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Long Hollow Winery Songwriter's Night (Kent Blazy, Brice Long, Riley Weston)
An evening filled with original songs from Kent Blazy, Brice Long, and Riley Weston.
Kent Blazy, growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, became musically inspired when he heard Roger McGuinn playing his Rickenbacker guitar on "Mr. Tamborine Man". This created a new choice and Kent traded in his baseball glove for a guitar. He began his musical journey playing with a series of bands all over the eastern half of the country.
By the mid-70s, Kent was band leader, playing guitar and touring with Canadian legend, Ian Tyson. Sound advice and the timely first place win in a national songwriting contest persuaded him to move to Nashville in 1980. Kents commitment was now to focus his efforts at the craft of songwriting. It was a very fine decision.
In 1982, sooner than expected, Gary Morris took "Headed for a Heartache" to number 5 on the charts. In the years that followed other artists, such as The Forrester Sisters, T. Graham Brown, Donna Fargo and Moe Bandy recorded Kents tunes.
To develop more knowledge of the recording side of music and for the benefits of a day job, Kent opened a home recording studio. The studio offered an option for Kents demos as well as a demo service to other writers. This studio introduced Kent to some of the new demo singers and songwriters of Nashville; names like Randy Travis, Billy Dean, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie, and Martina McBride, now well-known country artists.
In 1987, Kent was introduced to a new demo singer by Bob Doyle, then with ASCAP, soon to be the manager for this emerging talent, Garth Brooks. Garth became Kents most requested demo singer and Bob Doyle also advised, Garth writes a little bit too.
The first song Garth and Kent penned together was "If Tomorrow Never Comes" which became the first number one song for both. The friendship and writing partnership continued as Garth included eight more of their songs on his albums. Four more captured the number one slot:
"Somewhere Other Than the Night", "Aint Goin Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)", "Its Midnight Cinderella", and "Shes Gonna Make It"
Garths newest CD, "The Lost Sessions", includes another Kent and Garth song, "For a Minute There", written for their fathers. Kent and fellow songwriter Pat Alger co-produced a CD titled "In the Beginning: A Songwriters Tribute to Garth Brooks".
This project is a collective of 6 other songwriters who composed songs on Garths first two albums. The focus was to present the songs in the original acoustic and authentic sound form as Garth first heard them. The CD was originally planned as a gift to Garth during his 100 million party in 2000. An independent recording label saw the potential and released the CD in 2001, resulting in 50,000+ copies sold to date.
An added benefit of this CD included a tour in Ireland for Kent and 3 other Garth writers. In Ireland, Kent discovered that "If Tomorrow Never Comes" was released in Europe, Japan, Australia and The United Kingdom by an Irish artist, Ronan Keating. His recording became a successful number one song in many countries.
Kents songwriting continues with established writing partnerships, as well as developing partnerships with new writers and artists. Many of his crafted works continue to be recorded by artists such as Diamond Rio, Kenny Chesney, Terri Clark, Clay Walker, Patty Loveless, Julie Roberts, Andy Griggs and Blaine Larsen, a new recording artist on RCA. Kent's latest #1 hit is Gettin' You Home (The Black Dress Song), recorded by Chris Young. Kent also, has the title track on Reba's latest CD "All The Women I Am" It's also the name of her tour, tv special and her exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Also, look for Kent's latest cuts from Randy Houser "The Power of a Song" on Randy's latest CD. And "Empty Beer Cans" on Jon Pardi's new CD "Write You A Song".
Brice Long is a native of Hopkinsville, KY. Hes had charted singles as a recording artist with Its Only Monday and Anywhere But Here. His self titled album is available on Itunes or wherever digital music is sold.
Brice is signed to Word Music Publishing. Hes had cuts with Garth Brooks, Hank Williams Jr, George Strait, Randy Houser, Josh Turner, Reba McEntire, Gary Allan, Chris Young, Randy Travis, Jon Pardi, Casey James, Gretchen Wilson, John Michael Montgomery, Including the #1 single Nothing On But The Radio for Gary Allan, and recent chart toppers with Randy Housers, Anything Goes., Today from Gary Allan, Casey James Lets Dont Call It A Night and Jon Pardi, What I Cant Put Down. Brice Received a CMA Song of the Year nomination for his Randy Houser hit, Like A Cowboy.
Riley Weston has worked as an actress and writer on many television shows and feature films. She traded Hollywood for Nashville, and has added music to her impressive resume. In only a few years, Riley has opened up for Lee Brice and countrys favorite duo, Montgomery Gentry, as well as playing the Bluebird 19 times in 5 years and touring!
She has starred in the hit TV movie, What About Your Friends, written for the television drama, Felicity as well as guest-starred as Story Zimmer. She quickly grabbed the attention of Touchstone Pictures and Television brass who signed Riley to an acting and writing development deal. She then wrote and starred in the highly rated ABC television movie, Christmas at Waters Edge.
She went on to film a cameo role in the horror film, The Cutting Room. Riley created the hit web-series, Being Bailey, for GoTV Networks, which she also produced. Riley also wrote Dark Beauty, a television movie for Lifetime as well as Damaged starring Chris Klein from American Pie.
Riley wrote The Nanny Express for the Hallmark Channel. She also wrote the movie Always and Forever for the Hallmark Channel, starring Dean McDermott {Mr. Tori Spelling} Rena Sofer, and Barbara Eden {I Dream of Jeannie}. Both movies are currently in rotation, airing on Hallmark.
Riley filmed a supporting lead in the indie feature film, Footprints. She plays a disturbed runaway in Hollywood who dresses up as Super Girl. It was named "One of the 10 Best Films so Far this Year" by the Chairman of the NY Film Critics Circle.
She has received three awards for her debut novel, before i go: an IPPY Award for Story Teller of the Year, the Grand Prize at The New York Book Festival as well as the top honor as Best Fiction. And lastly, Riley received a Book Sense Pick Award. Riley is now meeting with investors to film the movie version of before i go, based on a script she wrote.
Riley is extremely excited to have signed to star in her movie, before i go. Having already written and recorded the movies theme song, Riley is now training to play an Olympic ice skater for the film in her spare time.
Riley also stays busy in Nashville co-writing with amazing songwriters and recording her original music.
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LocationLong Hollow Winery (View)
665 Long Hollow Pike
GOODLETTSVILLE, TN 37072-3450
United States
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