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BACKSTAGE NASHVILLE! DAYTIME HIT SONGWRITERS SHOWfeaturing Tim James, Gary Nicholson, Adam Craig& Ray Stephenson+ Julia Hutchinson
Sat, 14 Mar, 12:30 PM CDT
Doors open
11:00 AM CDT
3rd and Lindsley
818 3rd Ave. S, Nashville, TN 37210
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Hear country music’s biggest songs and the stories behind them at DAYTIME hit songwriters show - BACKSTAGE NASHVILLE!
Featuring:
TIM JAMES
- “Love Like Crazy” (Lee Brice)
- “Either Way” (Chris Stapleton and Lee Ann Womack)
- “Give It All We Got Tonight” (George Strait)
- “My List” (Toby Keith)
- “All I Ask For Anymore” (Trace Adkins)
- "Honky Tonk Hall of Fame" (George Strait and Chris Stapleton)
- “It’s Good To Be Us’ (Bucky Covington)
- “Southern Style” (Darius Rucker)
GARY NICHOLSON
- "One More Last Chance” (Vince Gill)
- "Squeeze Me In" (Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood)
- "He Won't Ever Be Gone" (Willie Nelson)
- "She Couldn't Change Me" (Montgomery Gentry)
- "Trouble With The Truth" (Patty Loveless)
- "Worry B Gone” (Chris Stapleton, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson and Kenny Chesney)
- "Lone Star Blues" (George Strait)
- "Sanctuary" (Chip Esteen and Lennon & Maisy from ABC's Nashville)
- "The Reason Why" (Vince Gill)
Adam Craig
- “Close Your Eyes” (Parmalee)
- “Whiskey Sour” (Kane Brown)
- "Take It Like Man" (Cody Johnson)
- “Church Pew Or Bar Stool” (Jason Aldean)
- “Whiskey On My Breath” (Love & Theft)
- “World To Me” (Dustin Lynch)
- “Country Boy Lovin’” (Dillon Carmichael)
- “Give You Mine” (Kelsey Hart)
- “Wastin’ Gas” (Dallas Smith)
- “My First Car” (Meg Patrick)
- “Goes Good With Beer” (Meghan Patrick)
RAY STEPHENSON
- “Hemingway’s Whiskey” (Kenny Chesney, Kris Kristofferson & Guy Clark)
- “Red River Blue” (Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert)
- “Willie’s Guitar” (Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard & John Anderson)
- “Honkytonk Road” (Wade Bowen, Randy Rogers, Cody Canada, Sean McConnell & Walt Wilkins)
- “Magdalene” (Guy Clark, Joe Ely and Kevin Welch)
- “Heroes” (Guy Clark)
- “Leanin’ On A Lonesome Song” (Gord Bamford)
BACKSTAGE NASHVILLE PRE-SHOW FEATURING: JULIA HUTCHINSON (beginning at 12:15 PM)
Doors open at 11 AM. Food and beverages served when the doors open!
Event Information
Age Limit
All Ages

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BACKSTAGE NASHVILLE! DAYTIME HIT SONGWRITERS SHOW
BACKSTAGE NASHVILLE! DAYTIME HIT SONGWRITERS SHOW
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Gary Nicholson
Gary Nicholson
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Gary Nicholson is a number one hit songwriter, two time Grammy winning producer, recording artist, world traveling performer, and session guitarist. He was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2011. There are over six hundred recordings of his songs in various genres including country, rock, blues, folk, bluegrass, and pop by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, BB King, John Prine, Chris Stapelton, Emmylou Harris, Keb Mo, Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, Guy Clark, Vince Gill, Garth Brooks, Billy Joe Shaver, Fleetwood Mac, Marty Stuart, Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, Delbert McClinton, The Dixie Chicks, Dierks Bentley, Patty Loveless, The Mavericks, Wynonna, Trisha Yearwood, Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa, Brad Paisley, Michael McDonald, and the list goes on.
In addition to his two Grammy winning records with Delbert McClinton, he has produced records for Billy Joe Shaver, Marcia Ball, The Judds, Wynonna, Pam Tillis, T Graham Brown, Chris Knight, Seth Walker and many others. As a guitarist he has played live and recorded with Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Asleep at the Wheel, Bobby Bare, Joe Ely, and with Delbert McClinton - participating Delbert’s Sandy Beaches Cruise for twenty five years. His songs have been included in many major motion pictures and television, the song “Falling and Flying" is featured in the Oscar winning film “Crazy Heart” performed by Jeff Bridges.
Recent songwriting credits include the co-written title of Ringo Starr’s release “Give More Love” and the Grammy winning title song of Buddy Guy’s “The Blues is Alive And Well”, also a tribute to Merle Haggard recorded by Willie Nelson, “He Won’t Ever Be Gone”, “Worry B Gone” is featured on Chris Stapleton’s new release.
For more info and complete discography visit garynicholson.com.

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Ray Stephenson
Ray Stephenson
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It is a rare creative soul who can work at the highest artistic levels in two distinct disciplines. Ray Stephenson has just this kind of soul.
Wildly literate, utterly artistic, impossibly ambitious, absolutely a slave to his art, the South Georgian is completely committed to the truth. He is a world class songwriter, recording artist, an intensely captivating live singer, guitar player, record producer & virtuoso painter. Add in the ability to express the uniquely personal in a universal way, and you have a true artist.
Ray Stephenson does exactly that in his paintings, his songwriting & his performances.
As a musician, Ray Stephenson is a Grammy Award winning, Platinum selling singer/songwriter from Nashville, TN. His successes include winning CCMA Songwriter of the Year in 2013, writing the title track of Kenny Chesney’s album Hemingway’s Whiskey, and writing the Blake Shelton/Miranda Lambert duo and album title track, Red River Blue. Both reached #1 on the Billboard Album Charts and were certified Platinum. Some of the most revered and iconic legends in Country Music have recorded his music, including Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Merle Haggard. He’s been a part of 4 Grammy nominated projects and 1 Grammy winning project (Guy Clark’s final recording, My Favorite Picture Of You, which brought home the Grammy “Best Folk Album” in 2015).
As a painter, Ray's paintings are hanging in the homes of collectors like Willie Nelson and Oprah Winfrey. In 2012, Ray became the Official Painter of the Monsters of Rock Tour. He’s been featured at the Bluebird Cafe, Ascend Amphitheater, Nashville Airport, the Country Music Hall of Fame ,Gaylord Hotels, Aloft Hotel, 3rd and Lyndsley, CMT and Two Old Hippies. He's had feature articles in Nashville Arts & Southwest Georgia Living magazines.
His paintings explore his love of color, texture, music & nature. Ray’s artistic influences are found in the paintings of Odd Nerdrum, Gustav Klimpt, Rembrandt and Andrew Wyeth. His fine art is highly sought after by art collectors & is a part of several prestigious private collections. He has exhibited his work in Nashville, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Atlanta, & the US Virgin islands.


