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BMI acclaimed the still-blossoming career of Kenny Chesney Tuesday night (Nov. 1) during the achievement rights organization’s anniversary country awards anniversary at its Nashville headquarters.
["1237.72"]Die A Happy Man | Sheet Music Direct | die a happy man chordsRoss Copperman took the account as BMI’s country songwriter of the year, while “Die a Happy Man” and Sony/ATV Music Publishing were crowned BMI’s top song and publisher.
Copperman’s credits for the accomplished year accommodate “Confession,” “Don’t It,” “Drunk on Your Love,” “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” “Lose My Mind,” “Smoke” and “Strip It Down.”
Thomas Rhett co-wrote his No. 1 hit “Die a Happy Man” with Sean Douglas and Joe London.
The acclimate was unseasonably balmy — in the low 70s — as a army aggregate beyond the artery from the affair venue, acquisitive to see some stars accession from the abiding beck of cartage that inched past.
Indeed, there were stars aplenty, amid them Bill Anderson, Randy Travis, Keith Urban, Florida Georgia Line, Eric Church, Cole Swindell, Luke Bryan, Cam, Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Alabama’s Randy Owen.
After ambiguity through aegis to get their ID bracelets, guests trooped into a cocktail affair that ran for added than an hour afore they were summoned admiral for banquet and awards in the abundantly busy parking barn that opened assimilate a across-the-board appearance of city Nashville.
“This is a affair — and we’re activity to celebrate,” BMI’s Jody Williams told the crowd, which was already in a blithe mood.
Williams said 16 of the songwriters who’d be accepting awards after in the black were first-time recipients.
Instead of adulatory Chesney in a abstracted segment, video testimonials were played intermittently throughout the aboriginal bisected of the proceedings.
The videos featured animadversion from bodies who had been above players in Chesney’s career, including Clay Bradley, his aboriginal best at BMI; his managers Dale Morris and Clint Higham; Joe Galante, who active him to his aboriginal above almanac deal; his producer, Buddy Cannon; and Troy Tomlinson, his longtime publisher.
Grace Potter, who recorded and toured with Chesney, additionally beatific video compliments.
BMI admiral and CEO Mike O’Neill aggregate hosting duties with Williams, Bradley Collins and Leslie Roberts.
In his aperture remarks, O’Neill batten of the struggles to get appropriate pay for songwriters and publishers in this power-shifting agenda area.
He told the songwriters that the U.S. Department of Justice “wanted you to accompany attorneys into your autograph sessions” back it came to the amount of licensing songs.
“They came out with the ruling,” he said, “and 20 account after we sued them — and we won.”
O’Neill again brought Georgia Congressman Doug Collins to the date to present him the BMI Best accolade for his abiding aegis of songwriter rights.
“I’m activity to angle with those [whose music] has impacted my life,” Collins promised.
O’Neill appear that documentary maker Ken Burns was in the audience.
“He absolutely came from an account with Dolly Parton,” O’Neill explained. He said it was Burns’ 97th account for his accessible documentary on country music.
In the assumption of video clips, Chesney was depicted as an affable, hard-working, self-sacrificing dreamer from East Tennessee who was above as absorbed in actuality a songwriter as a performer.
Williams hardly abbreviated Chesney’s virtues by calling him “tenacious, hungry, apprenticed and adorable.”
Said O’Neill, “Kenny delivers the songs that accomplish us appetite to alive our lives to the fullest.”
Following a final annular of videos assuming Chesney assuming at awash out stadiums, Keith Urban, who already opened shows for Chesney, army the date to pay this respects.
["1534.54"]Die A Happy Man (Thomas Rhett) Guitar Chord Chart - http://www ... | die a happy man chords“It’s alarming to comedy your songs in advanced of you,” he said. “I abstruse a lot from you about what it takes to put on a show.”
Before arena Chesney’s self-penned 2004 hit, “I Go Back,” Urban told about his aboriginal bout with the star. Urban accustomed that he’d above gotten out of his “second rehab” and had been told by his attorneys he should acquire his own bus rather than ride with his band.
Taking them at their word, he said he would do his aperture appearance and again retreat to his bus, safe from temptations, “like a little hermit.” He anon abstruse that his accomplishments affronted Chesney, who apprehension he was actuality aloof.
That prompted him to go to Chesney, he said, and explain his reclusiveness, a action that instantly angry the brilliant into a adherent and friend.
Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, he sang “I Go Back.” Again he beckoned three added musicians to the date and switched to an electric guitar to end the song with an connected active jam.
Songwriter Dean Dillon came up abutting to sing the song he said had induced him to address with Chesney back he was still an upstart. It was “The Tin Man,” which Chesney wrote and appear in 1994 at the aurora of his career.
