Alabama’s Randy Owen and songwriters Will Jennings, Layng Martine, Jr. and Jeffrey Steele were inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame during the 43rd Anniversary Hall of Fame Dinner & Induction Ceremony on October 13. Taylor Swift was also honored with the NSAI’s Songwriter/Artist of the Year award for a record-breaking sixth time.
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Will Jennings, Layng Martine, Jr., Randy Owen (Alabama) and Jeffrey Steele will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October, according to an announcement made today by the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation (NaSHOF).
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Jeffrey Steele and a string of high-profile musical buddies took the stage for a sold-out show during the sixth annual Jeffrey Steele and Friends benefit concert. The event, held March 12 at Franklin Theatre in Franklin, Tenn., featured Billy Ray Cyrus, Gloriana, Colt Ford, Chris Janson, The Shuggah Pies, LoCash Cowboys and others. GAC’s Storme Warren hosted the event.
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Two Years After the Death of His Son, Songwriter Jeffrey Steele Opens Up About His Family’s Struggle.
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The NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL (NSAI) has recognized LYRIC STREET group RASCAL FLATTS and hit songwriter JEFFREY STEELE as the organization’s newest Lifetime Members.
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Billy Ray Cyrus is appearing in a new album and a new movie, but he might soon be featured in a new supergroup as well. Might, however, is the operative word.
Of the many secrets of the Nashville music industry that remain unknown to those on the outside, there’s one that stands out the most to Jeffrey Steele, an award-winning songwriter, producer and performer.
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The definitive interpretation of “What Hurts the Most,” the No. 1 country hit by Rascal Flatts, comes not from that group but from the song’s writer, Jeffrey Steele. Rascal Flatts wiped the song clean of anguish, but Mr. Steele, as seen in any number of YouTube clips, howls it like a torture victim. At Joe’s Pub on Wednesday night he hammered at a piano and sang it severely, killing the chatter in the room. In the context of his bruised vocal, even when his fingers fell on the wrong keys, it sounded right.
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For now, artists still think about songs — plenty of evidence surfaced to prove that today. The writing process was the focus of a panel featuring Jeffrey Steele, Jessica Lea Mayfield and Ed Harcourt, who each played and offered stories about their own favorites, Bluebird Cafe style. Harcourt explained that “Caterpillar” was about his daughter, who was born prematurely and had to be in an incubator after her birth. Mayfield wrote a song about a random sexual encounter she had as a teenager. “It should have been romantic,” she admitted. “But I really didn’t care.”
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There are about 1,800 acts coming to South By Southwest this year and, even without knowing the histories and credits of every one, it’s safe to say that Jeffrey Steele is the only member of the SXSW Class of 2009 who has co-written a song with Miley Cyrus (“I Thought I Lost You” from the animated film “Bolt”).
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