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Top 10 Super Country Hits - September 23rd, 2007 - 38th Survey - Fifth Year
songs rated based on points system from radio and tv play

Artist/Song

    * 1 - Toby Keith - Love Me If You Can
    * 2 - Brad Paisely - Online
    * 3 - Reba McEntire with Kelly Clarkson - Because of You
    * 4 - Rascal Flatts - Take Me There
    * 5 - Luke Bryan - All My Friends Say
    * 6 - Dierks Bentley - Free & Easy
    * 7 - Kenny Chesney - Don't Blink
    * 8 - LeAnn Rimes - Nothin Better To Do
    * 9 - Sara Evans - As If
    * 10 - Garth Brooks - More Than A Memory

Hot Rising Single
Faith Hill - Red Umbrella

Keep An Eye On Single
Dolly Parton - Better Get To Livin


Mike Curb Family Foundation, Belmont University and the Nashville 
Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation Partner to Celebrate the Songwriter


Partnership Plans for 34 Music Square East to Honor Past, Present and Future 
of Songwriting in Nashville


NASHVILLE, TENN. (September 20, 2007)-- The Mike Curb Family Foundation, 
Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University 
and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation announced a major new 
partnership designed to create visibility and understanding for the 
foundation of the music industry - songwriting.  Through the generosity of 
the Curb Family Foundation and its commitment to preserve the history of the 
music industry in Nashville, a new songwriting major in the Curb College and 
the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame both have a permanent home on Music 
Row.


Located in the historic building at 34 Music Square East, former home of the 
Quonset Hut, Columbia Studio A, Columbia and Epic Records and Sony Music 
Nashville, songwriting students at Belmont will have front row seats to the 
thriving music industry of today, as well as its history.  The Nashville 
Songwriters Hall of Fame will become the first organization honoring 
songwriters to emerge from a virtual entity to one with a physical location, 
also making its home at 34 Music Square East.


"We are excited that this site offers a further extension of the Curb 
College throughout Music Row, starting with Ocean Way, which provides 
students access to the finest recording studio in the country, extending to 
RCA Studio B, the historic home of great hit records by Elvis Presley, Dolly 
Parton, Jim Reeves, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and Waylon Jennings," 
Mike Curb said.  "Belmont students can now further enrich their education of 
this industry's history in Nashville in the historic Columbia Records 
Building and the historic Quonset Hut Recording Studio, the first recording 
studio on Music Row where great artists such as Marty Robbins, Sonny James, 
Patsy Cline and Brenda Lee recorded numerous hit records.  This new Music 
Row extension of the Curb College will provide students with an incredible 
opportunity to learn about the history of music through the new history 
professorship, songwriting through the new songwriting major and many other 
aspects of the music business."


Dolly Parton, who counts membership in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of 
Fame among her highest accolades, was present for the 
announcement. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ "I'm just a poor wayfaring songwriter proud 
to finally have a home," Parton said.  "I'm very excited about the new Hall 
of Fame."


Belmont University is one of the first accredited universities in the nation 
to offer a major in songwriting.  Made possible in part by collaboration 
between Belmont and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation, the 
major's first semester introductory courses in August 2007 were filled to 
capacity with 50 student songwriters registering.  Award-winning Nashville 
songwriting veterans Tom Schuyler and Bob Regan teach the classes, joining 
an impressive roster of faculty members in the Curb College, including Mark 
Volman, founding member of the Turtles, and Dove Award-winning songwriter 
James I. Elliott, coordinator of the songwriting major at Belmont.


The mission of the songwriting major in the Curb College is to help students 
develop artistic crafts while gaining a practical understanding of the 
business aspects of a songwriting career. Students in the songwriting 
program take courses in songwriting, music theory and ear training, music 
publishing and studio production.  Student songwriters will also be required 
to complete mentorships with professional songwriters.


"Belmont has a distinguished reputation for educating students working in 
Nashville's music industry," Belmont President Bob Fisher said. "We are 
honored to be a member of this partnership with the Curb Family Foundation 
and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation to advance the cause of 
songwriting and contribute to the continued success of the art by educating 
the next generation of songwriters in our esteemed Curb College of 
Entertainment & Music Business."