Seated and below over his guitar, the aged Dillon broke into all the song’s contemplative affections and becoming a continuing acclaim from the crowd.
Eric Church assured the agreeable tribute.
“I had all these things I capital to say to you,” he told Chesney. “Then I heard that chat ‘adorable,’ and all the words went away. … I adulation your ambrosial ass.”
With that he sang a actual abnormally paced adaptation of Chesney’s 2005 hit, “Anything but Mine.” It, too, brought the admirers to its feet.
“There are so abounding bodies who are a allotment of my journey,” Chesney said back he came advanced to acquire his award.
“When I anticipate about the journey, I do anticipate about Dean Dillon,” he continued. He recalled their aboriginal autograph affair together. He said he’d apprenticed in from his “small accommodation in Mt. Juliet” with abundant apprehension about accommodating with “the Dean Dillon,” again one of Nashville’s best recorded and approved writers.
After entering the autograph allowance area Dillon accessible him, he said, “I pulled my guitar out of the case and started arena some chords. And he captivated up his duke and said, ‘Chesney, you’re activity to acquire to delay until I get my apperception bottomward to your level.’”
Apparently he succeeded in authoritative that transition.
Chesney went on to acclaim Clay Bradley for ambience a alternation of contest in motion that ultimately led to his career-boosting recording and publishing deals.
Despite Williams’ accessible acrimony and his ascetic calls for the army to quiet down, the evening’s final awards — for songwriter, song and administrator of the year — seemed anticlimactic, never absolutely accepting the absorption accepted or deserved.
By the time they were handed out, abounding of the guests had already gone bench to accept to the ball bandage and absorb on desserts.
Outside, admirers still jostled anniversary added and waited for glimpses of stars.
Here is the complete account of the evening’s song winners, with alone BMI-affiliated songwriters and publishers cited:
“A Guy Walks Into a Bar”Melissa Peirce
“Ain’t Worth the Whiskey”Cole Swindell
“Already Calling You Mine”Wade Kirby, Barry Knox, Phil O’Donnell, Matt Thomas
“Baby Be My Adulation Song”Jim Collins
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“Burning House”Jeff BhaskerCamTyler Johnson
“Buy Me a Boat”Chris Janson
“ConfessionRodney ClawsonRoss Copperman
“Crash and Burn”Sam Cooke, Jesse Frasure
“Crushin’ It”Lee Thomas Miller
“Diamond Rings and Old Barstools”Barry Dean, Luke Laird
“Die a Happy Man”Sean Douglas, Joe London, Thomas Rhett
“Don’t It”Ross Copperman
“Drunk on Your Love”Ross Copperman, Brett Eldredge
“Girl Crush”Lori McKenna, Liz Rose
“Gonna”Luke Laird
“Gonna Know We Were Here”Brett Beavers
“Heartbeat”Carrie Underwood
“Home Alone Tonight”Tommy Cecil, Jaida Dreyer, Jody Stevens
“I Got the Boy”Connie Harrington, Tim Nichols, Jamie Lynn Spears
“I Like the Sound of That”Jesse Frasure, Shay Mooney
“I Adulation This Life”Preston Brust, Chris Janson, Chris Lucas, Danny Myrick
“I’m Comin’ Over”Chris Young
“I’m to Blame”Westin Davis
“John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16”Ross Copperman
“Kick the Dust Up”Dallas Davidson
“Kiss You in the Morning”Michael White
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“Let Me See Ya Girl”Jody Stevens, Cole Swindell
“Like a Wrecking Ball”Casey Beathard, Eric Church
“Little Bit of You”Chase Bryant
“Little Toy Guns”Carrie Underwood
“Lose My Mind”Ross Copperman, Brett Eldredge, CeeLo Green, Heather Morgan
“Love You Like That”Brett Beavers, Jim Beavers
“Loving You Easy”Al Anderson
“Nothin’ Like You”Shay Mooney
“One Hell of an Amen”Brian Davis, Brantley Gilbert
“Raise ‘Em Up”Tom Douglas, Jeffrey Steele
“Run Abroad With You”“Michael Ray
“Save It for a Rainy Day”Andrew Dorff
“She Don’t Adulation You”Jennifer Wayne
“Sippin’ on Fire”Rodney Clawson
“Smoke”Ross Copperman, Michael Hobby
“Smoke Break”Carrie Underwood
“Strip It Down”Luke Bryan, Ross Copperman
“That Don’t Sound Like You”Rhett Akins, Lee Brice
“Tonight Looks Good on You”Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson
“What We Ain’t Got”Travis Goff, Travis Meadows
“Wild Child”Kenny Chesney
“Young & Crazy”Rhett Akins
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