Drive Your Truck” recorded by Lee Brice which won Song of the Year from the 2013 CMA Awards, 2014 ACM Awards, and 2013 NSAI Awards. Additional #1’s include Blake Shelton’s “Mine Would Be You” and “Drink On It.” Alexander’s career skyrocketed with her song “The Climb.” Miley Cyrus recorded the song and it soon became the anthem for her box office hit “The Hannah Montana Movie” and won the 2009 MTV Movie Awards ‘Best Song From A Movie.’
Jon Nite
Born in Amarillo, Texas, Jon Nite is a CMA and ACM award winning singer/songwriter who has written over a dozen top ten country hits. Jon's songs have been recorded by stars like Tim McGraw, Dierks Bentley, Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, David Nail, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Phillip Phillips, Chase Rice, Jake Owen, Michael Ray, Chris Young, Adam Craig, Darius Rucker, Dustin Lynch, and more. Teaming with Sony ATV Music Publishing in Nashville, Jon has found a home with hits like “What Ever She’s Got” by David Nail, “Smoke” by A Thousand Horses, “We Were Us” vocal event of the year with Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert, “Beachin” by Jake Owen, “Strip It Down” by Luke Bryan, “Break On Me” by Keith Urban, "Noise" by Kenny Chesney, “Think A Little Less” by Michael Ray, “If I Told You” by Darius Rucker, and "I'd be Jealous Too" by Dustin Lynch. Jon is a master of poetically sentimental lyrics, a talent illustrated by his song "Boy" recorded by Lee Brice, written for his son and his co-writer Nicolle Galyon's baby boy days before she gave birth to him. Jon has received two CMA Triple Play awards for writing three #1 songs in a year.
Jon Randall
TA GRAMMY, CMA, and ACM Award-winner, Jon Randall has seemingly done it all over his three-plus decades in the music business, working as a songwriter, guitarist, and critically acclaimed producer with some of the biggest names in country, bluegrass, and Americana. Born and raised in Dallas, Randall caught his first big break after moving to Nashville, where he was invited to join Emmylou Harris’s Nash Ramblers band. In the years to come, he would go on to release a series of widely lauded solo records, produce for Dierks Bentley, Dwight Yoakam, Jack Ingram, Pat Green, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others, and write with and for the likes of Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Blake Shelton, Little Big Town, Guy Clark, Kenney Chesney, Reba McEntire, and countless more. He’d go on to earn a slew of award nominations, as well, and take home CMA Song of the Year honors in 2005 for “Whiskey Lullaby,” recorded by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, and the ACM Song of the Year trophy in 2018 for “Tin Man,” which he penned with Lambert and Ingram on one of their regular writing retreats to Marfa. The three returned there in 2019 to record their bare bones Marfa Tapes album, nominated for ACM Album of the Year.