Awards, was a song: “Rocky Top,” performed for the occasion… no, not by an entire Tennessee football stadium, as it so regularly is, but by Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder. The award was accepted by former BMI president Del Bryant on behalf of his late parents, legendary songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, who, he recounted, wrote the enduring country-bluegrass standard in 10 minutes in the 1960s.
On the more contemporary front, Nicole Galyon and Ross Copperman settled for a rare tie as BMI Nashville’s songwriter of the year. Galyon is the first female winner since Taylor Swift in 2010. Among the songs that contributed to her vying for the trophy in 2019 was the Dan + Shay smash “Tequila,” which was named BMI’s country song of the year for picking up the most plays.
Yoakam made note of the distance California country has felt and sometimes suffered from over the years, although it seemed to have worked out for him all right. “In some ways I always felt like a foster child,” he said in his acceptance speech, “being that I was from the west coast and I made my musical home out there. And Buck and Merle and I used to talk about that, the distance between the two communities, literally. But like most foster children, we’re the ones that often need a home.
A couple of departures were also noted during the night, one sadder than the other. The late producer
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