Country Music
— l CASH BOX APRIL 15, 1995 23 COUNTRY MUSIC News Feature Norman Renews In Nashville Jim Ed Norman, president of Warner/Reprise Nashville, has renewed his contract, putting him at the helm of the company’s Nashville operation for another five years. Norman joined Warner Bros. Records in 1983 as senior vice president, A&R, and in 1984 took over as head of the division. He was named presi- dent of the Nashville division in 1989. During his tenure, the label has enjoyed unprecedented growth with such artists as Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakam, Jim Ed Norman Take 6, Travis Tritt, Little Texas, Faith Hill, David Ball, Jeff Fox- worthy and many others. He was also instru- Trisha Yearwood: mental in the division’s expansion into a number of new musical arenas, including gospel and Thinkin’ About Platinum. ..Again contemporary Christian music with the Warner Alliance label and Western music with Warner By Richard McVey Western. Commenting on the contract renewal, AS HER CURRENT MCA ALBUM Thinkin' Thinkin ’ About You is sure to be the latest and Danny Goldberg, chairman and CEO of About You holds its place atop the Cash Box possibly most prominent feather in Yearwood’s Warner Bros. Records, remarked, “The Country Album chart, Trisha Yearwood has seen cap. Warner Bros, and Reprise Records success story her career blossom into one of country music’s Referring to her 1994 marriage to The Maver- in Nashville has largely been the doing of one hottest and top-selling female acts with her first icks’ bass player, Robert Reynolds, Yearwood says ‘ man—Jim Ed Norman.
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