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Jan 23, 2012 Pictured at the inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival are BMI’s Mark Mason, Lacy Buchanan, Jake Owen, Crested Butte Mayor Aaron Huckstep, and Mac Davis. View Photo

Jan 23, 2012 Pictured at the inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival are BMI’s Mason Hunter, Rodney Clawson, Texas Roadhouse’s Kent Taylor, Coors’ Lance Beam, Jake Owen, and BMI’s Tom Annastas. View Photo

Jan 23, 2012 Pictured at the inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival are Crested Butte Mountain Resort’s Lawson Pedder, Dean Dillon, Scarp Ridge Lodge’s Peter O’Rourke, and BMI’s Tom Annastas. View Photo

Jan 23, 2012 Pictured at the inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival are Emily Shackelton, Mark Mason, Rodney Clawson, Nicolle Galyon, Kristy Lee Cook, Vicki McGehee, and BMI’s Mary Loving. View Photo

Jan 23, 2012 Beautiful Crested Butte, CO, hosted the inaugural Crested Butte Songwriters Festival, January 13-15. Presented by BMI, Texas Roadhouse, Coors, and Crested Butte Mountain Resort, the fest revolved around days full of skiing and nights full of music, delivered by some of the country’s top performing songwriters: Robert Earl Keen, Dean Dillon, Mac Davis, Marti Frederiksen, Jake Owen, Kristen Kelly, Nicolle… View Photo

Jan 23, 2012 BMI treated songwriter Bobby Tomberlin to a lunch at Nashville’s Maggiano’s on January 18 to celebrate four million performances of his modern-day country standard “One More Day.” Recorded by Diamond Rio in 2000, the song was Tomberlin’s first No. 1 in 2001. In addition to Diamond Rio, Tomberlin has had songs recorded by Josh Turner, Faith Hill, Kenny Rogers, Rodney… View Photo

Jan 19, 2012 Brantley Gilbert thanks his family and co-writers at the “Country Must Be Country Wide” No. 1 party. View Photo

Jan 19, 2012 BMI celebrated the team behind Brantley Gilbert’s No. 1 “Country Must Be Country Wide” on Tuesday, January 17 in Nashville. Co-written by veteran Mike Dekle and rising star Colt Ford, the hit became a self-fulfilling prophecy as it blanketed airwaves across the nation, topping charts in October of last year. Although the song marks Gilbert’s first No. 1 as a… View Photo

Jan 19, 2012 Co-writers Colt Ford and Mike Dekle field reporters’ questions at the “Country Must Be Country Wide” No. 1 party. View Photo

Jan 19, 2012 Co-writer Colt Ford delivers an emotional thank-you speech at the “Country Must Be Country Wide” No. 1 party. View Photo