Jason Duke and Friends

Singer-songwriter Jason Duke, grew up listening to The Eagles, James Taylor, John Prine, Dan Fogelberg and Jackson Browne. When his high school athletics career ended, he fell into a group of musicians that changed the course of his life forever. After graduating high school, Jason, a native of Hendersonville,TN, enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University. It took 6 years, a change of major, a bout with cancer, and a rejection from songwriting class, but he earned his B.S. in Recording Industry Management. While in his 20’s, Jason got his feet wet in the music publishing world. His time spent as a creative director exposed him to catalog pitching around town. Slowly, steadily, and organically, he began to circle up with writers that he would want to sign as a publisher. An early champion, Michael Martin, placed Jason in the ASCAP GPS program in 2012.

He landed his first publishing deal with Dan Hodges Music in January 2015, celebrated his first #1 hit with a song called “Dibs” (Kelsea Ballerini, Ryan Griffin, Josh Kerr, Jason Duke), and has a song on the Keith Urban’s album RipCORD titled “That Could Still Be Us.”

Source: The Listening Room