Previously Featured in 2023
Heather Morgan
Heather Morgan is a singer/songwriter in the truest sense. She's written multiple #1 songs for Brett Eldredge (Beat of the Music, Love Someone, Lose My Mind), Brandon Heath (See Me Through It) and Wade Bowen (Everything Has Your Memory). She won BMI's Song of the Year in 2015 for "Beat of the Music" and recently won the T3R Song of the Year award in Texas with Wade Bowen and Eric Paslay for "Everything Has Your Memory." Additionally, she's written songs for Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, Maren Morris, Dustin Lynch, The Eli Young Band and more. She released her debut album, Borrowed Heart in 2018 and her work has been featured on CMT, in The New York Times, Garden and Gun, and Rolling Stone. She made her Grand Ole Opry debut in 2019 and her Ryman debut in 2020. Her music has been recently featured on the TV series, Nashville, CBS' Fire Country, and Fox's drama series, Monarch. She has enjoyed mentoring college students through She Is The Music, and co-founded Girls of Nashville, an acclaimed female songwriter series that features the best of Nashville female talent while also giving back to charitable organizations in the community.
Matt Jenkins
Matt Jenkins is the songwriter publishers dream of. Perfectly riding the line between cool and commercial, Jenkins’ songs always leave the listener wanting more. A 2017 CMA Triple Play Award Winner, he has earned six #1 singles, including "Happy Anywhere" from Blake Shelton ft. Gwen Stefani, "Do I Make You Wanna" by Billy Currington, "Song For Another Time" by Old Dominion and "Setting The World On Fire" by Kenny Chesney ft. Pink. He wrote Florida Georgia Line's "Confession", Dustin Lynch's "Where It's At" and Keith Urban's hit single "Cop Car." Jenkins has recently had cuts with Sam Hunt, Old Dominion, Walker Hayes, Travis Denning, and Jordan Davis, including Davis's current Top 10 single, "Buy Dirt" featuring Luke Bryan.
Learn more about Matt Jenkins at CombustionMusic
Chase McGill
Chase McGill grew up in the small town of Columbus, MS. He began taking piano lessons at the age of 5 and picked up a guitar at age 12.
“I always hated the actual lessons and having to learn other people's songs", McGill says. "So, to make my mom think I was practicing, I'd have the sheet music in-front of me, but I'd sit for hours and write until I thought I had something that could fool her into thinking a 'real' composer must have done. It never fooled my teacher..."
By the age of 15, McGill had joined his first rock band where he began playing shows at the local theaters and bars. He would spend the next 10 years in bands ranging from country to hard rock, bluegrass to blues and traveling the country, taking in every image and emotion that the life that led him to Nashville had to offer.
“I spent a lot of my youth in the woods or on the river with my dad. He used to harp on how being observant to every little detail is what would land the bigger buck or bass. I guess I think of songs like that. I think those little details that can only make it from pen to pad if you’ve lived it are what takes the song from a spike to a 12 point so to speak.”
McGill signed his first publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group in December of 2012 and has quickly become one of the most sought-after writers in Nashville. His songs have been recorded by a wide range of Artists including Kenny Chesney, Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Little Big Town, Cole Swindell, Kane Brown, Brett Young, Jon Pardi, Morgan Wallen, and Justin Moore.
In addition to these recordings, Chase has maintained a consistent presence on country radio with singles “The Way I Talk” by Morgan Wallen, “When Someone Stops Loving You” by Little Big Town and scored his first 3 number one songs in 2018 with “Lose It” by Kane Brown, “Break Up In The End” by Cole Swindell, and “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset” by Luke Bryan.
Learn more about Chase McGill at Universal Music Publishing Group