Mike Reid received his degree in music from Penn State University in 1970. But that achievement was considerably overshadowed by his reputation on the football field. At Penn State he was an All-America selection and won the Outland Trophy as the country's outstanding collegiate lineman. He was the first-round draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals that year and at the end of his first season in the NFL, was named Defensive Rookie Of The Year.  Reid's success continued when he was voted NFL All-Pro in 1972 and '73. In spite of these honors, Reid decided he would rather play music than football for a living. He retired from the Bengals and in 1980, moved to Nashville to pursue song writing. Since 1983 when Mike Reid scored his first number one country hit song "Inside" by Ronnie Milsap, he has composed more than 30 top ten country and pop hits. Twenty-one of those records have gone all the way to number one on the charts. He has been the recipient of ASCAPS' "Songwriter of the Year" award and one of the many songs that Milsap recorded, "Stranger In My House", has earned a Grammy award.    In addition to Milsap, Reid has had his songs recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Anita Baker, Bette Midler, Prince, George Michael, Nancy Wilson, Etta James, Kenny Rogers, Ann Murray, Wynonna Judd, Alabama, Joe Cocker, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Collin Raye and Tim McGraw. Among the songs that Mike has composed are "I Can't Make You Love Me" (Raitt, Michael and Prince), "My Strongest Weakness" and "To Be Loved By You" (Judd), "In This Life" (Raye and Midler), "Sometimes I Wonder Why" (Baker), "Forever's As Far As I'll Go" (Alabama) and "Everywhere" (McGraw). In 1992, Reid composed the score for "Quilts", a modern dance piece created by Andrew Krichels and Donna Rizzo of The Tennessee Dance Theatre. Following the premiere, Reid, Krichels and Rizzo received The Governor's Award for the Arts in Tennessee for their work on "Quilts."  In addition, Reid was commissioned by the Kandinsky Trio of Roanoke, Virginia to write a piece for piano trio and storyteller. The piece, entitled "The Cantankerous Blacksmith," premiered in the fall of 1995 and continues to be part of the Kandinsky's touring repertoire. Reid has collaborated with librettist Sarah Schlesinger on a one-act opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and Opera Memphis that explores the myth of celebrity in contemporary American sports.    The opera, entitled "Different Fields", received its premiere in New York City at the New Victory Theatre on Broadway.  "Different Fields" has since been produced in Memphis and Nashville and by The Cincinnati Opera. Reid and Schlesinger's musical entitled "The Ballad of Little Jo" received a 1998 Richard Rodgers Foundation Award and its first production in September 2000 at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater won the Joseph Jefferson award for Best New Musical. It has also been produced at the Bridewell Theater in London. Currently it is in development at The Public Theater in New York City. Reid's composition "Eye of The Blackbird", a setting for piano trio and soprano of Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", was given its world premiere in Roanoke, Virginia by the Kandinsky Trio and soprano Elizabeth Weigle.    Shortly thereafter, the group performed the piece at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. His latest work, a setting of the Billy Collins poem “The Night House” for piano trio and soprano received its premier pearformance by The Kandinsky trio and Miss Weigle in December of 2007.  Presently, Mike divides his time between Nashville and New York City with his wife and their children. He is currently at work writing songs as well as composing the score for the musical "Casanova Returns" slated for a workshop in Australia in 2010.

Aaron Raitiere is a lyricist, performer, and visual artist from Danville, Kentucky.  He shared a 2019 Grammy for co-writing “I’ll Never Love Again” with Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsay, and Natalie Hemby for A Star Is Born. (He co-wrote it in about 30 minutes on his first-ever trip to Los Angeles.) He’s also placed cuts with Miranda Lamber, Ashley McBryde, Lori McKenna, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Lone Bellow, Randy Rojers Band, Chris Shiflett, Midland, Brent Cobb, Shooter Jennings and more. When a few friends offered to make a debut record on him, Raitiere simply agreed to go along with it. In the four years since that first session for what would become Single Wide Dreamer, the auspicious project has retained its casual charm even as its guest list gradually expanded. Anderson East and Miranda Lambert, who co-produced the album, now appear alongside Nashville musicians like Dave Cobb, Natalie Hemby, Ashley Monroe, and Waylon Payne, as well as Robert Randolph, Foy Vance, and Bob Weir.

Hailing from the small town of Ball Ground, Georgia, and now pursuing a bachelor's degree in songwriting at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, Elliott Prather is a young independent country singer-songwriter sharing his love of music with crowds of fans and new faces most weekends. 
 At an early age, Prather realized that "life's too short to not make good music." 
 He goes into every songwriting session, every performance with this thought in mind. 
 Prather began playing gigs around his hometown at the age of 17, learning the ins and outs of being a "professional jukebox." It wouldn't be until two years later when he would finally get the chance to share his original songs with a larger audience with the release of his first album on May 15, 2020. 
rather’s music is propelled by a neo-traditional country-rock production and insightful lyrics covering a variety of topics including his back and forth relationship with music, thoughtful storytelling, and his desire to cherish the little things in life. 
 These themes are evident in songs like "Music Man," "Hard Work," and "While I Still Can." 
 Even in an intimate, acoustic setting, Prather's message still powers through with his passion and love for performing and songwriting. 
 "I just want to make and play good music, and I want to invite people to join me."