Nashville Scene

From Reidsville, North Carolina, Debi Champion began singing with cousins and friends in her home state, then as a solo performer and later with duo's and bands all over NC, SC, Georgia, Virginia, and Maryland. She then moved to South Florida in 1976. Debi's unique blend of country, rock, and jazz made her one of the area's favorite entertainers. In 1978 she won the Mark Allen Critic's Choice Award for "Best Female Vocalist" and in 1985 she won the South Florida Music Award for "Best Rock/Pop/Blues Female Vocalist". Debi has appeared in concert with such diverse artists as Spyro Gyra, Bob James, Leon Russell, Dan Seals, The Dirt Band, Gary Morris, Kris Kristopherson, Restless Heart, Suzi Boggus, Dave Mason, Marshall Tucker Band, Ronnie Milsap, Three Dog Night, The Bama Band, and Mark O'Conner. She also toured as a back-up vocalist with Miami Dolphin, Tim Foley, and sang with the Miami Symphony.

Debi now lives in Kingston Springs, outside of Nashville, where she does demo session work, back-up vocals for different artists, and writes songs, some of which you may have heard on HBO or Showtime. She also serves as hostess for songwriter showcases every Tues, Wed, and Thurs night at the Commodore Grill in Nashville. She currently performs at the Commodore, the Bluebird, and at special events.

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Jerry was born in a log house in a town with a population of 59. He was raised on music and hard work and from age 9, he traveled beside his father and their team of mules, raising cotton and corn. While at school, he earned extra cents by selling poems to his school seniors. His father had bought him a guitar at age 5 and taught him to play a few chords and soon Jerry was taking part in the family get-togethers. A natural performer, he eventually hit the road and earned money as a picker. Then he went to Parris Island and spent two months learning how to become a Marine. He formed a local group and played weekends.

He began putting melodies to his poems and this led to a recording deal, in 1958, with the Houston-based Backbeat label. Foster’s popularity began to grow, and he secured his first TV series on WSAF Savannah, Georgia. He then moved to KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, with his own show and also as talent booker.

Jerry had his first cut in 1968, when Charley Pride recorded The Day The World Stood Still, which reached the Top 5, and followed it up with the Top 3 hit, The Easy Part’s Over, the latter earning the first of their two BMI awards. The following year, Jeannie C. Riley had a Top 40 success with The Back Side Of Dallas. In 1970, Stan Hitchcock had back-to-back hits with Call Me Gone and Dixie Belle. However, that same year, Mel Tillis had a Top 5 with Heaven Everyday.

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Steve Dean was raised in Little Rock on a steady diet of Beatles, Byrds and Eagles with early influences of Buck Owens, Roger Miller and Johnny Cash. After earning a degree in Advertising from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Steve moved to Nashville to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a hit songwriter.

Steve has co-written 6 #1 hits, "Watching You" for Rodney Atkins, "Round About Way" for George Strait, "Southern Star" for Alabama, "Walk On" for Reba McEntire, "It Takes A Little Rain" for the Oak Ridge Boys and "Hearts Aren't Made To Break" for Lee Greenwood.

Steve's first single "Don't Your Mem'ry Ever Sleep At Night" was recorded by Steve Wariner in 1983. Other hits include "Fast Lanes and Country Roads" for Barbara Mandrell, "Just Enough Rope" for Rick Trevino, "One Bridge I Didn't Burn" for Conway Twitty, "The More I Learn" for Ronna Reeves and "Cool To Be A Fool" for Joe Nichols. "Cool To Be A Fool" and "Watching You" have earned Bethar Music, Steve's publishing company, BMI Publisher awards. To date, Steve has earned 10 BMI awards.

Other artists who have cut Steve's songs include Waylon Jennings, Billy Dean, Ronnie Milsap, Kenny Rogers, Pure Prairie League, Craig Morgan, The Roys, Dierks Bentley, John Michael Montgomery, Lee Ann Womack, Point of Grace, Neal McCoy and Ty Herndon.

Steve is a performing songwriter doing "In The Round" shows around the country. "Being a singer/songwriter is the best of both worlds", Steve says. "I can take my music to the people in it's purest form."

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Lisa Shaffer is a country music artist and songwriter. She was signed to a major label record deal with Disney's Lyric Street Records and has had many compositions licensed and recorded by other artists. Her first number one on the ’Music Roots Charts’ is a song that was recorded by DARIN AND BROOKE ALDRIDGE called “I Thought I’d Seen It All”. This song has been nominated for a SPBGMA Award. Darin and Brooke recorded another song entitled “Corn” which was included on the same album. RHONDA VINCENT cut a song of Lisa's and released it as both a single and video. The song was entitled “I’ve Gotta Start Somewhere”. It was the first time she got to see a song of hers turned into a video that was played on CMT and GAC. Australian country artist KRISTY COX cut a song of hers called “It’s Hard To Stop A Heart (When It Starts Breaking)” which climbed to #4 on the ’Country Tracks Top 30’ Chart. The music video was released to the Country Music Channel (CMC) in Australia and spent 13 weeks as a top 30 video. COLT FORD cut and released a song called “Hip Hop In A Honky Tonk”. This is his current single and has been released on video to CMT and GAC! It’s on Colt’s new album ’Chicken & Biscuits’ which debuted on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart at #8 and has sold over 140,000 units to date. GMA Dove Award winners, JEFF & SHERI EASTER recently recorded another song of Lisa's entitled “I Know I Love You”. It is on their ’Expecting Good Things’ album. This record has been nominated for a Grammy! This same record has been nominated for a Dove Award as well. Lisa also has a song, "Mt.View Missionary Baptist Church," recorded on Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's latest record that has been nominated for a Dove Award also! She has also had cuts with Rounder Records recording artists BRADLEY WALKER, DAILEY & VINCENT, and NEW FOUND ROAD.

