Georgia Music Songwriters / Producers / Others B - D

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Bruce Burch was a songwriter from Gainesville, GA. Bruce landed a job writing songs at Famous Music in Nashville, which was owned by Paramount, then opened his own publishing company in 1991 - Bruce Burch Publishing. He co-wrote two #1 hits, recorded by Reba McEntire, "Rumor Has It", released in November 1990 and "It's Your Call", released in December 1992, as well as songs recorded by T. Graham Brown and others.

Jimmy Burch, a native of Douglas, GA, was a country and gospel music songwriter, engineer and producer. Burch co-wrote, engineered and produced recordings for B. J. Thomas, Debby Boone, Vern Gosdin, Ray Price, Little Anthony, The New Gaither Vocal Band and many others. He designed and built recording studios and has a catalogue of his own recordings. 

Kandi Burruss, an East Point native, is a singer songwriter who co-wrote "No Scrubs" recorded by TLC winning a Grammy Award for Best R & B Song in 2000, "Bills, Bills, Bills" recorded by Destiny's Child, " and "There You Go" recorded by Pink.  Burruss signed a record deal with Asylum Records and released her first EP in 2009, "Fly Above EP". Burruss was a writing contributor for the song "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran in 2017. 

Don Carroll is a singer, songwriter and record producer who began recording with Bill Lowery in Atlanta. He recorded "The God's Were Angry With Me" and penned and recorded on the flip side"At Your Front Door" on Capitol Records with Lowery promoting the record with no commercial success.  He released other singles but none charted. He began producing for Lowery and in 1969 produced the hit single "Color Him Father" by The Winstons recorded at Lowery's studio, which peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as the flip side "Amen, Brother. 

Michael Carter is a country music singer, songwriter and guitarist from Sylvester, GA. He's penned songs for Luke Bryan, Cole Swindell, Craig Campbell and Thomas Rhett. He is the lead guitarist and band leader for Luke Bryan.

Dru Castro is a 5x Grammy Award-winning recording engineer, producer and songwriter in Atlanta, Georgia. He has produced or engineered songs for artists such as Childish Gambino, Usher, Nelly, Anitta, Pentatonix, Ciara, Keyshia Cole, T-Pain, Trina, Jamie Foxx, Nelly, Lecrae and India Arie. In 2009 Castro produced, engineered and wrote all the songs with India Arie on her with the 3X Grammy (1X winning) nominated album Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics. In 2018 Castro won a Grammy as Engineer for Record of the Year on the song "This is America". To date Dru Castro has worked on 13 Grammy nominated projects (5 have won the award).

Born December 13, 1943 in Atlanta, Mike Clark was co-owner and manager of Southern Tracks Studios. In the 1960''s while Bill Lowery and he cultivated talent, Clark also was a session or touring drummer for the Classics IV's "Traces" and Billy Joe Royal's "Cherry Hill Park." In the '70s, he began producing records as his work with Lowery's thriving empire continued, working with such diverse acts as Starbuck and the Atlanta Pops Orchestra. Clark was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1999.

Dave Cobb (born July 9, 1974) is a record producer, songwriter and music executive who grew up on an island outside of Savannah, GA. He's produced work for Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, John Prine and a host of other notable music artists. Cobb is also a contributor to the six million-selling 2018 "A Star" Is Born soundtrack and produced "Always Remember Us This Way" for Lady Gaga.

Paul Cochran (Atlanta, GA) was a record producer and manager.  The Georgia Music Hall of Famer, has made tremendous contributions to Georgia music with artists like  The Classics IV, The Roeman and many others. He was co-owner with Buddy Buie and Bill Lowery of the publishing company, Low-Sal Publishing. 

Grady Cole was born on August 26,1909, near LaFayette, a northwest Georgia town with a population at the time of about 1500. After graduating from high school at nearby Trion, he moved to Rome, Georgia, where he worked in a textile mill for a living and studied and performed music as a hobby and second source of income. One of Cole's co-workers at the textile mill was a young lady named Hazel Key, who had been born and reared in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Cole and Key were married on August 18, 1930. Their song "The Tramp On the Street" was recorded in 1939 and was later made famous by Hank Williams and Joan Baez.

