{"id":12623,"date":"2014-08-19T22:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2014-08-19T22:40:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T05:40:18","slug":"sesac-signs-grammy-award-winning-songwriterartist-zac-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2014\/08\/sesac-signs-grammy-award-winning-songwriterartist-zac-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"SESAC SIGNS AWARD-WINNING ZAC BROWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12626\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ZAC-BROWN.jpg\" alt=\"ZAC-BROWN\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ZAC-BROWN.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ZAC-BROWN-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>SESAC SIGNS GRAMMY\u00ae AWARD-WINNING<\/h1>\n<h1>SONGWRITER\/ARTIST ZAC BROWN<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zac-Brown-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12624\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zac-Brown-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Zac-Brown-2014\" width=\"350\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zac-Brown-2014.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zac-Brown-2014-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Zac Brown, songwriter and frontman of the three-time GRAMMY\u00ae-winning and multi-platinum Zac Brown Band, has signed with SESAC for songwriter representation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a great respect for songwriting. It\u2019s one of the most powerful ways to reach people and to be able to write music, as my career, is one of the greatest gifts I could have asked for,\u201d said Brown. \u201cGreat songs accompany our most precious memories, bring us out of darkness, and connect us all. I\u2019m very excited about the ones cooking and our new team at SESAC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZac\u2019s excellence as a songwriter is well known, not just in the country music market, but across genres,\u201d says Trevor Gale, Senior Vice President, Writer\/Publisher Relations, SESAC. \u201cWe are proud to welcome him to the SESAC family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s most notable songwriting credits include \u201cToes,\u201d \u201cChicken Fried, \u201cColder Weather,\u201d \u201cGoodbye In Her Eyes,\u201d and \u201cSweet Annie,\u201d all chart-topping hits for Zac Brown Band.<\/p>\n<p>Since its major label debut in 2008, Zac Brown Band has become one of music\u2019s most heralded acts. The band&#8217;s three platinum-selling albums Uncaged (Atlantic\/Southern Ground), You Get What You Give (Atlantic\/Southern Ground) and The Foundation (Atlantic Records\/Home Grown\/Big Picture) have together sold more than 6 million copies and produced a historic series of eleven No. 1 hit singles. The band performed for more than 1.3 million fans in 2013 and is currently on the \u2018Great American Road Trip\u2019 tour, which included a two-night stand at Fenway Park without any support acts \u2013 a feat only accomplished by four other bands (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Jimmy Buffett &amp; The Coral Reefer Band, The Police and The Rolling Stones). The band&#8217;s latest project, The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1, is out now on Southern Ground and features a 45-minute film by Southern Reel on the making of the album.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1930, SESAC is a service organization created to serve both the creators of music and music users through music licensing and timely, efficient royalty collection and distribution. The second oldest and most progressive performing rights organization in the U.S., SESAC is known for its diversified repertory that includes genres ranging from Adult Contemporary, Urban, Jazz, Rock, Americana, Contemporary Christian, Latin, Country, Gospel, Dance, Classical and New Age. SESAC is the performing rights organization of choice among many of Hollywood&#8217;s most sought-after film and television composers. Headquartered in Nashville, the company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami and London. www.sesac.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SESAC SIGNS GRAMMY\u00ae AWARD-WINNING SONGWRITER\/ARTIST ZAC BROWN Zac Brown, songwriter and frontman of the three-time GRAMMY\u00ae-winning and multi-platinum Zac Brown Band, has signed with SESAC for songwriter representation. \u201cI have a great respect for songwriting. It\u2019s one of the most powerful ways to reach people and to be able to write music, as my career, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1058],"tags":[7500,2621,4470,4467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12630,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions\/12630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}