The Franklin Theatre Songwriters Series welcomes Tom Douglas ("I Run To You", "The House That Built Me", "My Little Girl) and James T. Slater ("God Whispered Your Name", "In My Daughter's Eyes") on March 20!
About Tom Douglas
Tom Douglas is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and GRAMMY-nominated songwriter. After enjoying a 13-year career in commercial real estate, Douglas got his first song recorded by Collin Raye at the age of 41. That song, “Little Rock”, reached #1, earned a nomination for CMA Song of the Year and achieved the Million-Air award from BMI for receiving one million spins on country radio. Since then, Douglas has written numerous number one hits, including: “I Run to You” (Lady A), “Southern Voice” (Tim McGraw) and “The House That Built Me” (Miranda Lambert). The Grammy Award-winning song “The House That Built Me” remained at number one on the Billboard charts for four weeks and earned ACM’s first ever Song of the Decade award. Douglas was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2022, Douglas released his acclaimed feature film “Love, Tom” on Paramount+, which Rolling Stone dubbed, “a direct-to-camera, fourthwall- smashing marvel.” Love, Tom is currently available on AppleTV and Amazon Prime. Douglas is signed to Sony.
About James T. Slater
James Slater is a two time, grammy nominated, piano-playing, bilingual singer-songwriter of Bolivian American descent signed to BMG Music Publishing in Nashville, Tennessee. Born in Durham, North Carolina, and raised in the tropics of the Panama Canal Zone in Central America.
Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Enrique Iglesias, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Willie Nelson, Kelly Pickler, Alabama, Reba McEntire, Gloriana, Runaway June, Martina McBride, Chris Brown, Chris Young and a host of others have all recorded his songs. His Grammy nominations include Jamey Johnson's "The High Cost of Living", country song of the year, and Martina's “In My Daughter’s Eyes”, which has become a modern day standard.
James wrote Keith Urban’s hit single, God Whispered Your Name, and Tim McGraw’s God Moves The Pen…Kenny Chesney’s Wasted and Guys Named Captain as well as new songs on
Old Dominion and Hootie and the Blowfish albums as well as Warner Brother’s Shy Carter’s first single, Good Love. James calls Nashville home. James lived in Zurich Switzerland for six years touring, and recording with Belgian super group Vaya Con Dios and has traveled the world from Panama to Dublin, from Spain to Havana.
James’ “Key West Address" is a love letter to the island, so much so that the mayor of Key West has awarded James the "keys to the city" and proclaimed the song "Key West Address" the island's official theme.
James' latest solo album is Famous In Key West, which is available on Spotify and I Tunes….featuring new songs recorded at Jimmy Buffett’s Legendary Shrimp Boat Studios in the Conch Republic, Key West, Florida…