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Bill Whyte's unique presentation of funny and twisted songs blended into his stand-up routine makes him a favorite everywhere he entertains. His radio background makes him the perfect emcee for package shows and corporate events.

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I am from Canada but have been in Nashville for 16 years. I have played music all of my life. I perform as a song-writer playing acoustic guitar or as a vocalist in country music, blues and jazz. God, Family , Friends and Music. That's me!

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A self-taught guitarist, Ed Coffey began playing and singing at the age of five. Born in Rochester, NY, he and his family moved to the Southern-tier of New York when he was thirteen years old and also lived in Canadice, NY. Ed's greatest inspiration comes from his parents, Bud and Yvonne. His music draws from his own experiences and those of the people closest to him. Brought up listening to Hank Senior, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Loretta Lynn and Johnny Cash. He started writing his own material in his teens and has developed his own style of playing, writing, and singing. His deep soulful voice gives his music heart and soul. The songs and music he's crafted make a true connection with his audience. Over the years Ed has been in a number of different bands including The Ed Coffey Band, Angels And Outlaws, Cimarron, Moore Coffey Band, Stryker, Hazy Daze and Wild Nik West. He's performed for many charity concerts and has played in clubs a crossed the USA and Canada, also appeared on TV and radio station programs.

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Kenan Boyle was eleven when he stumbled upon his future. It was 1987, ten years after Elvis died, when a picture of the legend caught the fifth-grader’s eye. But musical tastes evolve, and boys eventually come of age with their own, internal compass. Plinking on the baby-grand piano at home and then picking up a guitar, soon music by the likes of Rodney Crowell, George Ducas, Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings and Chris Isaak were guiding, if not pulling, Boyle to his personal magnetic north. Since then, home for Boyle has been Nashville, where he knew he had to scuffle and take his lumps and triumphs if he were to fully mature as an artist. He left home with one more piece of advice — no, consider it marching orders. It came from none other than one of his earliest inspirations, Rodney Crowell, whom Boyle met backstage after Crowell performed at the Lobero Theater. “I told Rodney I was getting ready to move to Nashville and I asked if he had any advice for me,” Boyle recalls. Crowell’s response: “Be honest to the music and give ’em hell.” And that Boyle is doing, gaining a following among audiences and kingmakers alike. Songwriter, artist and friend Davis Raines describes Boyle’s music as “apocalyptic." It’s a word that to Boyle means a “foreboding of imminent disaster” as well as being “wildly unrestrained.” Raines just says this: “Kenan Boyle, just a lad but already writing like he was 80 and busting with stage presence. A real heartbreaker and musicmaker, this guy, and he’s got that look in his eye.”

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Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Don has based in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Nashville, for different periods of his career. He's been a touring musician, an actor in theatre, television, and film. He is known in Nashville as a songwriter, with a local songwriter's television program, "Writers in the Round with Don McNatt and Freinds" He feels fortunate to have shared the TV program, and the writer's stages in Nashville, with some of Nashville's most succesful and respected songwriters. He says this is one of the best periods of his life, right now. He married Karen McNatt about 4 years ago, and they've been able to share the songs they write with each other, and have had the opportunity to play in spots around the world. They love to play in Nashville, but over the last couple of years they've been seen in Berlin, London, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Bermuda, and Amsterdam. Sometimes they are called simply Don and Karen McNatt, and on some occasions, they've been referred to as "The Macs". They plan on continuing to travel, but more by land, and in the USA. They are booking now for Spring and Summer, and looking for venues aimed at grown ups. A young crowd is fun, but a good portion of the material will be aimed at Boomers, because they are even more fun. The New CD called "Don and Karen McNatt - Better Late than Never", expresses love and happiness over 40.

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I am having the best time of my life writing and performing my original music along with my husband of 4 years Don McNatt. I inherited a love for music from my incredibly talented musical family. My father was a writer and played every stringed musical instrument including pickin" the guitar Chet Atkins style. My brothers and sisters all play and sing harmony. I sang in church and played and sang at home or weddings mostly until meeting Don who encouraged me to get out and play my music at writers nights. There I found I enjoyed performing and people seemed to enjoy my music. That alone improved me as a writer and singer. My husband Don McNatt is an accomplished writer and guitar picker and sings great harmony and lead vocals. Our duets of love songs are some of our favorite songs to do. Don was raised in Memphis and played with some of the great blues artists and therefore developed an awesome soul style that can recreate the 60"s soul music and sound we all love. Some of the most fun we have is doing the songs from the 60's and 70's from a style long gone by most atists but not forgtten by our age group. We hope to appeal to a large audience of baby boomers who love to reminisce and enjoy their favorite music. I was blessed with five children: son Barry Dean, and four daughters Heidi Dean, Vanessa Dean, Valerie Dean and Alison Dean. They in turn have blessed me with nine, count 'em nine of the most beautiful grandkids on the planet! They have given me inspiration and lots of writing material. I want to leave them with lots of musical memories and a legacy they will pass on to all their offspring. My mother and father never got to hear my music so it is really important to me that I give my kids the chance to at least hear my heart through my music. I want them to know me. They are great kids that will go on to do great things.

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Country Music's hottest new trio- Room 31! The unique voices of Jenny Slate Lee, Ryan Greenawalt and Victoria Venier combined with their sweet acoustic sound packs a powerful punch. Hit songs, killer harmonies and amazing live shows make this new group the next big hit!

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