Insider's View: Craig Wiseman

Craig Wiseman talks about his experiences as a songwriter in Nashville.

Originally recorded: 4/27/2011 in the Massey Performing Arts Center at Belmont University
Hosted by: Harry Chapman


Founder of Big Loud Shirt Industries, Craig Wiseman is one of today's most celebrated songwriters and has played a significant role in shaping Country music. To date, Wiseman has had well over 300 cuts, 100 singles, 19 #1's and has had songs on over 80 million records sold. He has also won countless awards, including a Grammy for Tim McGraw's 10 week #1, "Live Like You Were Dying", ASCAP's Songwriter Of The Year three times and CMA & ACM Song Of The Year awards in consecutive years. In 2009, Craig was honored by NSAI as the Songwriter Of The Decade. Craig has written songs for, among many others, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Beverly Knight, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton, Brooks & Dunn & Toby Keith.

In 1973, Belmont first established a music business program designed to prepare students for operational, administrative, creative and technical careers in the music industry. The program grew in both size and reputation, leading to the advent of the full Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business in 2003.

Currently home to more than 2,700 undergraduates with majors in music business, audio engineering technology, entertainment industry studies, sport administration, songwriting, media studies and motion pictures, Curb College boasts an impressive faculty of academic scholars and authors, entrepreneurs, songwriters, producers, journalists, filmmakers, sound and recording engineers and entertainment executives. The college serves as a world leader in music business and entertainment industry education and is the only freestanding college of its kind.

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