Friday night at Tin Pan South with Anthony Smith, Clint Daniels, Lance Miller and Jamie Paulin.
Anthony Smith:A super songwriter and producer extraordinaire. He kicked off his segment with his chart topper hit for Lonestar, ‘What About Now.’ Anthony’s string of hits include ‘I Want My Life Back’ for Bucky Covington, ‘Watch This’ for Clay Walker and ‘It’s Too Late to Worry’ by Jo Dee Messina. Anthony ended with the super hit, ‘Tomorrow,’ that he co-wrote with Frank Myers and Chris Young. It appeared on Chris’s album ‘Neon.’ The song sold 30,000 digital downloads in its first week of release!
Clint Daniels: Clint has been a mainstay in Music City since 1993, when he signed to Arista Records. He is an artist, songwriter and co-producer. As the night made its final round, Clint finished with his first No. 1 hit that he wrote with three other dudes (Donny Kees, Blake Mevis, Randy Boudreaux) over a bottle of Crown Royal. ‘Brokenheartsville’ was Joe Nichols first No. 1 single chart topper!
Note: Clint has penned Number One singles for Montgomery Gentry, as well as a Top 20 hit ,“God Must Be Busy,” for Brooks & Dunn and cuts by Easton Corbin, Jon Pardi and Josh Thompson.
Lance Miller:Lance began his segment with the song, ‘Drink To That All Night,’ Jerrod Niemann’s chart hit. Lance said, “On this next one, Eddie sang this song on Montgomery Gentry’s ‘Crazies Welcome’.” Wow what a hit! Lance did it justice as the co-writer, along with Jessi Alexander, Brett and Brad Warren. I’m going straight home and listen and buy the MG version.
Knowing Lance for all these years and seeing his success with ‘Real Men Love Jesus’ for Michael Ray and Lee Brice’s ‘Beautiful Every Time’ and Thomas Rhett’s ‘Beer With Jesus’ make me proud to call him a friend! I know HOW HARD he worked to achieve this success! It’s a 10 year town for sure.
Jamie Paulin:When he made his way into the circle, Jamie sang his song ‘Backwoods’ that Justin Moore cut. He co-wrote it with Justin and Jeremy Stover. Jamie also sang the song that Tim McGraw cut: ‘How I’ll Always Be.’ Jamie co-wrote the song with Chris Janson and Jeremy Stover and it is one of my Favvvvorites!!! Jamie ended on ‘Her World or Mine’ that he co-wrote with Travis Denning and Brett Breavers. A very moving song about a painful split, but an incredible heartfelt song.
All in all, another memorable Tin Pan South night of great music and stories from four masters of the art of songwriting.