Rick Carnes

President - Songwriters Guild of America
Songwriter - "I Can't Even Get The Blues No More," "Long Neck Bottle"

Nashville songwriter Rick Carnes has served as president of The Songwriters Guild of America since 2003, and has represented the independent songwriter community in Washington, DC and throughout the country on every issue of importance to the music industry since that time. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Carnes and his wife, Janis, moved to Nashville in 1978. Soon after, the duo signed their first record deal with RCA records, later recording for Elektra Asylum, Warner Bros. and MCA records. In 1983, Carnes wrote Reba McEntire's first #1 hit "I Can't Even Get The Blues No More" and co-wrote with Janis and Chip Harding three top ten hits for the Whites: "You Put The Blue In Me," "Hangin' Around" and "Pins And Needles." Carnes also penned the mega-platinum hit "Longneck Bottle," included by Garth Brooks' on both his Sevens and Double Live albums; Steve Wariner's "Burnin' The Roadhouse Down" and "If You Don't Know By Now"; and Alabama's "When It All Goes South." He has also had success with recordings by Dean Martin, Conway Twitty, Karen Brooks, Loretta Lynn, Lacy J. Dalton, Johnny Rodriguez, Janie Fricke, Ronnie McDowell, T.G. Sheppard, Pam Tillis and many others.