Students majoring in songwriting at Belmont will not need to look far for 
mentors and inspiration. With the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame also 
housed in the 34 Music Square East building, students will have close 
proximity to the hall and its resources, as well as invaluable opportunities 
to learn from its members.  Induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of 
Fame, established in 1970, is considered the highest honor that can be 
bestowed on a songwriter with connections to the Nashville music community.


"The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation is honored and excited 
about this partnership and the synergies it presents," said Roger Murrah, 
the foundation's chairman and a 2005 inductee of the Hall of Fame. "We 
helped design the curriculum for the songwriting major, and our members are 
willing and available to share our experiences with aspiring writers. We 
hope we're also a source of inspiration for them. This partnership gives us 
a chance to give back."


The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame currently boasts 162 members, 
including songwriting luminaries such as Bill Anderson, Gary Burr, Johnny 
Cash, Rodney Crowell, Sonny Curtis, Bob Dylan, Don & Phil Everly, Vince 
Gill, Harlan Howard, Bob McDill, Roger Miller, Bill Monroe, Roy Orbison, 
Dolly Parton, Carl Perkins, Jimmie Rodgers, Cindy Walker, Jimmy Webb and 
Hank Williams, Sr.  The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc. 
is a non-profit foundation that owns and operates the Nashville Songwriters 
Hall of Fame.  The NaSHOF's principal purposes are to educate, archive, 
celebrate and honor the legacy of songwriting that is uniquely associated 
with the Nashville music community.


The Mike Curb Family Foundation is dedicated to music education and 
preservation of historic music sites such as RCA Studio B, The Quonset Hut, 
Elvis Presley's first home, The Johnny Cash Museum and the Talley House at 
Fisk University.





For Belmont University:

Pamela Johnson

Director, University Marketing & Special Initiatives

Belmont University

(615) 460-6178

johnsonp@mail.belmont.edu


For Mike Curb Family Foundation:

Liz Cavanaugh

VP Publicity/Media Relations

Curb Records

615.321-5080 ext.316

lcavanaugh@curb.com



For Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation:

Karen Byrd

Karen Byrd Public Relations

(615) 595-1500

karen.byrd@gmail.com



Jokers Wild Band

www.Jokers-Wild-Band.com



The Jokers Wild Band has broken in to the top 100 on the Music Row Country 
Breakout Chart!  "Please Catch Me" is at Number 98.

"Please Catch Me," Jokers Wild's second single from their upcoming From 
Texas With Love cd, is an up-tempo country tune and was written by 
co-producer and keyboardist Buck Aaron Thomas and lead guitarist Gary Wayne 
Zaiontz. "If you are so totally in love with that special somebody that they 
take your breath away every time they enter the room, then this is your 
song!" says Buck.

The Jokers Wild Band, a 6-piece country / rock band, based in San Antonio, 
Texas, was formed in the first quarter of 2002 and has since entertained 
crowds from South Texas to Northern Montana. In 2006, Jokers Wild was 
honored to perform for former President George Bush, Sr.

The Jokers Wild Band is scheduled to headline the Admiral Zachary Fisher 
Birthday Celebration Show at Brook Army Medical Center, Fisher House in Fort 
Sam Houston, Texas, this Friday, Sept. 21, from 11:00 AM until 4:00 PM.

For Additional Information:
To request a copy of "Please Catch Me" as an MP3 or cd single, photos, or to 
schedule an interview, please contact Laura Claffey with Wildfire Publicity 
at wildfirepublicity@comcast.net. "Please Catch Me" is also available on the 
Media page by going to the Wildire Publicity website. Radio is encouraged to 
also contact Jerry Duncan Promotions.

