Two first-rate Nashville songwriters will join host Richard Leigh at the fifth annual Richard Leigh and Friends Singer-Songwriter Concert on Tuesday, March 10, at Martin Methodist College.
Rob Crosby and Gary Nicholson will take the Martin Hall Auditorium stage with Leigh for the 7 p.m. event. Tickets are $7 at the door, with all students – kindergarten through college – admitted free of charge.
Crosby, a native of South Carolina, has scored hits as both a writer and a singer, having penned Top 10 songs for Martin McBride (“Concrete Angel”), Andy Griggs (“She’s More”), and Lee Greenwood (“Holdin’ a Good Hand”) and then recording three of his own Top 10 hits: “She’s a Natural,” “Lover Will Bring Her Around,” and “Burnin’ For You.”
Having moved to Nashville 20 years ago, Crosby has also written songs that have appeared on albums by such artists as Brooks and Dunn, Trace Adkins, Bill Anderson, Restless Heart, Ty Herndon, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Martin Methodist alumnus Darryl Worley. He’s also had songs recorded by pop artists Paul Simon, the Osmond Brothers, and Carl Perkins.
Nicholson has had more than 450 songs recorded in various genres, including country hits “One More Last Chance” by Vince Gill and “The Trouble with the Truth” by Patti Loveless. Among the dozens of performers who have recorded his songs are such diverse stars as B.B. King, Conway Twitty, Etta James, Stevie Nicks, George Jones, Neil Diamond, New Grass Revival, Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, George Strait, the Neville Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, and Ringo Starr.
Along with writing number one hit songs, Nicholson has also been a two-time Grammy Award-winning producer for Delbert McClinton, who has recorded 25 of his songs, and also produced albums by The Judds, Wynonna, and Pam Tillis, among others.
Crosby and Nicholson will join Leigh – a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame who has written such legendary songs as “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue” by Crystal Gayle, “The Greatest Man I Never Knew” by Reba McEntire, “Somewhere In My Broken Heart” by Billy Dean (who was also the co-writer), and “That’s the Thing About Love” by Don Williams, which he co-wrote with Nicholson – as they take their turns singing their original songs and telling the stories behind them.
For more information about the concert, call 931-363-9815.