A native of Thomson, GA, Pat Cooper has always been drawn to all things Southern, family and music. Appreciating the little things in life – days at the lake, cold beer and a few friends to cut up with – Cooper is a simple man with endless dreams. Inspiration behind his music stems from his experiences growing up in a small town, to relationships to his motivation to “bring the real country of the old days back.” “The 1990s to the early 2000s were, in my opinion, the best years of country music ever,” says up-and-coming singer-songwriter Patrick Cooper. “I appreciate the emotions and feelings that those songs made you feel. I’d like to bring that fire of country back!” Cooper co-wrote Luke Comb's smash hit "This One's For You".

Ian Copeland (on your left in photo) was a record executive and promoter who lived in Macon, GA when he worked for the Paragon Agency booking tours for rock bands such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Charlie Daniels Band. 

Bryan-Michael Cox from Atlanta, GA is a record producer and songwriter known mostly for his work with Mariah Carey, Usher, Mary Blige and Toni Braxton. During his career Cox has been responsible for more than 100 million album sales, 35 number-one hits, and 12 Grammy Award nominations (including nine wins). For his contribution to the music industry, Cox was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

Mike Curb is a songwriter, record executive and music producer from Savannah, GA. For 58 years Curb has presided over his own independent record company which has launched the careers of numerous stars and is considered to be the oldest record company in the nation still being operated by its founder.

Dallas Davidson is a native of Albany, GA and is a country music singer songwriter. Davidson is one of the three Peach Pickers (Rhett Akins and Ben Hayslip) who has written songs for Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, Justing Moore, Blake Shelton and many other notable country music artists. Davidson received the 2012 ACM Songwriter of the Year; a 2012 ACM nominee for Song of the Year (for "Just a Kiss"); the 2011 BMI Country Awards’ Songwriter of the Year together with Rhett Akins. He is also a recipient of three CMA Triple Play Awards, one in 2010 and two in 2011; this award is given to songwriters who write three number-one singles in a one-year span

Bruce Dees is a guitarist, singer, record producer and music arranger from Augusta, GA. Dees is credited for contributions playing and/or for vocals on twenty six of Ronnie Milsap's #1 hit records. He also played or sang vocals on hits by Chet Atkins, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson and the list goes on. He has been a producer of albums by Kira Small, Lynn Anderson and others.

A State Farm Insurance Company agent for nearly three decades, Mike Dekle, a native of Athens, GA,  has balanced his career with ventures into country music songwriting. His songs have been covered by such country artists as Ricky Skaggs, T.G. Sheppard, Moe Bandy, the Whites, Hank Thompson, and Keith Whitley. Kenny Rogers has recorded a half-dozen of Dekle's tunes

Steve Dorff is a composer and songwriter who began his music career at Lowery Publishing (Bill Lowery) in Atlanta, GA. After graduating from the University of Georgia, Dorff would live in Atlanta for about four years, two years working and writing songs for Lowery, while at the same time learning the music industry. He decided it was time to move to Los Angeles to get involved with the music industry there and met Snuff Garrett to write the music score for a movie. That meeting would turn out to result into a phone call that would change Dorff's life. After meeting Clint Eastwood and gaining his approval of the song, he would ultimately score his first big hit with, "Every Which Way But Loose" for the movie starring Eastwood. Eddie Rabbit recorded the song which stayed on top of  the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart for three weeks, debuting at #18 in 1979, the highest debut since inception of the 100 position chart established in 1973. Since Dorff has written numerous hit songs recorded by Willie Nelson, Barbara Streisand, Eddie Rabbit, George Strait,  Kenny Rogers, Whitney Houston and many other notable music artists, as well as having a number of scores for movies. He was nominated for three Grammy Awards and five Emmy Awards. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.