The Nitty Gritty from Music City_082825

Anyone you know a fledgling country songwriter?  You've gotta check out our lead story in today's Nitty Gritty from Music City.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The nitty Gritty from Music City one O three nine
The Maverick. Okay, my lead story this morning is something
that I know is going to be of impact or
potentially to a lot of you, because I know a
lot of you know someone or maybe you are that
someone who writes country music, and if you feel like
you're pretty good, here's a story that I'm leading with

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today because I want you to pay particular attention. Now,
Nashville is hosting with a songwriting legend from Music City,
Rivers Rutherford. I don't know how many number one hits
he's penned, but it's a bunch. He's serving as a
mentor to the NSAI Songwriting Contest, the Nashville Songwriters Association Contest.

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It starts Labor Day Monday and runs through Halloween. Now,
if you think deep down you've got something special, if
you think your work needs to be seen by others,
it's forty five bucks if you're a non Nashville Songwriting
Association member, thirty five if you are. There's no limit
to the number of songs or lyrics songwriters can submit.
In addition to mentoring, cash and a publishing contract with

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BMG are among the prizes that all the details at
nsaisong contests dot Com. Luke Bryan, Kerry Underwood, and Lionel
Ritchie are back. As you probably have heard. For American
Idol Season twenty four, kicking off in early twenty six
on both ABC and Hulu, the auditions had begun this

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week started Tuesday night with the return of Idyl Across
America where they go out for the auditions in various
different cities across the country. And finally, this is a
brand news story just hit Yesterday. In an interview with
Fox Digital, Randy Travis's wife Mary admitted that after he
stroked twelve years ago, he had less than a one
percent chance of survival. Less than one percent if you

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can believe that. Doctors even suggested to her that she
pulled the plug, but after looking in his eyes and
seeing a tear come down his face, she knew he
was still fighting and she refused to do it. Well,
good for her, because now more than a decade later,
Randy's still alive and kicking, and by all accounts, he's
doing as well or better than he has in years,
and he gets around in a wheelchair most of the
time and suffers from aphasia, limiting his ability to speak

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and certainly sing. But they've already started filming his biobed
titled Forever and Ever Amen in Nashville, where Klay Walker
will play Randy in his forties and fifties, with other
actors portraying him at younger ages. That film, based on
Randy's life story in twenty nineteen. Memoir, is supposed to
come out next spring. There's Your Nitty Gritty from Music

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City on one O three nine, The Maverick