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NU Sampler Vol. II

Nashville Underground was formed in 1999 to showcase the uniquely multi-talented hit songwriters who call Nashville home. While their songs have been among the most popular of our time, their incredible talents as singers, players, and producers have remained Nashville`s best-kept secret...until now. The NU Sampler Series features these artists` original versions of some of the world`s favorite songs that show the true depth of their artistry.

The second volume in the series includes original songs by: Billy Dean, Stephen Allen Davis, Gary Nicholson, Bob DiPiero, Marcus Hummon, and Hugh Prestwood.

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Track Listing

1. Hugh Prestwood: Pipers Don't Get PaidListen
Hugh Prestwood) 3:54 ©2001 Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc./ Hugh Prestwood Music (BMI) All Rights on behalf of Hugh Prestwood Music, Admin. By Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc. Produced, Engineered, Mixed, and Performed by: Hugh Prestw
PIPERS DON`T GET PAID - Exclusive!! - is not included on Hugh`s GHOST IN THIS HOUSE cd, and is available only on the NU Sampler Vol. II.

I have Napster and Robert Browning`s "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (a poem I dearly love) to thank for this one: "So, Willie, let me and you be wipers of scores out with all men -- especially pipers!" The thing that I find most frustrating about this whole Napster-type software problem is that all these high school/college kids see absolutely nothing wrong with downloading and "sharing" copyrighted music. The music industry has done a rotten job of getting out the message that besides the record labels there are a lot of people in the music business -- songwriters for instance -- who make their living only when music is paid for.
2. Hugh Prestwood: The Song Remembers WhenListen
(Hugh Prestwood) 3:55 ©1993 Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc./ Hugh Prestwood Music (BMI) All Rights on behalf of Hugh Prestwood Music, admin. by Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc. Produced, Engineered, Mixed, and Performed by: Hugh Prestw
Mastering studio: Mastermix Studio
Background vocals: Nancy Lee Baxter
From Hugh`s album: Ghost In This House

I got the idea for this song from an Ann Sexton poem -- "The Music Swims Back To Me". There`s a line where a woman hearing a song on the radio says, "That song remembers more than I do". I was struck by the idea that the song does the remembering. When I completed it I thought it was as good a song as I`d ever write, but I knew it wasn`t an obvious "radio" kind of song. It took over a year and a half to get it cut. I slowly fell into a fairly deep depression about it because I felt if song couldn`t be cut it would represent a major refutation of what I was trying to do as a writer. A couple of producers asked me if I could rewrite it to make it more "chorus-y" but I loved the song "as is". Thank God for Trisha Yearwood and Garth Fundis. When Garth played me the mix I was utterly, profoundly, revelation-ized.
3. Stephen Allen Davis: Take Time To Know HerListen
(Stephen Allen Davis) 6:14 EMI Al Gallico Music Corp. (BMI)
Recording studio: Twangstar Recording Ranch & Health Spa
Mixing studio: Colorado Sound, Denver, CO
Engineers: Stephen Allen Davis, James Tuttle (mix)
Musicians: Stephen Allen Davis (guitars, glass bass), Joe Jogerst (accordion), Mann Randolph (ramdon vibes), Julie Hoest, Scott Martin, and The Pinecliffe Traveling Tabernacle Choir (background vocals)

from Stephen`s The Light Pink Album (Hometown Records)

I wrote this song the summer I got out of high school. I was 17. I wrote it in my bedroom next to my parents’ bedroom about 3 a.m. I had no kind of tape recorder so I just had to kinda remember it. I would play it everyday. It was the first song I ever had published or cut and it was a world wide hit. It made me crazy, I thought well “hell this is so easy I can do this a couple of times a week.” Well it did not work that way, but it was a miracle. It gave me the chance to continue to work, learn and get better. Thank you. Amen.
4. Stephen Allen Davis: Highway HighwayListen
(Stephen Allen Davis) 3:55 Hamstein Cumberland Music (BMI)
Recording studio: Twangstar Recording Ranch & Health Spa
Mixing studio: Colorado Sound, Denver, CO
Producer: Stephen Allen Davis
Engineers: James Tuttle, Russ Vasta, Stephen Allen Davis
Musicians: Stephen Allen Davis (all instruments), Mann Randolph (background vocals)

from Stephen`s The Light Pink Album (Hometown Records)

