Johnny Clawson is a Nashville-based songwriter and artist from Leesburg, Virginia. Signed to SMACK Songs in 2022, Clawson co-wrote Blake Shelton’s record-breaking Top 10 single, “Texas,” as well as Ella Langley’s hit single “weren’t for the wind.” Other credits include tracks by Lauren Alaina, Chris Young, Seaforth, Jon Pardi, Josh Ross, Michael Ray, and more. His own releases, including “Time Is Money,” have earned significant recognition, including a feature on Bobby Bones’ Top 30 Countdown.

Kyle Sturrock is a promising up and coming songwriter in the Nashville scene. Raised in Connecticut, he earned a Finance degree at Ohio State and worked a corporate finance job until 2018, when he decided to quit and move to Nashville to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a country songwriter. After several years of bartending, serving, and writing hundreds of songs, he signed his first publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing in April 2022. Since then, he's had songs cut by artists such as Chris Young, Jon Pardi, Matt Schuster and Teddy Robb, and written countless more with writers like Craig Wiseman, Tim Nichols and Lee Miller, to name a few. Now in his second year of his publishing deal, he continues to write every day, working to hone his craft and push for unique melodies and lyrical depth in every single song.  

With his father in southern gospel quartet‘s, two sisters leading worship, a brother touring the country with black metal and punk groups and a mother who sang in the choir every Sunday, music was always a prominent part of Matt McKinney‘s upbringing in Augusta, Georgia. Riding his first songs at 11 years old, McKinney quickly fell in love with country music through the inspiration of artist such as Alan Jackson, George strait and favorite vocal group Diamond Rio. Two days after graduating from the University of Georgia McKinney moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a career in songwriting. In 2020, Matt was introduced to Anna weisband and Rusty Gaston through Leslie Roberts at BMI whom he credits for Lanningham his first publishing deal at Sony music publishing Nashville. In his two years at the company McKinney landed cuts with artists including Jordan Davis, Elle King, Jimmie Allen, Kidd G, Kolby Cooper, Ella Langley and Trey Lewis with his first platinum single “DDID”.