Steven Dale Jones is best known for writing hits such as "One More Day" by Diamond Rio, "Singles You Up" by Jordan Davis, "10,000 Angels" by Mindy McCready, "He Gets That From Me" by Reba McEntire, "That's A Man" by Jack Ingram, "She Wants to be Wanted Again" by Ty Herndon, and "Little Things" by Tanya Tucker. Steven has also had songs recorded by Bonnie Raitt,  Alabama,  George Strait,  Brett Young,  John Legend,  Cassandra Wilson,  Trace Adkins,  Randy Travis,  JoDee Messina,  Josh Turner,  Stephen Bishop,  John Waite,  Craig Morgan,  Kenny Rogers,  Englebert Humperdinck,  Mitchell Tenpenny,  Point of Grace,  Lee Greenwood,  John Michael Montgomery,  Sammy Kershaw,  Pam Tillis,  Doug Stone,  Billy Dean,  Darryl Worley,  Chely Wright,  Linda Davis,  Russ Taff, Daryle Singletary,  Dobie Gray,  Deryl Dodd,  Michael English and the Gaither Vocal Band, Terry McBride,  Larry Stewart,  Michelle Wright,  T. G. Shepperd,  Georgia Middleman,  The Isaacs,  Moe.,  Steve Holy,  Hot Apple Pie,  Mark Wills,  Love and Theft,  Forester Sisters, Jeff & Sheri Easter,  Andy Childs, Carolyn Dawn Johnson,  Eddy Arnold,  Aaron Lines, Gibson Miller Band and others. Selling over 20 Million Albums, this GRAMMY, ACM, CMA nominated songwriter has won a DOVE Award, 9 ASCAP Awards, had songs included in Film, ABC, CBS, NBC, NETFLIX series, and co-authored the book "One More Day: Making Every Day Count". After spending 5 years writing for FAME in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Steven spent 25 years on Music Row in Nashville writing for several publishers - including Island Bound, BMG/Malloy Boys, Warner Chappell, Sony, and Curb/Word. As a performer, he's played at The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville dozens of times, The Bitter End in New York City several times, Sundance Utah and songwriter festivals and venues in California, Las Vegas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Dakota, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Texas. 

Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Charles “Chip” Esten was raised in Alexandria, VA and attended T.C. Williams High School (made famous in the film “Remember the Titans.”) He then attended The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, where he graduated with a degree in economics and met his wife, Patty. While in Williamsburg, he was lead singer/songwriter in a popular local band. Esten made his theatrical debut in London when he portrayed Buddy Holly, singing, acting and playing guitar in the hit West End musical “Buddy.” In that role he was honored to perform for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and eventually President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush at The White House. He was also very honored to perform with Jerry Allison and Joe B. Mauldin, Buddy’s original hitmaking bandmates, the Crickets. It was during his run as Buddy that Esten first appeared on the original British version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” with Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops. When “Whose Line” came to ABC, he became a recurring cast member and frequent song improvisor. Since then he has appeared on Drew Carey’s Improvaganza and toured frequently, performing live improv shows with Stiles, Proops and Jeff B. Davis.  Esten’s many early television credits include recurring roles on “Big Love,” “Enlightened,” “The Office” and “ER.” Besides being the father on Disney Channel’s “Jessie,” he has been a Klingon on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” a secretary on “Murphy Brown” and Kelly Bundy’s fiance on the series finale of “Married with Children.” His film credits include “Swing Vote,” “Thirteen Days,” “61*” and “The Postman.” Esten has been honored to perform across the US, UK, and Germany for the past several years, including the Grand Ole Opry, the historic Ryman auditorium and the Royal Albert Hall.  In addition, he has performed at festivals including Stagecoach, the CMAs, Route 91, C2C, and CMC.  He looks forward to resuming touring this summer. His most recent single “Sweet Summer Saturday Night” was released in August 2020.  He continues to write and record music with over 9.5 million streams to date, earning a Guinness World Record in 2017 for releasing 54 original songs (available on iTunes, and on Spotify) once a week, for 54 consecutive weeks. Charles is an active Musicians On Call board member and volunteer, regularly performing for patients and caregivers in hospitals, hospice centers, and VA facilities. With live performances being mostly cancelled in 2020, the singer-songwriter, actor and performer has instead performed a regular online Quarantine Live Stream concert to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, where he has served as an honorary spokesperson for the past 8 years. 

