Phillip Lammonds is a songwriter and talented instrumentalist from the musically rich mountains of North Carolina. From his childhood in the mountains to his time in the South Carolina Lowcountry, it was this melting pot of sounds and rhythms that formed his musical sensibilities. When pressed, Phillip describes his musical and writing styles as “raking through a toolbox in the dark.” In his opinion,“Songs aren’t really written, they are caught like a fish. They’re out there swimming around. But they aren’t always biting.”

After college, Phillip was a founder of The Blue Dogs, a beloved and critically acclaimed bluegrass and rock inspired jam band. He then started his family in Pawley’s Island, South Carolina while working as a fishing guide, a falconer, and the owner of the islands Southeby’s real estate company. All the while, Phillip wrote songs and traveled to Nashville to pitch them. After fifteen years, fifty or so trips to Nashville, and cuts on major artists—Hootie and the Blowfish, Josh Turner, Craig Morgan—Phillip moved to music city to pursue songwriting full time. He stepped onto the scene with a publishing deal from Curb Entertainment and a back catalog nearly five hundred songs strong. Phillip’s songs have been recorded by artists like Lee Brice, Jerrod Niemann, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Edwin McCain, Craig Morgan, Kellie Pickler, Mo Pitney, and Dylan Scott.

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Phillip Lammonds is a songwriter and talented instrumentalist from the musically rich mountains of North Carolina. After fifteen years, fifty or so trips to Nashville, and cuts on major artists— Hootie and the Blowfish, Josh Turner, Craig Morgan—Phillip moved to Music City to pursue songwriting full time. Since then, Phillip’s songs have been recorded by artists like Lee Brice, Jerrod Niemann, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Edwin McCain, Craig Morgan, Kellie Pickler, Mo Pitney, and Dylan Scott. Read more about Phillip Lammonds here:

Rob Snyder is a Singer-Songwriter from West Chester, PA. Snyder’s appetite for music began at an early age and was encouraged by his family, as both of his grandfathers were musicians and writers.Snyder launched “Revival” at the Tin Roof on Demonbreun Street in Nashville in 2013. With the moniker “Hank and Jesus are watching”, “Revival” showcases some of country music’s most talented songwriters every Tuesday.

Snyder has had songs recorded by Luke Combs’ 4 Week Billboard Number One Song “She Got The Best of Me” as well as “Six Feet Apart” and “Dear Today”, Ashland Craft, Will Hoge, The Davisson Brothers Band, & Adam Hood. You can find his debut album “The Way That I am” that was released in June of 2020 on all digital platforms.

What’s in the name? Well, the answer is personal for country singer-songwriter Sarah Allison Turner. Born in the mountains of Bluefield, West Virginia, her unique moniker came from parents who thought “it sounded like a cool stage name,” she says with a laugh. It is no surprise music has been a part of Sarah’s destiny from the beginning.

Her first memory of music is her dad playing cover songs on the guitar at 4 years old. She began piano lessons the same year and honed her skill for singing in church where her grandfather was the pastor. A few years later she started her first band and while they never performed a single show together, it was then that Sarah knew music was always going to be part of her life — she just didn’t quite know how. “Music was something I was always around,” says the woman who calls LoreDa Lynn her hero. “Besides my dad playing and singing around the house, I’m pre0y sure everyone in my family can play an instrument and sing. It’s like a Turner family rite of passage or something.”

A moment on the floor of her bedroom closet when she was 15-years-old changed everything. She had been writing poems there and, eventually, she started putting music to those words. When her dad overheard the process, she reluctantly played him the first song she finished called “Letter To You.” His response set the trajectory for the rest of Sarah’s career. “There’s a place in Nashville called the Bluebird Café,” he said at the time. “If you write two more songs, I’ll take you to Nashville.”

Discovering songwriting and her beloved Bluebird Café that day led to the realization that Music City was indeed where she belonged. In 2011, she moved to Murfreesboro, TN — a few miles outside of Nashville — to attend Middle Tennessee State University, but she jokes she found herself in Music Row more often than on campus.