Custom Accompaniment Tracks
Posted: October 21, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Custom Piano Accompaniment
- Cover Tunes
- Write your original song to a track we create for you
- Perform Live Or Use For Recording
- Reasonable Pricing
- You Retain All Rights
- Expandable, We Can Add More Instruments After Your Song Is Written
Jesus On My Lips
Posted: August 10, 2016 Filed under: Christian, Uncategorized Leave a commentThis simple, sweet Christian ballad didn’t require much instrumentation to make it work.
Hot off the press, so to speak, here’s Michael Rourke’s “Jesus On My Lips”
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Piano: Steve King
Strings: Steve King
Gut String Guitar: Bill Watson,
Percussion: Bill Watson
Bass Guitar: Bill Watson
Vocals: A.J. Thacker
Arranged, engineered, produced and mixed by Bill Watson
Jesus On My Lips is © 2016 Michael Rourke, posted by permission. If you’re interested in recording this song; using it in a commercial application such as in a movie or on a website; or singing it in a performing situation please let us know and we’ll forward your request to the songwriter and song publisher.
If you have a song you’d like to have a similar sound, please reference this URL in your inquiry to piademos@bellsouth.net
Song Publisher In Nashville Accepting Submissions
Posted: May 1, 2016 Filed under: Music Industry News, Songwriting and Career Promotion, Songwriting Tips, Uncategorized Leave a commentListen Again Music (BMI) located in the Nashville TN area is accepting songs from unpublished songwriters. They are currently in a catalog building phase, songs accepted and contracted will be promoted to major label and independent recording projects as well as film and Television. The “open doors” policy is for a limited time.
Interests are Country, Christian, Rock and Pop.
Extra consideration will be given to performers currently playing the song regularly in a live show.
Also, lump sum purchases of royalty streams and/or copyrights are being offered on songs that charted on the Billboard Top 40 and are no longer earning substantial royalties.
Click here for contact information and more complete information.
Australian Issy Burnup Finds Her Sound At Nashville Trax, Bill Watson Producing
Posted: April 30, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentHailing from Australia, pics of highly talented singer/songwriter Issy Burnup’s recording session yesterday.
Producer Bill Watson, pictured below holding the gifts the Burnup family brought from “the land down under” (Vegemite and a bag made from a kangaroo’s scrotum) says, “We did more than simply cut tracks, I believe we gave Issy a sound that will help her discover her direction as an artist.”
Left: Issy, Bottom Right: Issy’s mother Jennifer, Issy, producer and bass player Bill Watson, Issy’s father Clive. Above right: engineer Shawn Conley, Bill Watson, Steve King keyboards, and father Clive. Playing on the session but not pictured: drummer David Northrup and guitarist Tom Wild.
Awesome session!
Publicity photos of Issy:
Issy Burnup
The Jailbirds from Germany in to record yesterday!
Posted: April 26, 2016 Filed under: Client News, Now Tracking, Studio Services, Uncategorized | Tags: Nashville recording Germany, Nashville recording session Australia Leave a commentFather and son duo, The Jailbirds, flew in from Germany to record 5 songs yesterday for their upcoming album.
Dirk played guitars, bass and percussion while his father, Walther, sang and occasionally added rhythm guitar. Great guys, good players, Walther sings great and somewhat surprisingly, they speak English very well.
What a fun session!. Tracking is complete, the project is ready to mix.
Other upcoming recording sessions with clients coming from overseas include clients from New Zealand (May 1st) and Australia (June 8th).
Hi Bill,
Feel free to post the mixes on the website. They really sound great, thanks again to both Shawn and you.
Best regards from Berlin,
Walther & Dirk
Looking to record a project in the Nashville, TN area? We can book your session, hire any needed Nashville based session musicians, help you arrange hotel accommodations, choose the proper facilities for recording, mixing and mastering each aspect of your project and more. Contact us at e-mail: nashtrax@bellsouth.net
Eesean Bolden Seeking Pop and Hip Hop Songs
Posted: April 13, 2016 Filed under: Song Pitch Opportunity, Uncategorized | Tags: Eesan Bolden Epic Records, Jennifer Lopez, Meghan Trainor, Sony Music Entertainment Leave a commentEesean Bolden , Vice President of A&R at Epic Records, which is part of Sony Music Entertainment is seeking Pop and Hip Hop songs for acts on the Epic roster that have not been released for sale.
Instrumentals or complete songs; rough mixes up to fully mixed and mastered broadcast ready.
Compensation is negotiable.
Ongoing, no deadline.
A partial list of current Epic Artists: Meghan Trainor; Jennifer Lopez; Travis Scott; Jidenna; Wrabel; Future.
- Professionally made demos and masters of unpublished songs may be submitted (with permission) to Listen Again Music (BMI) or PlayItAgainMusicPublishing (ASCAP).
- E-mail your request for permission to submit to: LAMusicPublishing.1@gmail.com
- MP3 only, songs must be unpublished. Lyrics submitted in body of e-mail, no attachments except the MP3. Songwriter and/or co-writers must control copyright 100%.
If your song is accepted you will be asked to sign a single song publishing agreement. There is no charge to the songwriter, the publisher will acquire the publisher’s share of the song and the songwriter retains 100% of the writer’s share.
Play It Again Music Publishing Opens Doors!
