before helping them find homes at major labels. “There’s so many people that want that record deal, so helping someone get to that spot is one of the hardest things in the music business,” says Vaughn, 44. “So the job is to take away the nos and help that person get to a place where you get a yes.”
A father of three who enjoys listening to demos while sipping bourbon on his back porch in Brentwood, Tenn., Vaughn grew up in the tiny community of Sullivan, Ky., and comes from “a proud tradition of coal miners, teachers and mechanics.” As a high school student, he got a job as a weekend DJ at country radio station WMSK-FM, which set him on a path to Nashville. “I would devour the vinyl and read all the publishing and writer credits,” he says. “I thought, ‘I want to go where these people are.
Vaughn credits Hendricks with teaching him to fight for his roster. “He cared about every song because behind that piece of music is a creator who has labored so much,” he says. It’s an approach that still serves Vaughn today. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, he has launched Jody Williams Songs, a joint venture between WCMN and former BMI executive Williams, and signed, whom Vaughn had previously signed to EMI back when Rhett was still a student at Belmont.
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