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CJ Solar was born and raised in Baton Rouge, LA. He moved to Nashville, TN in 2010 to attend Belmont University and has been there ever since. He currently is a staff writer for Edgehill Music Publishing. As a songwriter, CJ has co-written two #1 hits - “Up Down” recorded by Morgan Wallen featuring Florida Georgia Line and “Some Girls” recorded by Jameson Rodgers. He received the NSAI Award in 2019 for “Top 10 Songs I Wish I’d Written” for “Up Down” in 2019, and ASCAP Awards for “Up Down” in 2019 & "Some Girls" in 2020; and was nominated for Music Row’s Breakthrough Artist-Writer of the Year in 2019. He has, also, written two Texas #1’s for Mike Ryan & Kyle Parks and had songs recorded by Jason Aldean, Jerrod Niemann, Justin Moore, and others. His own single, “Airplane” was named by Rolling Stone Country as one of the “10 Best Country & Americana Songs of the Week”. His latest CD with the title track, "The Future's Neon" was released in 2022 and new music is already in the wings for release soon in 2023. As an artist, CJ was named Music Row’s Independent Artist of the Year in 2019. His previous singles, “Coming My Way” hit top 10 on Music Row charts and “American Girls” & “Watered Down Whiskey” top 15. He has garnered over 5 million Spotify streams and Rolling Stone Country named him as one of their “Artists You Need to Know”. He had his Grand Ole Opry Debut September 2019 and has opened for Gary Allan, Chris Janson, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd and others.

Rick Huckaby, know as "Huck", was born in Baton Rouge as the son of the legendary basketball coach, Rick Huckabay Sr, (Rick took the silent “a” out at the end of his last name as not to confuse the pronunciation) who previously coached at LSU. He has written two top 20 singles, "Beer With Jesus" for Thomas Rhett & "Muddy Water" for Trace Adkins. Rick has also had several major album cuts by Tracy Lawrence, Trace Adkins, Craig Morgan, Frankie Ballard and others. He also loves working with his Nashville based blues band, Big Shoes.