Matt Jenkins

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Not long ago, a recent high school basketball star, crazy about country music, was in Nashville with his father. It was six o'clock in the morning and they were sitting in their hotel room, dreaming. The reason they were in town had nothing to do with sports and everything to do with country music. The recent basketball star had grown up singing and playing guitar in the small theaters of the Texas “Opry” circuit and had immersed himself in the country music his father always had written and performed. That morning, they were contemplating listings in the Yellow Pages under the heading “Song Publishers.” Matt Jenkins -- born in Fort Worth, Texas, raised in Aledo, twenty miles west -- had been tempted to move to Nashville to pursue a music career straight out of high school. “I’d started playing guitar, and dabbling in songwriting, and singing,” he says. “And I was always recording. I was eaten up with it.” But he held off moving to Tennessee. Instead, Jenkins attended South Plains Junior College, near Lubbock, where he studied guitar, voice, songwriting and theory. After a year he left and returned to Aledo, where eventually Jenkins submitted a three-song demo to a Grammy/NARAS competition. His work shined: His demo made the final cut -- the only country artist chosen -- and later Jenkins was scheduled to perform, competing against the other aspirants. But right now his dad was calling publishers on his behalf. As it happened, the first call went out to Jody Williams, head

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Country Airplay 2005

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Promo Only: Country Radio July 05'

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Promo Only Country Radio July 2005

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Matt Jenkins

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Quarter Of A Century - EP

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Bad As I Want To - Single

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King Of The Castle - Single

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Promo Only Canada Country Radio July

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Promo Only Country Radio July

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Quarter of A Century-The Acoustic Sessions

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Bad As I Want To

Quarter Of A Century

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