Shane Thompson has been performing professionally since the young age of 16 when he became a member of the world famous Renfro Valley Barn Dance. Following a 4 year stint at Renfro Valley, the lure of the road got the best of Shane. It was then when Shane joined one of Mid-West most popular bands, Inside Out. While a member of Inside Out Shane was able to travel across the United States and several international countries, including Turkey, Greece, Spain, Kuwait, Bahrain, Italy and many more. Following over a decade of touring with Inside Out, Shane relocated to Nashville to further his career goals. Now Shane performs with Several Bands in and around Nashville including his own band Shane Thompson & Rendezvous. Since moving to Nashville Shane has had the honor and privilege of working with and learning from some of the best songwriters in Nashville, in June of 2009 Shane signed with Key-Brothers Music as a staff songwriter.
Hi there! How ya doin’? In short, i’m a very happily married man and have four grown children, which would make them adults, wouldn’t it? I’m a working stiff with my guitars as my tools and a song for whomever will listen. I have an “Official Website” …TwoCentsWorthMusic.com, which is also the name of my BMI affiliated publishing company. I perform downtown Nashville at a marvelous establishment called Rippy’s five times a week with my cohort and partner in crime, Lyle Nordby… best i’ve ever worked with!! We play many different styles, so come enjoy…
You walk into a bar, and there’s this guy on a stool by the window, crouching over his guitar. And you just know he’s going to try to cut through all that noise with something like “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” or “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” anything to grab the crowd’s attention. But this one doesn’t. Instead, with the softest of strums, he eases into a satin-smooth version of Don Williams’ “Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good.” Slowly the chatter at the bar trails off, and heads begin turning his way. Now he’s got them. The singer is Paul Pace, and this is the kind of vocal magic he works every time he performs. To top it all off, he knows country music like a librarian knows books. Two songs later, he’s resurrecting Bobby Bare’s “Tequila Sheila,” a song so seldom heard these days that even Bare has probably forgotten it.
JAMES ROBERT McCOY “J.R. McCOY-The Real….” J.R. Grew up singing with his Grandmother in a small Baptist Church. Unionville Center Ohio: A small farming community that offered hunting, fishing, football and music as entertainment. J.R. credits his close friend (whose daddy was a bluegrass musician) for teaching him to play the guitar when growing up. He worked in bars playing when he wasn’t at Ashland University fulfilling a football scholarship. The week after he graduated from college, he packed up and moved to Nashville. If you can’t find J.R. on tour, you can find him huntin’ squirrel, duck, turkey, deer and rabbit……or catfishin’. His modern day heroes are Jesus Christ and the United States Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force. J.R.’s bloodline is traceable to the original McCoy family. However, what makes him the REAL McCOY is his music and sense of tradition to country music, it’s values, and what it means to the hearts and souls of the American people who listen to it.
I have been lucky enough to make a living writing songs for folks like John Michael Montgomery, Rascal Flatts, Trent Tomlinson, James Otto, Michael Peterson, Steve Holy, David Kersh, Neal McCoy etc. But I believe the real reason I came to Nashville is to “think out loud” with the other “wonderful misfits” that gravitate here!!! My favorite funny quote? Never, never, EVER!…moon a werewolf!!!!!!! My favorite original quote? Sometimes I look so hard at how far I have to go that I can’t see how far I’ve come! (thanks GOD)!
Billy Simon is the most unique and diverse artist to emerge from Music City in decades. His unsurpassed talent in writing and delivering his own material as well as his skillful interpretation of classic standards defines the artist who is Billy Simon.
Billy grew up in Cleveland, Oklahoma thirty miles outside of Tulsa. He performed music at an early age singing in a church quartet. This experience gave him the desire to develop his musical skills. So with the gift of an upright piano, which belonged to his grandmother, he began to teach himself how to play and write songs. After graduating high school, Billy decided it was time to move to Nashville to pursue his true love, music. He quickly signed his first song-writing deal with publishing giant Sony/Tree Music. During his time there, he had over forty songs recorded in the Christian and country market. Near the end of his publishing deal with Sony/Tree, Billy joined the group 4 Runner, touring with Tim McGraw, Blackhawk and Kenny Rogers. In 2002, along with friends and co-writers Mark Hemby and Jimmy Lee Sloas, they formed the band Chester Whyte, which was signed to MCA Records.
Billy has recently signed with Music Mill Entertainment and just completed his first solo CD project. Check out “Billy Simon” to see why his mix of talent and influence delivers the quality and magic of what today’s music should be.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Mansion For Me
2. Shining Path
3. Mother’s Only Sleeping
4. Wicked Path Of Sin
5. The Old Cross Road
6. I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling
7. Remember The Cross
8. Little Community Church
9. Shine Hallelujah
10. That Home Above
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