Posted: March 30, 2016 Filed under: Christian, Client News, Music Industry News, Song Pitch Opportunity, Songwriting and Career Promotion, Studio News, Uncategorized | Tags: music publishing, Play It Again, play it again music publishing Leave a commentPlay It Again Music Publishing has launched in Nashville!
With Dallas Davidson at the helm and a team of top notch songwriters, this venture is expected to be a huge success. Davidson’s cuts include hits by the likes of Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean and Lady Antebellum. Dabidson has written 30 top ten records and 20 Billboard #1 hits.
Song promotion and publishing is currently available only to songwriters who have an ongoing relationship or staff position with the company.
Runnin’ Out of Moonlight (Billboard Country #1)
Songwriters: Dallas Davidson, Ashley Gorley & Kelley Lovelac
“Miles And Miles” video released. Your song, our production= You Tube success!
Posted: February 24, 2016 Filed under: Christian, Client News, Client News, Music Industry News, Now Tracking, Uncategorized | Tags: Bill Watson, danny thompson, miles and miles, sony Leave a comment
Dan Thompson’s just-released video of the song he wrote for his long haul trucker son who tragically died when he fell asleep and crashed his rig about two months after Dan wrote it. Dan and his band are “lip syncing” and “air guitaring” to the track the Nashville Trax A team played on.
This video was made after Dan’s first trip here to record his vocals on three Dan Thompson penned tunes that producer, Bill Watson, arranged and produced prior.
A simple-to-shoot-and-edit video like this can be posted on You Tube as Dan has done. It’s extremely useful for promotion of your live shows and adding fans to your database, or if you don’t perform, you can monetize the video itself and get paid for the short ads that run each time someone clicks on it. One of our clients has made several of these videos, hiring actors to perform in fairly elaborate videos to the tracks we produce of songs he writes. He has hundreds of thousands of You Tube clicks on several of them and has quite a successful business going.
2-23-16 Bill Watson (center) and Shawn Conley (center) producing/engineering Dan Thompson’s vocals on 5 additional tunes Dan (pictured left, in booth) wrote to complete the album. Dan has one more meeting to hopefully seal a distribution deal through Sony.
Above: Dan Thompson performing at The George Jones Entertainment Complex in downtown Nashville on 2-21-16.
Musicians who played on the music track used in the above video:
Drums and percussion: Jim Riley (Rascal Flatts)
Acoustic and Electric Guitars: Tom Wild, (B.J. Thomas, Mindy McCready, Brenda Lee)
Bass guitar: Bill Watson (producer, Nashville Trax)
Vocals: Dan Thompson
Piano: Ronald Fairchild, (Oak Ridge Boys)
Fiddle: Jenee Fleenor (Blake Shelton, The Voice. Reigning winner of the CMA Touring Musician of th Year Award, Dec. 2015)
Engineers: Bill Watson, Shawn Conley
Produced & Arranged by Bill Watson.
The song and video of “Miles and Miles” is © 2016 Dan Thompson. It’s posted here for demonstration of production values only. Any other use is a violation of U.S. and International copyright laws.
LeAnn Rimes album planned, looking for material.
Posted: February 1, 2016 Filed under: Song Pitch Opportunity, Uncategorized | Tags: LeAnn Rimes Leave a commentBryan Stewart at Curb in Nashville is looking for motivational, upbeat country/popsongs for an upcoming LeAnn Rimes album planned for 2016/2017. No firm deadline has been set at the time of this post.
For direction, check out her last album Spitfire (2013).
- Professionally made demos and masters of unpublished songs may be submitted (with permission) to Listen Again Music (BMI) or PlayItAgainMusicPublishing (ASCAP).
- E-mail your request for permission to submit to: LAMusicPublishing.1@gmail.com
- MP3 only, songs must be unpublished. Lyrics submitted in body of e-mail, no attachments except the MP3. Songwriter and/or co-writers must control copyright 100%.
If your song is accepted you will be asked to sign a single song publishing agreement. There is no charge to the songwriter, the publisher will acquire the publisher’s share of the song and the songwriter retains 100% of the writer’s share.
Click here for additional pitch opportunities
Christian Country Rock Songs Wanted
Posted: January 13, 2016 Filed under: Song Pitch Opportunity, Uncategorized Leave a commentStephen’s Cry, a band based in Kentucky (U.S.A.) is seeking southern rock material with Christian lyrics/message. An independent album release is planned for late 2016.
Send up to two mp3s or web links to:
stephenscry@gmail.com
http://www.stephenscry.com/bio
https://www.facebook.com/stephenscry/
Jim Riley Plays Sessions On Prototype Ludwig Jim Riley Snare! Yours too?
Posted: September 9, 2015 Filed under: Nashville Session Musicians, Uncategorized | Tags: Ludwig Jim Riley Snare Leave a comment
Ludwig’s Jim Riley signature snare is in production, available and Jim Riley himself brought in the prototype today. He played it on a client song demo power ballad titled “Who Knew” and wow, it sounded great!
Of course Jim, a long time member of Rascal Flatts, could likely play on a toy drum kit and sound better than most session drummers.
David Northrup In The House TODAY!
Posted: September 7, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentMeet Nashville session drummer David Northrup (Travis Tritt, Oak Ridge Boys). He was in playing on songs for Nashville Trax and Play It Again Demos clients.
Check out his 6.5x 14 BC Drumworks Ambrosia Maple Solid Stave Snare built by Sean Benz.
Besides playing on demos, masters and performance tracks, David is also one of our Drum Tracks Online drummers.
