Alpine Helen Songwriters Festival

Dave Gibson

Gibson wrote or co-wrote the following songs:

Alabama: “Jukebox in My Mind”

Larry Boone: “Don’t Give Candy to a Stranger”

Confederate Railroad: “Queen of Memphis“, “Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind”

Joe Diffie: “Ships That Don’t Come In”

Gibson/Miller Band: “High Rollin’“, “Texas Tattoo”, “Red, White, and Blue Collar”, “Stone Cold Country”

James House: “That’ll Be the Last Thing”

Montgomery Gentry: “Lonely and Gone”

Southern Pacific: “Honey I Dare You“, “All Is Lost”

Pam Tillis: “Do You Know Where Your Man Is”

Tanya Tucker: “If It Don’t Come Easy”

Conway Twitty: “House on Old Lonesome Road”

Steve Wariner: “Midnight Fire“, “Don’t You Give Up on Love”, “Heart Trouble”

Reba McEntire: “Congratulations”

Earl Bud Lee

A million performance writer. His songs

“Friends In Low Places” (Garth Brooks and Mark Chestnutt)

”Who Are You When I’m Not Looking” (Blake Shelton and Joe Nichols)

”One Night At A Time” (George Strait)

”Uptown Down-Home Good Ol’ Boy” (Garth Brooks)

When Karen Comes Around” (The Oak Ridge Boys and Mason Dixon)

other recordings by (Tracy Byrd)

(The Randy Rogers Band)

(Buddy Holly, The Hollies and Steve Hooker)(Loretta Lynn)(Shawn Camp)

Pete Sallis

Originally from Chicago where he got his start in Rock and Christian music before moving to Nashville to pursue songwriting. He currently has cuts on Big Machine duo Maddie & Tae, 2012 American Idol winner Phillip Phillips, RCA RECORDS pop artist Betty Who, 3x Grammy Winner Keb Mo, Shenandoah, Ronnie Dunn, Bucky Covington, George Canyon, Canadian Duo Autumn Hill, Jo Hikk, Mama’s Blue Dress, Mark Cooke, and The Roys.

Alan Laney

Veteran singer songwriter with over 40 songs recorded by other artists. Most notably Shania Twain “There Goes The Neighborhood”, Kix Brooks, Brooks and Dunn “There’s a Telephone Ringing in an Empty House”, Grammy nominated “Georgia Peaches” Larry Sparks and Andy Griggs, Rosie Flores top 40 single “Somebody Loses Somebody Wins” other songs by Joe Diffie, Charlie Louvin of The Louvin Brothers, Brad Martin, Chad Austin, Rock Killough and McKnight Bro

Greg Crowe

Raised in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, Greg Crowe brings a compelling blend of blues, rock and country to Music City. Crowe is an award winning songwriter; credits include artists Montgomery Gentry, Sammy Kershaw, Adam Gregory, Will Hoge, Chuck Mead, Lonestar and most recently with Trace Adkins. His writing, production skills have also been put to use in many television commercials and Independent artists projects as well. Crowe is a SESAC affiliated writer/publisher who has been living in Nashville for the past 32 years.

Chancey Neal

Nashville-based country songwriter  artist from Calhoun, Louisiana, Chancie Neal, is a platinum-selling songwriter who also holds the record as the youngest World Champion Barrel Racer. Her most popular single on Spotify with over 100,000 streams, “Rodeo Money”, tells the story of her winning ways on the rodeo circuit as a kid while showcasing her musical talent as an adult. She also wrote the current single for Country artist Mae Estes “Drunk On That”. She landed a deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2012, wrote “Ducks in a Row” for the show Duck Dynasty in 2013 and her song “Hairy Christmas” recorded by Luke Bryan went platinum in 2014.

Ricky Whitley

An Original creator of Frank Brown International Songwriter’s Festival and a staple performer at most of its  yearly festivals when not performing in Europe and Scandinavia.  He’s a movie actor, comedian, and Star of HBO Television. He rights and performs acoustic Delta Blues and old country blues music. The Real “Americana” music.

Additional performing songwriters include: Chris Garner, Trey Teem, Justin Dukes, Eli Palmer, Tommy Joe Conner and more to be named.