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country MUSIC PEOPLE News NOVEMBER 2019 Volume 50 Number 11 Issue 597 Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London NASHVILLE PRODUCER AND SONGWRITER DEAD AT 43 Editor Duncan Warwick Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Tony Byworth, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Kelly Gregory, Michael Hingston, Stan Hitchcock, Tony Ives, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Alex Rossi, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Tom Travis, Walt Trott, Dave Watkins, Jack Watkins New release consultant: Steve Tidbury Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory Photographers Patricia Presley, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer Printed by Micropress www.micropress.co.uk Distributor Seymour International Press Distributors Ltd. 2 East Poultry Avenue London EC1A 9PT Telephone [phone] Country Music People is published the last Thursday of each month by KICKIN’ CUTS LIMITED 24 Darley Close, Wittering, Peterborough PE8 6EQ, UK Telephone [phone] - 783689 [email protected] www.cmpcountry.com ©2019 Kickin’ Cuts Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior written permission of the Publisher. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for statement of fact or opinion expressed by contributors. The views of the contributors are not necessarily those of Country Music People or its editor. 4 cmp - NOVEMBER 2019 T he producer, songwriter, multi- Hunt’s Storm instrumentalist, and record executive Warning in 2011. Michael James Ryan Busbee, known As well as a professionally as “busbee”, died on September myriad of pop 29 from a form of brain cancer called acts such as Glioblastoma with which he was diagnosed in Westlife, Gwen the summer. He was 43. Stefani, P!nk, and Katy Perry with whom he Born in California, busbee played piano and worked, busbee became one of the bigger trombone and studied jazz at university in New names behind the scenes in Nashville writing Jersey before settling in Los Angeles where songs for Lady Antebellum, Florida Georgia he learned many aspects of the recording Line, Scotty McCreery, Keith Urban and more industry and became proficient on guitar, bass, including the Grammy-nominated Maren Morris and drums. It was at the suggestion of fellow debut single My Church which he co-wrote with producer Dan Huff that busbee tried his luck in the up’n’coming singer. Morris tweeted, “This Nashville. Huff also signed him to a publishing just doesn’t seem fair. I will always love you deal. busbee’s breakthrough as a country and the songs and albums I was lucky to make songwriter in Nashville came courtesy of Sam with you, Busbee. Rest well, my sweet friend.” Dollywood lawsuit Dolly Parton’s East Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, is being sued by the copyright owners of The Charlie Brown Christmas theme song, Christmas Time Is Here, for allegedly using the song without permission in the park’s Christmas shows for more than ten years. The lawsuit suggests that the show has been using the Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi- penned song since at least 2007 and are seeking damages of “at least $150,000 for each performance” plus attorney’s fees.