Staffers past and present look back at 30 years of music, milestones and memories at American Songwriter magazine.
Vernell Hacket
Editor-In-Chief, Co-Owner, 1984-2004
Deborah Evans Price
Associate Editor, 1986-1996
Michael Kosser
Columnist, 1984-2011
Robert Clement
Publisher, 2004-2012; Co-Owner, 2004-Present
Douglas Waterman
Editor-In-Chief, 2004-2008; Advertising Director, 2002-2004; Co-Owner 2004-present
Matthew S. Shearon
Editor-In-Chief, Co-Publisher, 2008-2010; Managing Editor, 2005-2008
Rachel Briggs
Art Director, 2006-2012
Davis Inman
Gear and Business Editor, 2008-2011; Contributing Editor, 2012-2013
Caine O’Rear
Editor-In-Chief, 2010-Present
Jamie Younger
Marketing Director, 2010-2012
Brittney McKenna
Intern, 2008; Writer and Editorial Assistant, 2014-Present
Alex Shoaf
Intern, 2009; Freelance Writer, 2010-Present
Mackenzie Moore
Art Director, 2012-Present
Caroline Acree
Operations Director, 2012-Present
Emily Maxwell
Intern, 2013-2014; Writer/Editorial Assistant, 2014-Present
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American Country musician Kenny Rogers (1938 – 2020) performs onstage at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, September 26, 1980. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) -
American country and western singer and musician Johnny Cash (1932 – 2003) performs on stage at the Painters Mill Music Far in Owing Mills, Maryland, September 29, 1977. He is strumming a guitar and standing in front of a microphone. Bassist Marshall Grant (1928 – 2011) of Cashs backing band The Tennessee Three plays behind him on the right. (Photo by Leffler/Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images) -
MTV Founder Bob Pittman, New York, New York, January 18, 1983. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images) -
NEW YORK – JANUARY 6: Rock and roll musician Elvis Presley performs on stage with his back up singers The Jordanaires on the Ed Sullivan Show on January 6, 1957 in New York City, New York. On the left are Jordanaires Neal Matthews Jr (1929 – 2000, far left) and Gordon Stoker (1925 – 2013). (Photo by Steve Oroz/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) -
Seminal American rock group The Byrds consisted originally of Jim (Roger) McGuinn, born 1942, David Crosby, born 1941, Michael Clark, born 1944, Chris Hillman, born 1944 and Gene Clark, born 1941. Their folk and pyschedelic tinged music was popular and influential during the late 1960s and early 1970s. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) -
From left, Paul McCartney (playing a Hofner 500/1 violin bass guitar) and John Lennon (playing a Gibson J-160E acoustic guitar) of English rock and pop group The Beatles perform on stage for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) music television show 'Shindig!' at Granville Studios in Fulham, London on 3rd October 1964. The band would play three songs on the show, Kansas City/hey-Hey-Hey!, I'm a Loser and Boys. (Photo by David Redfern/Redferns) -
ATLANTA, GA – FEBRUARY 20: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has digital treatments) Jerry Douglas, Jeff White, Johnny Warren and Shawn Camp of Earls of Leicester perform at City Winery on February 20, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by R. Diamond/Getty Images)
