J.D. Souther News

Singer Jay Black is 71. Actress Stefanie Powers is 67. Keyboardist Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer is 65.

The 47th annual ASCAP Country Music Awards -- ASCAP at the Ryman -- were held at country music's mother church, the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, before an audience of more than 1,500 distinguished songwriters, top country stars and music industry leaders.

View photos from the ASCAP awards presentation. ASCAP's official order of business at Nashville's Ryman's Auditorium Monday night was to honor its top country songs and songwriters of the past year.

All things music from the Tennessean.com entertainment staff. Belmont University graduate Ashley Gorley, who had a hand in penning Trace Adkins' "You're Gonna Miss This," Brad Paisley and Keith Urban's "Start A Band" and Darius Rucker's "It Won't Be Like This For Long," won the songwriter of the year award at Monday evening's American Society ofA ...

Middle Tennessean singer-songwriter J.D. Souther , who has penned hits including The Eagles' "Best of My Love" and "Heartache Tonight," solo smash "You're Only Lonely" and the Souther/James Taylor duet "Her Town Too," will receive a Golden Note award from ASCAP on Monday, Oct.

J.D. Souther, one of the principal architects of the Southern California country-rock sound, will be honored with the prestigious ASCAP Golden Note Award at the 47th annual ASCAP Country Music Awards, Monday, October 19, at Nashville's legendary Ryman Auditorium.

Songwriter J.D. Souther will receive the ASCAP Golden Note Award from the performing rights organization on Oct.

Even if you don't know JD Souther, you've heard his songs. One of the most gifted songwriters to emerge out of the Southern California country rock movement of the early 1970s, he co-wrote many of the Eagles' best-known songs, including "Heartache Tonight," "Victim of Love," "New Kid In Town" and "Best of My Love." And when the re-formed Eagles ...

One of the principal architects of so-called southern California country-rock, JD Souther famously played a key role in the formation of the Eagles and co-wrote several of their hits of yesterday and today.

Beth Nielsen Chapman's latest release, Prism , was inspired by Desmond Tutu's ideas on common humanity.