Friday Music Series: Jim McCormick

Artist Biography

Jim McCormick is a Grammy and CMA nominated, multi-platinum selling songwriter who has scored three #1 songs atop Billboard’s Country Radio Airplay chart: Gabby Barrett’s “The Good Ones”; Jason Aldean's “Take A Little Ride”; and Brantley Gilbert's "You Don’t Know Her Like I Do."

“The Good Ones” received the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year nomination and won Favorite Country Song at the American Music Awards that year. McCormick’s songs have been recorded by Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Cody Johnson, Jon Pardi, Jamey Johnson, Keith Urban, Harry Connick Jr., Kelly Clarkson, Randy Travis, Trisha Yearwood, Charlie Pride, Ronnie Milsap, Trace Adkins, and many others.

He has served as a board governor and vice-president for the Recording Academy and on the board of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. He is also an alumnus of Nashville’s Leadership Music.

For over a decade McCormick served on the faculty of Loyola University New Orleans where he taught “The Craft and Business of Songwriting.” He’s been a guest lecturer at Berkelee College of Music, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Belmont, Tulane, and other universities as well as GrammyPro and NSAI events.

He is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ “Poetry Prize” as well at the New Orleans Cutting Edge Music Conference’s “Lifetime Achievement Award.”

He earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of New Orleans. A native New Orleanian, he divides his time Nashville and New Orleans.

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