I left Nashville and moved to the mountains of Colorado to just breathe and heal. I did not know if I had enough heart left to do anything in music again. Slowly I started writing what I felt in my heart and not trying to write a song that someone would want to record. It started me on a whole new way of working. The best thing I ever did was to surrender to what was going on around me, accept it and even use it to go to another level. That is what I call grace. A gift.
5. Marcus Hummon: Cowboy Take Me AwayListen
Marcus Hummon / Marty Seidel) 3:48 ©1999 Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc. / Floyd’s Dream Music and Woolly Puddin’ Music (admin by Bug Music) (BMI). All Rights on behalf of Floyd’s Dream Music, admin. by Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc.
Recording studio: Studio 19
Mixing studio: Studio 19
Producer: Marcus Hummon
Engineers: Dave Mathews
Musicians: Marcus Hummon
All vocals: Marcus Hummon

"Exclusive! This version not available anywhere!"
Martie and I had worked on this other song for two days that wasn’t very good. We finished it and she heated up a can of spaghetti and she mentioned that she had another title, “Calgon Take Me Away.” I said that I didn’t think it was such a great title. “No,” she said, “Cowboy take me away.”

She wanted to write a wedding song for her sister Emily and Charlie (Robison), who is a cowboy I understand. She had a fiddle line and I had a few verses started. We wrote it in 20 minutes. It was one of those songs.
6. Marcus Hummon: Our Lady Of The Pouring RainListen
(Marcus Hummon) 3:55 ©2001 Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc./Our Trinity Music (BMI) All Rights on behalf of Our Trinity Music, Admin. by Careers-BMG Music Publishing, Inc.
Recording studio: Mainframe Recording Studio
Mixing studio: Mainframe Recording Studio
Producer: Marcus Hummon
Engineers: Nathan Smith
Musicians: Marcus Hummon (piano) Mark Prentice (bass) Vinnie Santoro (drums)
Catherine Styron (B-3 organ) Michael Severs (electric guitar) Darrell Scott (mandolin, acoustic guitar)

"Exclusive!! Songs Not Not available anywhere"
I went to this boarding school in Rome when I was a kid, 16 or 17, and I remember getting a bus down into the city…going to the Vatican. My girlfriend at the time had just broken up with me and so I was depressed, and it was raining on the cobblestones. I went inside St. Peters and there was “La Pieta,” behind glass. There was this breath-taking image behind protective glass. The sculpture was eroding due to centuries of pilgrims’ lips caressing the marble feet of Christ. That’s where I was when I wrote this song.
7. Bob DiPiero: The Church On Cumberland RoadListen
(Bob DiPiero / John Scott Sherrill / Dennis Robbins) 4:16 © 1989 Love Monkey Music / Sony/ATV Songs LLC, and Old Wolf Music (BMI) / Trevcor Music Corp. (ASCAP)
RECORDED: Live At The Bluebird Café
MIXING STUDIO: Omni Studio, Nashville, TN
PRODUCER: Bob DiPiero
ENGINEER: Herb Tassen
MUSICIANS: Bob DiPiero (guitars, vocals) Gary Burr (guitar, vocals)
Jim Photoglo (guitar, vocals) Michael McDonald (piano)

licensed from American Originals Records` LIVE AT THE BLUEBIRD CAFÉ Series Album BOB DIPIERO - LAUGH - LIVE AT THE BLUEBIRD CAFÉ (AMO-4005).
(P)2001 American Originals Records. Available at www.americanoriginalscds.com
"CHURCH ON CUMBERLAND ROAD""Church" has always been one of my personal favorites. First of all...it rocks! But I always wanted to mix rock and country. Not "Eagles style" country, but a true rock groove married to real country sensibility with a lyric written in the genuine language of the common man. "Church on
Cumberland Road" is as close as I’ve gotten.
8. Bob DiPiero: World's ApartListen
(Bob DiPiero / Vince Gill) 3:26 Sony/ATV Songs, LLC dba Tree Publishing Co. and Benefit Music (BMI)
RECORDED: Live At The Bluebird Café
MIXING STUDIO: Omni Studio, Nashville, TN
PRODUCER: Bob DiPiero
ENGINEER: Herb Tassen
MUSICIANS: Bob DiPiero (guitars, vocals) Gary Burr (guitar, vocals)
Jim Photoglo (guitar, vocals), Richard Marx (keys)

