Odie blackmon biography

Odie Blackmon

Recording Industry Associate Professor Odie Blackmon is the coordinator of the department’s songwriting concentration and its sole full-time faculty member.

He is also a Grammy-nominated songwriter who has won the Country Music Association’s Single of the Year. His songs have been on albums that have sold more than 20 million copies and he has also been a music publisher and producer.

His work has been praised in media outlets from CMT.com to The New York Times.

American Songwriter says he is "not only a great song craftsman and hit writer, but also an accurate, understandable communicator of the songwriting process and its flow."

He earned his first cut on MCA Records while earning a bachelor’s degree from MTSU’s Recording Industry Department.

He later earned a master’s degree from Vanderbilt.  He became a lecturer at Vanderbilt in 2010 and returned to teach full-time at his alma m