Guy Clark is a national treasure and folk icon, crafting masterful, poignant melodies and insightful lyrics. Tough, bare-boned and dryly sentimental, his beautiful songs reflect the man himself and display an old-fashioned masculinity that emphasizes honesty, integrity and carefully chosen words. His craggy, wistful story-songs, and plain-spoken delivery are also indicative of his persona. Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Foundation's Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004, Clark was honored with the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting in 2005. The following year, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum named Guy Clark as its prestigious 2006 Artist-In-Residence. Workbench Songs (2006), released to universal critical acclaim and the delight of his worshipful fans, was nominated for the 2007 Grammy award as Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album.

Barry Massarsky has been monitoring, advising and strategizing for the music industry since 1981. Upon graduation from Cornell University with an MBA, he became the Senior Economist for ASCAP. In 1992, he formed a unique economic consulting firm whose long term clients include RIAA and SoundExchange in Washington, Warner Chappell, Universal Music Publishing Group, Universal Publishing Production Music and APM in Los Angeles, EMI, BMG, SONY/ATV and Spirit Music Group in New York and SESAC in Nashville. His firm provides strategic insights into performance royalty income and synchronization licensing for the publishing community as well as operating the leading valuation team for profiling catalog deal transactions. His partner, Ms. Nari Matsuura, is also a graduate of Cornell’s MBA program. His Senior Economist, Elon Altman, studied managerial economics at Cornell.

President & CEO of National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) Founded in 1917, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is the trade association representing American music publishers and their songwriting partners. The NMPA’s mandate is to protect and advance the interests of music publishers and songwriters in matters relating to the domestic and global protection of […]