{"id":3590,"date":"2022-05-12T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T18:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/?page_id=3590"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:19:36","slug":"lee-thomas-miller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/lee-thomas-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Thomas Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lee Thomas Miller <\/strong>has charted 15 years\u2019 worth of chart singles with, to date, seven of them reaching #1. These songs have recorded radio plays in excess of 10 million spins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in music theory\/composition from Eastern Kentucky University. It was there that he studied classical violin, guitar, piano and voice. He was inducted into the EKU \u201cHall of Distinguished Alumni\u201d in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently he co-wrote the Brothers Osborne single \u201cIt Ain\u2019t My Fault,\u201d which reached the top 10 and earned the Brothers\u2019 a Grammy for their performance as well as the Brothers\u2019 current top 30 single \u201cShoot Me Straight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee is a three-time Grammy Award nominee and has won other major industry awards including Song of the Year at the Country Music Association awards (in Nashville) and Academy of Country Music awards (in Las Vegas) as well as Music Row Magazine and Nashville Songwriters Association International annual awards. He has also won multiple \u201cSongs I Wish I\u2019d Written\u201d awards as voted on and given by the Nashville Songwriters Association as well as 10 BMI awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee is a former President of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). For the last 15 years he has spent time in Washington D.C. representing and lobbying for the rights of the American songwriter. He has testified before Intellectual Property committees in both houses of U.S. congress as well as sit down meetings with White House cabinet members and advisors from multiple administrations, Dept of Justice officials (including Assistant Attorney Generals), and countless bureaucrats from the U.S. Chamber of Congress to the Register of Copyright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2015 Lee was presented with BMI\u2019s inaugural Champion Award for legislative efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee has had success also as a record producer. He produced a pair of top 20 hits on recording artist Steve Holy including his 2006 #1 record \u201cBrand New Girlfriend.\u201d Lee lives in Brentwood, Tennessee with his wife of 26 years, Jana, and their four kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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