The Story Behind Laura Bryna's "Make A Wish"

Recording Artist Inspired By Making Wishes Come True

            Nashville, TN  September 20, 2007 - Equity Music Group's Laura 
Bryna is living a wish of her own right now.  She just embarked on a 34 city 
nationwide tour as the show opener for label mate and country music 
superstar Clint Black and her new single, "Make A Wish," was released to 
country radio this week.  As the title implies, the story behind this track 
is truly a magical one.

Written by Bryna, Jeff Batson, Steve Williams and Roger Sarchet, the song 
was inspired by one special wish child that Bryna met while volunteering for 
the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a non-profit organization that grants the wishes 
of children with life threatening medical conditions.  This young girl made 
such a profound impression on Bryna because her wish was for all of her 
friends' wishes to come true.  Bryna always remembered this selfless act of 
love and hope.  So much so, that she wanted to put this sentiment in a song 
to share the message with everyone and hopefully educate people about the 
mission of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

However, life was not always so rosy for the young woman with the petite 
frame and powerhouse voice.  When Bryna was a young child her father passed 
away suddenly.  The trauma of his unexpected death is thought to have caused 
her older brother to suffer a brain aneurism and he was hospitalized and in 
a coma for months.  Although Bryna was quite young, she remembers driving to 
the hospital and hearing country music on the radio. She also remembers 
seeing famous people visiting the sick children where her brother lay 
sleeping in a coma.  She saw celebrities visiting those patients.  When she 
was older she finally understood why they were there.

"I would see all these kids in the hospital with life threatening illnesses 
and celebrities like Barbara Mandrell and Kenny Rogers would come by and 
visit them.  Seeing the celebrities made the kids so happy and helped them 
forget about their illness for a while," says Bryna.  From then on, she 
wanted to become a part of the Make-A-Wish magic and started volunteering 
for the foundation at 15 years old.  No task was too small, she did it all 
from stuffing envelopes right up to going to the homes of wish children to 
find out what they wished for and then helped in making those wishes come 
true.

As the opener for Clint Black's "Up Close and Personal Tour," Bryna is 
getting up close and personal with some of her fans after her live 
performance of "Make A Wish."  One woman, who stood in line after the show 
in Aurora, IL for an hour to speak with Bryna, thanked her for writing and 
recording the song, citing that the message wasn't only for children, but 
for adults too.  The woman had tears in her eyes expressed her appreciation 
to Bryna and told her that the song really spoke to her, as she was battling 
cancer herself.

Bryna's single, "Make A Wish," is from her debut album, Trying To Be Me, due 
out in January 2008.  For more information on Laura Bryna, visit her web 
site at  <http://www.laurabryna.com/> www.laurabryna.com.

CONTACTS:
Vanessa Parker-Davis/Splash! PR - news@splashpublicity.com
or
Jensen Sussman/Equity Music Group - jsussman@equitymusicgroup.com

MURRAH MUSIC DEBUTS ON BILLBOARD'S TOP 10 PUBLISHER AIRPLAY CHART
Shares Distinction of Being First Nashville-Based Publisher on Chart

NASHVILLE, TENN.  (September 19, 2007)-Murrah Music Corporation is proud to 
make its debut at #8 on Billboard's second-quarter Top 10 Publisher Airplay 
chart.  The chart, topped by conglomerates Universal Music Publishing Group, 
EMI Music Publishing and Warner/Chappell Music, lists each music publisher's 
market share based on radio airplay of songs in its catalog.  Independent 
Murrah Music shares the distinction of being the first Nashville-based 
publisher on the chart with its neighbor, Big Loud Songs.

Murrah Music's owner, chairman and CEO, Roger Murrah, said, "I couldn't be 
prouder of my writers and my staff.  It's because of their efforts that 
Murrah Music earned this distinction."

