Energy, excitement, talent blend for career
The first time I walked into Rocketown Records, I observed what seemed to be an average display of normal, middle-class music business-type working people. As they gave me a quick tour of the workplace, however, I landed at an office completely dark, filled with colorful paintings, religious figurines, a [...]
Archive for the ‘Belmont Vision’ Category
Jimmy Abegg
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Belmont University, Jimmy Abegg on April 16, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Lee Ann Womack
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Belmont University, Lee Ann Womack on March 19, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
From Belmont To Big Time
The soaring soprano was floating over an unmistakable melody as three hundred antsy teenagers awaited their dramatic entrance into adulthood: high school graduation. Chances are the classic strains of the crossover smash I Hope You Dance was soaking up the background at some event in your world not long ago. [...]
Russ Long
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Belmont University, Russ Long on February 27, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Belmont Alum: From Here To . . . Here
May 15th is looming around the corner, posing its teardrop eyes and snarling grin in my direction. After I accept my diploma, cost equivalent of a small home, I don’t know what I will do. Maybe a job will be sitting in my lap. [...]
Chris Rice
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Belmont University, Chris Rice on February 13, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Rice succeeds, shuns celebrity
He walks into Franklin Chick-Fil-A and suburban America goes wild. Middle-aged mothers contain their girlish squeals, children scream and pounce, and the six foot-two man their admiring shrinks to disguise his familiar boyish grin.
With over 1 million in career sales in only six years, his songs being covered by some of [...]
Gavin Degraw
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Belmont University, Gavin Degraw on January 30, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Degraw takes serious look at success
Gavin Degraw’s press kit is the size of my Intellectual Properties textbook. Featuring an oversized reproduction of the album’s front cover, the photograph displays a rugged, unshaven face reminiscent of the Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz while sporting a pouty bottom lip better worn by Justin Timberlake than an old-school [...]
Amy Grant
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Amy Grant, Belmont University, Vince Gill on November 20, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
Vince Gill, Amy Grant usher in holidays
The song is forever engrained in our memories. You know the one. Baby, Baby, I’m taken with the notion. While we were not quite adolescents, girls donning puff paint and head bands, boys proudly showing off their latest paisley jam pants, we knew the lyric and melody, [...]
Maroon 5
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Belmont University, Maroon 5 on November 7, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
Early failure drives Maroon 5
When Maroon 5 played recently at Nashville’s famed Exit/In, the performance revealed a complex mix of influences. And when, Jesse Carmichael, keyboardist and original member of Octone Records’ Maroon 5, pondered the group’s recent success in a conversation at Café Coco, the influences were part of the insights
Kimberley Locke
Posted in Belmont Vision, tagged Belmont University, Kimberly Locke on October 10, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
Locke, Wynonna in concert
Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue . . .
It’s as if the diva herself was crooning history in the house that night. Letting her soulful voice melt all over the all-too familiar chorus of Judy Garland’s classic, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” 2001 Curb School of Music Business graduate, [...]
Taylor Sorensen
Posted in Belmont Vision on September 26, 2003 | Leave a Comment »
Taylor gets national attention
Skip the commercial guitar major. Forget the music business route. Rocketown Records’ newest artist and Belmont senior religion major, Taylor, is anything but conventional. Sitting down with the 22 year-old Adrian, Michigan native in the heart of Christian music, Franklin, TN, last week provided a conversational glimpse into the [...]
