40 years as a music-biz professional, a Grammy-nominated, BMI-Award-winning, million play songwriter, with close to 250 cuts, author of four books. www.randbishop.com
Rand Bishop is a Grammy-nominated, BMI Award-winning, Million-play songwriter with nearly 250 cuts to his credit, by such diverse artists as Tim McGraw, David Ball, Lorrie Morgan, Beach Boys, Heart, Cheap Trick, Indigo Girls, and Vanilla Fudge. Bishop’s My List, recorded by Toby Keith (co-written with Tim James) spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard country singles chart in the spring of 2002 and became country radio’s most played song for that year. Bishop and James also co-authored a companion book, My List (24 Reflections on Life’s Priorities), published by McGraw-Hill in 2003.
In his 40-year career, Bishop has filled just about every role in the creative end of the music business: recording artist (Elektra, A&M, MCA, Epic), session vocalist (Rita Coolidge, Cat Stevens, Ted Nugent, Beach Boys), producer (Outlaws, Kick Axe, Trent Summar, Rhythm Corps), A&R exec, and publisher.
Bishop’s book, Makin’ Stuff Up (secrets of song-craft and survival in the music-biz) was published in December ’08. Bishop is also an award-winning screenwriter and a produced playwright. Grand Pop, Bishop’s first novel, was published in June, 2010, and a second book for aspiring songwriters, The Absolute Essentials of Songwriting Success, was released by Alfred Publishing in October, 2010. Bishop continues to pursue a career as a writer, publisher, talent-development consultant, and music producer in Nashville.
Bishop's website is: http://www.randbishop.com
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