CHRIS TOMPKINS

Chris Tompkins has experienced no lack of success since his

arrival in Nashville. After moving from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Tompkins received his first publishing deal at the age of 22 with Little House Music, and he
started working with Big Loud Shirt in 2006. His first Top 20 single came soon
after his first deal with Rachel Proctors release of Me And Emily, and in 2006,
his song Before He Cheats by Carrie Underwood controlled the country charts.
Not only did it achieve #1 on every country chart and hold its position for five
consecutive weeks, but it achieved ASCAP Song of the Year in 2007, Country
Song of the Year at the 2008 Grammys and was the first country song to have
over two million digital download sales.
Tompkins achieved multiple other #1 singles with songs including Chris Youngs
Voices, Luke Bryans Drunk On You, Dierks Bentleys Drunk On A Plane,
FGLs Anything Goes, Carrie Underwoods Blown Away.
In 2013, The Grammys named Blown Away the Country Song Of The Year, and
the following year, Drunk On A Plane was proclaimed one of the Songs I Wish
Id Written at the NSAI Awards.
Amongst innumerable artists to have cut his songs, some include Rascal Flatts,
Gary Allan, Blake Shelton, Eli Young Band, Jimmy Buffett and Hank Williams,
Jr. With over 15 #1s and years of success, the writer of Burnin It Down,
Helluva Life and Sure Be Cool If You Did continues to
experience success that he shares with his wife, Jessica, son and daughter.

CRAIG WISEMAN
Craig Wiseman is one of country musics most renowned, talented and
distinguished writers. From his early days of writing and drumming in
Hattiesburg, Mississippi to being crowned Songwriter of the Century by ASCAP,
he has indeed created for himself a monumental platform in the history of
country music. As the writer of songs including Brooks and Dunns Believe to
Blake Sheltons Boys Round Here, Wiseman has amassed over 300 cuts,
100 singles, and 26 #1s.
In 1990, Wiseman signed his first publishing deal with Almo/Irving Music, and
ten years later, he signed with BMG Music Publishing. In 2003, Wiseman opened
his own publishing company, and within the first year of the independent
companys operation, Wiseman experienced the first single of the catalog;
Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw not only peaked at the top of the
charts for ten weeks, but it also was named NSAI Song of the Year, CMA Song of
the Year, ACM Song of the Year and won the Grammy Award for Best Country
Song. Big Loud Shirt Publishing is now home to several of Nashvilles top country
songwriters including Rodney Clawson, Chris Tompkins, Sarah Buxton, Matt
Dragstrem, and the Warren Brothers.
Wisemans success continued to escalate at exponential levels. Not only was he
proclaimed ASCAPs Songwriter of the Year in 2003, 2005, and 2007 and Writer
of the Year by NSAI and Music Row in 1997, but he was impressively named
NSAIs Songwriter of the Decade in 2009 and won the 2014 Heritage Award
from ASCAP as the most performed country songwriter of the
century. Although these accomplishment are nothing less than extraordinary,
Wisemans talents and endeavors do not only pertain to the field of songwriting.
For the past 12 years, Wiseman has hosted The Stars of Second Harvest Show at
the Ryman, showing his philanthropic heart and giving all proceeds to the Second
Harvest Food Bank Of Middle Tennessee. To date, this concert event has raised
$1,000,000 for the food bank. After years of success, accomplishments and hard
work, Wiseman was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
in October 2015.