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‘A Salute To The Songwriters’ Hosted By Luke Bryan Will Feature Jessi Alexander

Mark your calendar: this Saturday night at 8 pm ET, Luke Bryan is hosting a special three-hour show that will air on our station: “BMI Presents: A Salute To The…

‘A Salute To The Songwriters’ Hosted By Luke Bryan Will Feature Jessi Alexander
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Mark your calendar: this Saturday night at 8 pm ET, Luke Bryan is hosting a special three-hour show that will air on our station: “BMI Presents: A Salute To The Songwriters – Benefiting The MusiCares COVID 19 Relief Fund.”

Jessi Alexander is one of the songwriters who will be featured. Alexander is a Nashville songwriter that has written big hits for Blake Shelton, Miley Cyrus, Lee Brice, Tim McGraw, Celine Dion, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Trisha Yearwood, and Ashley Monroe among others.

Alexander, who released her own album Decatur County Red in March of 2020, says, “In Nashville, everybody wants to categorize you as either an ‘artist’ or a ‘writer' but there was never a distinction for me.”

She adds, “A lot of people like to argue what is and isn’t country music, but I think it’s pretty simple. Be real, be raw. That’s country music to me.”

Jessi won both the CMA and ACM Song of the Year honor for 2013's "I Drive Your Truck" by Lee Brice.

Be sure to catch “A Salute to the Songwriters – Benefiting The MusiCares COVID 19 Relief Fund” hosted by Luke Bryan and featuring the songwriters behind some of country music’s biggest hits performing from their homes while telling stories about the creation of the songs.

Other songwriters joining them are Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, Natalie Hemby, Dylan Altman, Clint Daniels, Barry Dean, Luke Dick, Jeff Hyde, Brandon Kinney, Jon Randall and Wynn Varble.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.