Murrah, a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame honoree, BMI Songwriter of the 
Year and Songwriter of the Decade ('90s), formed Murrah Music Corporation in 
1990.  Within two years, the company was named Billboard Magazine's 
Independent Publisher of the Year.  With a staff of 18 songwriters, as well 
as the prolific songwriting contributions of Murrah himself ("We're in This 
Love Together," "Goodbye Time," "Where Corn Don't Grow," "High Cotton," 
"Ozark Mountain Jubilee," "Stranger Things Have Happened," "Don't Rock the 
Jukebox"), the company has continued to flourish.  Murrah Music's catalog 
includes Academy of Country Music Songs of the Year "I'm Movin' On," 
recorded by Rascal Flatts, and "Keeper of the Stars," recorded by Tracy 
Byrd, as well as Billy Currington's recent #1 hit, "Good Directions," and 
Luke Bryan's current top-5 hit, "All My Friends Say."

Contact:
Karen Byrd/Karen Byrd Public Relations
Karen.byrd@gmail.com


LeAnn Rimes
www.Radio4Humans.de
On August 28th, 2007, LeAnn Rimes just turned 25, which is quite young for a 
singer who has already been working in the rock, pop and country music 
fields. But if you take a look at her success and the awards she has 
received, it is obvious that she has already set quite a few standards in 
the music industry.

Radio4Humans.de is proud to present an exclusive Interview with LeAnn Rimes 
on September the 29th, 2007 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Central Time (North 
America). The interview will be conducted in English and in German, so the 
German listeners as well as the international audience can listen to the 
interview in the language they prefer.

At the same time the interview will be broadcast on our partner-stations 
iWebRadio.com and Radio Music Train. For people who missed the Interview on 
Saturday, September 29th, there will be a second chance on Sunday, September 
30th, from 3:00 am to 7:00 am Central Time (North America) on 
Radio4humans.de. At that time, the broadcasting-stations of Megaradio2, 
Countrymusic24, Radio Downtown and iWebRadio.com will be tuned in.

MONTGOMERY GENTRY HITS THE STRIP IN THE LAS VEGAS PREMIERE!

(Nashville, TN)- Country music super duo MONTGOMERY GENTRY will appear on 
NBC's smash hit television series  "Las Vegas."  The two hour season 
premiere will air September 28th at 9PM EST on NBC starring Josh Duhamel, 
Molly Sims, James Lesure, Vanessa Marcil and Tom Selleck.

Now entering its fifth season, this fast-paced, sexy drama follows the elite 
Las Vegas surveillance team charged with maintaining the security of one of 
Sin City's largest resorts and casinos.

You can check out Eddie and Troy performing their Top 5 mega hit, "Hell 
Yeah" for the episode.

For more information about the show, visit www.nbc.com/las_vegas.

Fresh off their latest CMA nomination for Duo of the Year, Montgomery Gentry 
is currently touring throughout the country and promoting their latest 
album, Some People Change. Their new single, "What Do Ya Think About That" 
is currently climbing the country music charts. For more information on 
Montgomery Gentry, please visit www.montgomerygentry.com.

Lisa Hartman Black Makes Another Guest Appearance On Clint Black's Tour

Actress/Singer To Perform With Her Husband


Nashville, TN   September 17, 2007 - Lisa Hartman Black will take the stage 
with her husband Clint Black in a special performance at his upcoming 
Milwaukee, WI, concert (October 4th).  Black kicked off his Up Close and 
Personal Tour August 23rd, and will continue on the road through 
mid-November.  Hartman Black will join her country music superstar husband 
on two songs: the award winning "When I Said I Do," and a brand new duet 
titled "You Still Get To Me."  This song, as well as Black's current single, 
"The Strong One," will be featured on Black's next CD release, due in 
February 2008 from his label, Equity Music Group.

"I'm so happy Lisa's coming to the show in Milwaukee," Black said.  "When 
she walks on stage, the show quality goes way up.  I'm trying to get her out 
to more shows but it really depends on our daughter's activities.  Maybe if 
I had a school bus on the tour... then they could both come out the whole 
time!"

Fans at the Riverside Theatre in Milwaukee, WI, are in for an extraordinary 
treat.  For additional tour and ticket information, please visit 
www.clintblack.co

CONTACTS:

Jennifer Bohler/Alliance  jballiance@comcast.net

Jensen Sussman/Equity Music Group jsussman@equitymusicgroup.com



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