From Where I Stand Wyatt Easterling

• 1 From Where I Stand 04:57
• 2 I Know Who You Are 04:01
• 3 This Old House 03:46
• 4 Love Says It Best 05:10
• 5 So Have I 04:02
• 6 That's How She Moves Through This World 03:37
• 7 Where This River Goes 04:45
• 8 Bigger Than Dallas 04:34
• 9 Throw Caution to the Wind 04:50
• 10 Traveling Light 04:01
• Total Runtime 43:43

Info for From Where I Stand

Easterling is an older troubadour, songwriter & producer — but his warm vocal exudes experience & skillful singing & he can kick. While not as deep-voiced as Roger Whittaker, Wyatt approaches that shading with confidence especially in “From Where I Stand.” This is expertly written & the musicians provide exceptional backing.

Subject-wise Wyatt touches on the basics – love, loss, having to move on, freedom of speech & matters that listeners can relate to. There’s little imaginative wordplay & controversy but “I Know Who You Are,” has the songwriting finesse of the serious late Roger Miller (“River In the Rain”). This is where Wyatt resides in musical hothouses that result in musical blooms.

Wyatt first came to Nashville as a folk singer on the verge of signing with CBS Records, but in true industry fashion, Sony acquired the label, and the deal fell through. Undeterred, he signed on as a writer with a new publishing company opened by former CBS label head Rick Blackburn.

After a couple of years there, Blackburn brought him on as head of A&R at Atlantic Records where Wyatt signed some of country music’s biggest names including John Michael Montgomery, Tracy Lawrence, Michael Johnson and Neal McCoy. He also began working as a producer, guiding Montgomery’s debut album Life’s A Dance to an impressive three million copies sold. After Atlantic, Wyatt opened Bugle Publishing Group with partner Miles Copeland, where he signed a number of artists, most notably Keith Urban, Paul Jefferson and Paul Thorn. At Bugle, Wyatt also produced Thorn’s debut album Hammer and Nail and got the future superstar Urban his first record deal.

During that period, Wyatt and Miles had the inventive idea to turn a chateau in the south of France into a writers’ den they called “The Castle” where they began pairing their Nashville songwriters with big name artists like Carole King, Cher, Peter Frampton and Olivia Newton John. In time, Wyatt was ready to move on from the publishing world, and he signed as a writer with DreamWorks Publishing, API and EMI where he had numerous songs recorded by the likes of Dierks Bentley and Joe Diffie, including the gorgeous title track from Bentley’s album Modern Day Drifter.

After all of his time navigating the many facets of the music industry, it turns out his true destination was in fact to be a singer-songwriter. He started touring, including consecutive appearances as a finalist in the prestigious Kerrville New Folk contest, and he’s since recorded his two beautiful albums Where This River Goes and Goodbye, Hello. And now happily we have a third collection of songs by Wyatt Easterling in Divining Rod that we can all listen to it for years to come.

Wyatt Easterling

Wyatt Easterling
has enjoyed success in the music industry over the years as a performer and songwriter as well as a record label and publishing executive. His experience and success in all of these areas have given him a full understanding of what it takes to succeed in this industry.

Easterling’s songs have been recorded by: Dierks Bentley (”Modern Day Drifter”), Paul Thorn (Better Days Ahead), Joe Diffie (“Life’s So Funny,” “Wrap Me In Your Love,” “All Because Of A Baby Boy”), Billy Joe Royal (“If The Jukebox Took Teardrops,” “How Hard Can It Be?”), Neal McCoy (“This Time I’m Takin’ My Time”), Sons of the Desert (“The Devil's Been Working Over Time”) and hilljack (“This Could Get Good,” “Bigger Than Dallas,” “I Kissed Miss Mississippi,” “The Day Katherine Gregory Died” and ”Still”) among many others.

When Atlantic Records opened their Nashville offices, Easterling signed on as Chief of A&R. As a seasoned songwriter, Wyatt found that his new role as record company executive fed his art in a new way. “That position had a huge influence on me. I was listening to songs all day long constantly searching for what made a great song and where they fell short, and ultimately, what made a hit. I was working with some of the best songwriters, artists, musicians and studio engineers in the world. The opportunity to work in the studio with those artists was invaluable to me; I felt like I was given a million dollar education.” Easterling's track record of accomplishments included signing artists Tracy Lawrence, Michael Johnson, Neal McCoy and John Michael Montgomery to the label. Easterling produced Montgomery's multi-platinum debut album, Life’s A Dance, which has sold well over three million units worldwide to-date.

Following his tenure with Atlantic Records, Easterling partnered with Miles Copeland (the Police and Sting) to form the Nashville Division of Bugle Publishing Group and Firstars Management as Director of Operations. Easterling brought Keith Urban to Firstars Management, and worked at length with Urban in the studio recording the project that landed Keith’s first major deal at Warner Brothers Records. Easterling then brought alternative roots artist Paul Thorn into the company for management and publishing. Easterling produced Paul's album, "Hammer & Nail" along with Greg Wells and Billy Maddox for A&M Records, Los Angeles.

In addition to ushering notable artists into the mainstream, Easterling along with Copeland created Bugle Publishing’s Printemps de Troubadours, a first of its kind songwriter's retreat held twice a year at Miles Copeland’s Chateau de Mourette in France. This event saw great success with a long list of esteemed artists and writers such as Carole King, Peter Frampton, Cher, Olivia Newton John, Jon Bon Jovi, Stuart Copeland, and Keith Urban by pairing these artists with Bugle Publishing Group staff writers. “It was very satisfying be able to give my writers such an extraordinary opportunity to work outside the confines of Nashville. A lot of hits were written at “The Castle.” It’s quite a compliment too to see that event emulated by other songwriting groups throughout the world.”

Upon leaving Bugle Publishing Group, Easterling decided it was time to get back to the singer songwriter side of the street and signed with DreamWorks Publishing, and eventually with EMI, API Publishing and Considerable Music. He is currently writing, touring and producing fellow artist.

Easterling has three highly acclaimed albums under his belt: Where This River Goes, Goodbye/Hello, Divining Rod (Top 5 - Folk 2017) and is currently working on his forth recorded collection of songs due in 2019.

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