licensed from American Originals Records` LIVE AT THE BLUEBIRD CAFÉ Series Album BOB DIPIERO - LAUGH - LIVE AT THE BLUEBIRD CAFÉ (AMO-4005).
(P)2001 American Originals Records. Available at www.americanoriginalscds.com
9. Gary Nicholson: Choose LoveListen
(Gary Nicholson) 4:28 Gary Nicholson Music (admin by Sony/ATV Tunes dba Cross Keys Publishing Co.)(ASCAP)
From the album FORTUNATE SONS (Fortune Records)
Producer: Fortunate Sons And Justin Niebank
Engineer: Justin Niebank
Exec. Producer: Bernard St. Paul
Musicians: Gary Nicholson (guitars, vocals)Kenny Greenberg(guitars), Michael Rhoads (bass), Reese Wynans (Keyboards), Chad Cromwell (drums)
Recording studios: Woodland Sound Studio, Hound`s Ear, Ken`s Gold Club
Choose Love was inspired by the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda, author of "Autobiography of a Yogi" and founder of Self Realization Fellowship which disseminates worldwide the principles and meditation techniques of Kriya Yoga for cultivating a personal relationship with God and demonstrating the common scientific foundation of all true religions
10. Gary Nicholson: The Trouble With The TruthListen
Gary Nicholson) 4:33 Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, dba Cross Keys Publishing Co. and Four Sons Music (ASCAP)
Recording studios: Imagine Studios, Room & Board, Sony/Tree, JTM, Abtrax, Masterlink, Quad Studios
Producer: Rob Fraboni and Gary Nicholson
Mixed by: Clarke Schleicher with Rob Fraboni
Engineers: Rob Fraboni, Clarke Schleicher, John Huley
Musicians: Gary Nicholson (vocal, guitar), Kenny Greenberg (wah-wah), Michael Rhodes (bass), Chad Cromwell (drums), Reese Wynans (keyboards), Jonell Mosser (harmony)

From Gary`s album The Sky Is Not The Limit

The Trouble with the Truth is one of those songs that just came as a gift from my self to me. I found myself singing the first line and it felt so good I just kept taggin` along till I got there, to the always begs for more line, then I knew I was gettin` to say something I needed to hear. It remains my all time favorite cause it just keeps on being true, but that`s the trouble with it.
11. Billy Dean: Somewhere In My Broken HeartListen
(Billy Dean, Richard Leigh) 3:41 BTK Songs / EMI Blackwood Music (BMI) / EMI April Music, Inc./ Lion-Hearted Music, (admin by EMI April Music, Inc.) (ASCAP)
Studio: The Holler, Nashville, TN
Producer: Billy Dean
Engineers: Eric Legg, Dan Rudin
Musicians: Billy Dean (guitars), Joe Hogue (keys)

"Exclusive!! Brand new version not available anywhere!"

"SOMEWHERE IN MY BROKEN HEART" was the first song Richard and I wrote together. He played me this melody, which inspired him during the Thanksgiving holidays. After we finished the song, Randy Travis recorded it and that was my first cut as a songwriter in Nashville. It also was the song that scored my record deal, and then went on to become my first #1 Single as a recording artist. It`s won numerous awards, but the most precious to me was when my peers at the NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association Inc.) voted it "Song of The Year".
12. Billy Dean: By My SongListen
Billy Dean, Richard Leigh) 3:15 Haneli Music (BMI) / EMI April Music / Wood & Wire Music (ASCAP)
Recording studios: The Holler and The Mix Box, Nashville, TN
Producer: Billy Dean
Engineers: Eric Legg, Dan Rudin
Musicians: Billy Dean (guitars) Joe Hogue (keys)

"Exclusive!! Not available on any Billy Dean cd products!!"

"BY MY SONG" was inspired by a Shakespeare sonnet in which a woman was immortalized in his prose. "BY MY SONG" was an attempt to do the same, only with melody and lyric. My inspiration was my little daughter, Hannah.

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Pure Music
Check this out, great idea. Great and hit songs done by the writers, all of whom are excellent musicians. Lovers of song and certainly songwriters owe it to themselves to be looking into this. I meet many people today who are aficionados of "essential" music, songs done without a lot of production, preferably by the writers. Certainly this speaks to their values as well.

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