Former Bluebird Cafe bartender Mark Irwin co-wrote Alan Jackson's first number one hit "Here In The Real World", a two time CMA Song of the Year nominee and winner of the Music City News’ Award for Song of the Year 1990.  As well as having songs on Alan Jackson's more recent CD “DRIVE” and Garth Brooks' “THE LOST SESSIONS”, Mark co-wrote the singles, "Bama Breeze" for Jimmy Buffet and "That's How They Do It In Dixie" for Hank WIlliams Jr. (featuring Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich and Van Zandt).   Recently, Mark was a co-writer of the Tyler Farr number one hit single "Redneck Crazy", Thomas Rhett’s "Front Porch Junkies" and had 3 songs on the Tim McGraw CD "Two Lanes of Freedom"…including the number one hit song "Highway Don't Care", featuring Taylor Swift on guest vocals and Keith Urban on guitar.   Mark is also cowriter of Tim McGraw's recent single "Looking For That Girl" and Blake Shelton's number one hit single, "Neon Light". Mark’s latest single was Chris Janson's "Power of Positive Drinking"   A list of other artists who have recorded Mark’s songs are:                   Randy Travis, Martina McBride, George Jones, Faith Hill, Lee Brice, Thomas Rhett Julianne Hough, Bomshel, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jessie James, Tracey Lawrence, Sammy Kershaw, Chely Wright, Patty Loveless, Highway 101, The Whites, Chris LeDoux, Bucky Covington, Glen Campbell, Neal McCoy, The Dirt Drifters, Jaida Dreyer, Dakota Bradley and Austin Webb. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow also recorded one of Mark’s songs for her movie “Country Strong” costarring Tim McGraw.    Recently, Mark had a song on Blake Shelton’s newest CD “If I’m Honest” called "Bet You Still Think About Me", also a song on new artist Drake White’s CD called "Story." And at present Mark is working with a number of young, signed Country Music artists….

Stephony Smith, BMI’s 1998 Songwriter of the Year, began her professional songwriting career in Memphis, Tennessee writing commercial jingles for a major advertising agency. From 1981 to 1988, she wrote more than 4,000 local, regional, and national radio and television spots and won 20 Addy Awards. Stephony also wrote and performed jingles as a solo vocalist for major clients including McDonalds, Dodge Trucks, the Agricultural Council of America, and Carolina Telephone. Memphis is her hometown and the reason Stephony loves all kinds of music, from Soul R&B, Motown, Singer/songwriters, to Pop-Rock. Memphis embraced all genres and her jingle career allowed her to write it all. After signing with Chips Moman/Chappell Music she got to work with the likes of Al Green, Willie Nelson, Ringo Star, Toni Wine, Carl Perkins, Bobby Emmons and J.R. Cobb. Being surrounded by the people that penned, “Do Right Woman, “Luckenbach,Texas”, “Groovy Kind Of Love”, “Spooky” and “Stormy”, had a profound effect on her. The education she received from those masters about songwriting, singing background vocals and production is priceless. So Memphis music without a doubt is in the heart of everything she writes and sings. Stephony moved to Nashville in 1989 and by the middle of that year landed her first publishing deal with Polygram Publishing, now Universal. To date, Stephony has had cuts by a number of award winning artists including, The Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, Barbara Streisand, Kenny Chesney, Montgomery Gentry, Terri Clark, Martina McBride, and the legendary Reba McEntire. Tim McGraw’s performance with his wife Faith Hill of “It’s Your Love”, written solely by Stephony, stayed at #1 on the singles chart for six weeks, and was the most played single of 1997. Shortly after, Reba McEntire took “How Was I To Know” all the way to #1. Trisha Yearwood spent two weeks at #1 on the charts with “Perfect Love”, and Chad Brock brought “Yes” to the #1 seat for three weeks. Kenny Chesney took “Big Star” to the number two slot in 2004 and Tim McGraw blistered up the charts to #1 with “Back When” in early 2005. Stephony wrote “Johnny and June” by Curb artist Heidi Newfield (formerly of Trick Pony). This song went into the top 10 in 2009 and was nominated for The Academy of Country Music’s song of the year. “Johnny and June” marks her first release as a writer/sole-publisher. Stephony is a popular background vocalist on master recording sessions for various artists, demo sessions, and live performances. Album credits include Shelly Fairchild, Lari White, Chad Brock, Jo Dee Messina, Chelly Wright, and Terri Clark. She has also appeared as a background vocalist for a number of artists on television shows such as: The Tonight Show, Nashville Now (Music City Tonight), Crook and Chase, On Stage, American Music Shop, and Hee Haw.