Knox Music Group is an artist developing company founded by Music Row veteran Michael Knox. Management, Production and Artist-Writer Development will be its focus.
By partnering with CollegeMusicRadio.com to discover the artists of tomorrow, the Next Generation, Knox will have his pulse on the next generation of music makers.
"Independent music has nowhere to go," says Knox. "The music business is not set up to nurture and expose it, to give it a place of its own. That's what College Music Radio is designed to do--to create an avenue for new music."
Few people in Music Row history have turned creativity into chart success as well as Michael Knox. When he was an executive for Warner/Chappell Music (1992 – 2002), Knox was responsible for writer and artist development and song placements that left his stamp on more than 150 million records. Along the way, he has proven himself to be one of Nashville's most original business minds and one of its most successful groomers of talent.
"I don't do things in a traditional way," Knox says. "I want to be the guy who may do the unexpected because it taps into the heart of the creative process."
The result has been a truly impressive level of success. With monster hits as a songplugger by Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Reba, Gary Allan, Collin Raye, Tracy Byrd, Lonestar, Clay Walker, and many others--more than 300 cuts in eight years--all reflect his pivotal role in bringing together artist and song.
In 2004 Knox produced Jason Aldean’s self -titled Platinum album on Broken Bow Records, including the Top Ten hit single “Hicktown”, Top 5 Single “Amarillo Sky” and the Billboard and R&R Number One (1) hit single “Why”.
In 2006 he produced Aldean’s GOLD album “Relentless” with it’s Top 10 hit single “Johnny Cash”, Top 5 hit single “Laugh Until We Cried” and Top 15 single “Relentless”. With first week sales of 98,000 copies, Aldean’s sophomore album “Relentless” debut in 2007 at 1 on Billboards Top Country Albums.
In 2007 Knox moved into a new territory, Producing and Managing newcomers Crossin Dixon, a new band on Broken Bow Records, with the singles “Guitar Slinger” and “I Love My Old Bird Dog” which reached 1 on the CMT Pure Country Network play list.
In 2008 Knox produced the Jason Aldean release “Wide Open”, with sells of more than 100,000 copies in its first week to debut at No. 2 on the Billboard Country chart and No. 4 on the all-genre Billboard 200. The first single "She's Country" which was performed on the 42nd CMA Awards, reached the Number 1 spot on the Billboard and R&R Country Music Chart in May of 2009 and was certified GOLD with more than 900,000 singles sold. In addition Knox produced the Jason Aldean GOLD selling FOUR Week Number One HIT single “Big Green Tractor” which was the number one Ringtone on iTunes for 5 consecutive weeks, and Aldean’s new single “Truth”.
Also in 2008 Knox produced the Road Hammers current USA Top 50 debut singles “I Don’t Know When To Quit” and “I’ve Got The Scars To Prove It” for Montage Records, and Knox also appeared in The Road Hammers reality series which aired on GAC, and CMT Canada, and in 2009 he appeared in the CMT show Jason Aldean “Wide Open”.
Also in 2009 Knox is working with newcomers Josh Thompson with current Top 40 single “Beer On The Table” for Columbia Records Nashville, Frankie Ballard (Warner Brothers Records), Chuck Wicks (RCA), Bush Hog and Shalacy Griffin (Knox Music Group) and most recently he has started work on the new Trace Adkins project for Capital Records to be release in 2010.
Knox came by his intimate knowledge of the music business honestly. The son of early rock 'n' roll legend Buddy Knox ("Party Doll" 1957), he had a front-row seat on history.
"I'd like to be known as a creative guy who happens to know how to run a
business," he says. "I like getting in a room with writers and artists and
being part of what facilitates their creativity."
"I truly believe," says Knox, "that the best music out there is music that normally doesn't get heard. There's a generation of brilliant talent out there that's not sure yet where to go or where they fit. Those are the people I want to work with."
Thank you for the friendship. Enjoy the music at your leasure! The rough video of "The Fishing Pole Song" is worth hearing. Thank you for your support.
Daniel Paul Of The Daniel Paul Band & Daniel Paul Publishing BMI
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Come join us Wednesday September 2 at the video shoot for Josh Thompson's new single "Beer on the Table". Everyone needs to be there at 6:30PM at 4717 Centennial Blvd.Nashville, TN 37209. This is the Continental Machinery Movers, INC. building. It will be a performance/party scene and it's going to be fun times!
