{"id":1302546,"date":"2019-01-17T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802339"},"modified":"2019-01-17T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T21:52:11","slug":"writers-of-russell-dickersons-blue-tacoma-honored-at-bmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/writers-of-russell-dickersons-blue-tacoma-honored-at-bmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers of Russell Dickerson\u2019s \u201cBlue Tacoma\u201d Honored at BMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:649609?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">6m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The gray, chilly Nashville streets were worlds away from the golden California road <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/russell-dickerson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Dickerson<\/a> sings about in \u201cBlue Tacoma.\u201d Even so, the mood was gloriously sunny inside the BMI reception hall Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 16) as hundreds of guests streamed in to honor the writers of the song that became Dickerson\u2019s second No. 1 hit.<\/p>\n<p>The composers being celebrated were Dickerson, himself, and his two co-writers, Casey Brown and Parker Welling. Brown also produced the song. The trio scored their first No. 1 last year with the Dickerson single \u201cYours.\u201d They\u2019re currently climbing the <em>Billboard<\/em> charts with \u201cEvery Little Thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eHTiEn72SOA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eHTiEn72SOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>BMI\u2019s Spencer Nohe hosted the event and summoned the writers to stand with him on the stage to bask in the general praise. He noted at the outset that he is Welling\u2019s husband. \u201cShe just has a way with words,\u201d he said admiringly. \u201cParker could write a song with a brick wall \u2014 and sometimes I think she has.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nohe was equally effusive about Dickerson. Apart from his \u201chigh energy\u201d and \u201cmagnetism,\u201d Nohe said, the singer is \u201cthe kind of guy who\u2019ll re-route a vacation to take care of a friend in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norbert Nix and Kevin Herring \u2014 the general manager and head of promotion, respectively, of Dickerson\u2019s label, Thirty Tiger Records \u2014 were among the many who came forward to compliment him on his work ethic and achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Herring, a Music Row veteran, pointed out that \u201cBlue Tacoma\u201d is the second \u201ccar song\u201d he\u2019s had a hand in promoting to the top. The first, he said, was Sammy Kershaw\u2019s \u201cCadillac Style,\u201d which was a No. 2 hit on Mercury Records, way back in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>After inviting all of Thirty Tigers\u2019 regional promoters to join him and Nix on stage, Herring turned to Dickerson and said, \u201cNobody gets [how the music business works] like you do, and that\u2019s why you\u2019re going to be a superstar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1802339\/writers-of-russell-dickersons-blue-tacoma-honored-at-bmi\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 6m ago The gray, chilly Nashville streets were worlds away from the golden California road Russell Dickerson sings about in \u201cBlue Tacoma.\u201d Even so, the mood was gloriously sunny inside the BMI reception hall Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 16) as hundreds of guests streamed in to honor the writers of the song that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:12:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}