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Lionsgate and BMI Toast The Boxmasters at Sundance Film Festival
During the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, BMI Vice President, Film/TV Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI Senior Director, Film/TV Linda Livingston, and Lionsgate Vice President of Film Music Tracy McKnight co-hosted a cocktail party celebrating The Boxmasters’ new album, Modbilly, slated for release April 21 this year. Held Monday, January 19 at the Caledonian in Park City, Utah, the intimate gathering attracted The Boxmasters themselves and a slew of…
From News, posted 1.28.09
Dwight Yoakam: Honky-Tonk Experiments
An exponent of West Coast honky-tonk whose success as a mainstream country artist helped redefine country’s relationship to its past, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed an exemplary, far-ranging career as a singer, songwriter and film actor. Born in the eastern Kentucky town of Pikeville on Oct. 23, 1956, Yoakam grew up in Ohio, where he absorbed traditional country, Buck Owens and the…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.23.08
A Conversation with Moby at SXSW
BMI sponsored an in depth conversation with internationally distinguished musician Moby at the Austin Convention Center during SXSW on March 11. Moderated by Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI’s Vice President, Film & Television Relations, Moby discussed his music’s relationship with cinema, the challenges and rewards accompanying the composition of original scores and his new project “moby gratis”, which seeks to offer his music to independent filmmakers free of…
From News, posted 3.17.08
You’d Better Watch Out for ‘Bad Santa’
BMI composer David Kitay is finishing up his score for the December 5 release of the holiday comedy "Bad Santa," starring Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham and the late John Ritter. The film, directed by Terry Zwigoff of "Ghost World" fame, is the story of two criminals who disguise themselves as Santa Claus (Thornton) and his elf, traveling across…
From News, posted 11.04.03
Warren Zevon Offers a Lesson in Living
As a songwriter, Warren Zevon is one of the most articulate and witty observers of the vicissitudes, absurdities and ironies of modern life. He's given us glimpses at the "Werewolves Of London, the "Excitable Boy" and "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner." He has called for "Lawyers, Guns and Money, done time in the "Detox Mansion, and shown us what it's like to be "Poor Poor Pitiful Me."…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.29.03
Mos Def: Most Definitely A Two-Pronged Talent
Acclaimed for his compelling hip-hop recordings, film performances and stage work, rapper/actor Mos Def apparently won't be satisfied until he has won an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy and a Tony. Indeed, though he only emerged recently from the streets of his native Brooklyn, Mos Def has already demonstrated the style, integrity and relentless drive of a true artist. His irrepressible creativity can be attributed to…
From MusicWorld, posted 6.30.02
Earl Scruggs Brings Out the Best
A bunch of billies blend their genre-clashing talents on the latest bluegrass musical masterpiece, Earl Scruggs and Friends. There's British-billy Elton John joining the maestro in the down-home Elton/Bernie Taupin tour de fields "Country Comfort." Sounding anything like a "Sir," Elton launches visions of a rocker gone country, adorned not in glitter but in jeans, and rocking not on stage but in a wooden…
From MusicWorld, posted 5.31.02
Billy Bob Thornton
BMI songwriter Billy Bob Thornton (center) takes a break from rehearsals for his European tour to say hello to BMI London's Brandon Bakshi and Phil Graham.
From News, posted 3.26.02
Marty Stuart
Need a renaissance man? Grammy-winning vocalist and instrumentalist, hit songwriter and producer, acclaimed photographer, writer-journalist - and Hollywood Hillbilly - that's Marty Stuart. Newly inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, Stuart tallied hits on major labels and crafted such ambitious projects as his critically acclaimed concept album The Pilgrim. "My bedrock is all of the above, and what I'm doing at the moment,"…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.28.01
John Prine
As he approaches his 30th year as a recording artist, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter John Prine looms as the master of his own destiny. A perennial favorite among critics and musicians, Prine has cultivated a devoted following with his rootsy melodies, Dylanesque vocals and barbwire wit. And though his songs have been covered by Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, The Everly Bros. and Bette Midler, among others, Prine’s biggest achievement…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.31.99
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