Tim DuBois is a Nashville-based music executive. He attended Oklahoma State University and received a B.A. and M.A. in Accounting. He then entered into the music business and has taken part in multiple aspects of the industry including songwriting, record labels, management, and production. DuBois has been recognized for numerous honors and awards for his contributions to the music industry.

Early career

DuBois became a Certified Public Accountant in the 1970s and moved to Texas, where he held positions with Arthur Anderson & Co. and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

In 1977 DuBois moved to Nashville, TN to foster his interests for songwriting and music. From 1977 to 1985 DuBois worked as both a publishing company staff writer and as an accounting professor at several universities including Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

, Tennessee State University

Tennessee State University

Tennessee State University is a land-grant university located in Nashville, Tennessee. TSU is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee.-History:...

, University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...

. Throughout that time period DuBois composed over 20 country singles. Five of those singles including Alabama’s "Love in the First Degree

Love in the First Degree

"Love in the First Degree" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It is included on their fourth studio album Wow! and was released as its second single except in the U.S., where it was the album's third single...

", "The Bluest Eyes in Texas

The Bluest Eyes in Texas

"The Bluest Eyes in Texas" is the title of a song written by Tim DuBois, Dave Robbins and Van Stephenson, and recorded by American country music group, Restless Heart. It was released in May 1988 as the lead single from their album Big Dreams in a Small Town. It hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Country...

" by Restless Heart

Restless Heart

Restless Heart is an American country music band established in 1984. The band's original members were John Dittrich , Paul Gregg , Dave Innis , Greg Jennings , and Verlon Thompson...

 and She got the goldmine (I got the shaft)

She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)

"She Got the Goldmine " is the title of a song written by Tim DuBois and recorded by American country music singer Jerry Reed. It was released in June 1982 as the third and final single from the album, The Man with the Golden Thumb. A satire on divorce, the song became Reed's third and final No...

 by Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed

Jerry Reed Hubbard , known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films...

 reached #1 chart positions.

DuBois opened the Nashville branch of Los Angeles-based artist management firm Fitzgerald-Hartley in 1986. Country singer Vince Gill

Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

 soon joined the company’s inaugural client, Restless Heart. DuBois and Gill collaborated on some songwriting projects including 1992 Country Music Association's Song of the Year "When I Call Your Name

When I Call Your Name (Vince Gill song)

"When I Call Your Name" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. Released in May 1990, it was the third single and title track from the album When I Call Your Name. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart...

."

In 1993 Clive Davis

Clive Davis

Clive Davis is an American record producer and music industry executive. He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. From 1967 to 1973 he was the President of Columbia Records. He was the founder and president of Arista Records from 1975...

, founder of Arista Records

Arista Records

Arista was an American record label. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operated under the RCA Music Group. The label was founded in 1974 by Clive Davis, who formerly worked for CBS Records...

, appointed DuBois to open the Nashville chapter of the label. Arista Nashville sold 80 million albums in its first eleven years of business, breaking acts like Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

, Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn was an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, who were both vocalists and songwriters. They were paired by record producer Tim DuBois in 1990. Before the duo's foundation, both members of the duo were solo recording artists...

, Pam Tillis

Pam Tillis

Pamela Yvonne "Pam" Tillis is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of country music singer Mel Tillis....

, Diamond Rio

Diamond Rio

Diamond Rio is an American Country music/Christian music band formed in 1984 in Nashville, Tennessee. Since its foundation, the group has comprised the same six members: Gene Johnson , Jimmy Olander , Brian Prout , Marty Roe , Dan Truman , and Dana Williams...

, Steve Wariner

Steve Wariner

Steven Noel "Steve" Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records...

, and Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley

Brad Douglas Paisley is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His style crosses between traditional country music and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references....

. DuBois later joined producer Tony Brown to run Universal South Records., launching the careers of Joe Nichols, Cross Canadian Ragweed

Cross Canadian Ragweed

Cross Canadian Ragweed was an American Red Dirt/Texas Country/Country rock band. The name of the band came from the combination of three band members' names, Grady Cross , Cody Canada , and Randy Ragsdale . Jeremy Plato's name was not involved in the band naming...

, and Shooter Jennings

Shooter Jennings

Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings is an American singer-songwriter active in the country music and Southern rock genres as well as making his first foray into psychedelic rock in 2009...

.

Career Today

In 2007, DuBois returned to the faculty of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, where he is developing courses related to the music business. He has also joined forces with Marc Dottore to form Dottore-DuBois Artist Management, dedicated to providing their clients with the tools and guidance to navigate and thrive in the music industry of the 21st century. DuBois currently resides in Nashville, TN.

In February 2010 ASCAP announced they would elevate their Nashville outlet to a Regional Office, led by DuBois. DuBois currently holds the position of Vice President and Managing Executive..

Organizations

DuBois currently serves on the boards of the Country Music Association

Country Music Association

The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...

, Academy of Country Music

Academy of Country Music

The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...

, Americana Music Association

Americana Music Association

The Americana Music Association is a trade organization developed to provide professional support and to promote awareness of Americana music. Toward these ends the organization works with artists, radio stations, record labels, publishers, and others to create networking opportunities and to...

, SunTrust Bank, and as chairman of the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau. He is a past board member of Leadership Music, Country Music Foundation

Country Music Foundation

The Country Music Foundation chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and education surrounding Country Music. The CMF currently employs more than 70 full-time professionals and is "the world's largest research center devoted to a...

, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Nashville Songwriters Foundation

Nashville Songwriters Foundation

The Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization foundation for the Nashville music community. Songwriters are inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame each year and the foundation's purpose is to "educate, archive, and celebrate the contributions of the members...

, and Nashville Songwriters Association International

Nashville Songwriters Association International

The Nashville Songwriters Association International is a 501 not-for-profit trade organization that works to help songwriters in three ways: through legislative advocacy, through education and advice about the actual craft of songwriting, and through teaching about the music industry, and how to...

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Awards and recognition

Tim DuBois has been recognized as “Record Executive of the Year” by Pollstar

Pollstar

Pollstar is a concert tour industry's leading trade publication that gets its information primarily from the agents, managers and promoters who are producing concerts. Founded in 1981, it is based in Fresno, California and has an office in London with correspondents in six countries. Pollstar is...

, and one of the entertainment industry’s “101 Most Powerful People” by Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...

. He was inducted into Oklahoma State University’s Hall of Fame in 1996. Throughout his songwriting career, DuBois has earned 5 number 1 singles, 24 Top Ten Singles, 6 ASCAP Awards, 9 BMI

Broadcast Music Incorporated

Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...

Country Awards, 2 BMI Pop Awards and a number of other songwriting accolades.

Songwriting Awards

Organization	Award	Song	Date
Country Music Association	Song of the Year	“When I Call Your Name”	1991
Academy of Country Music	Song of the Year Nomination	“When I Call Your Name”	1991
Grammy Awards	Song of the Year Nomination	“When I Call Your Name”	1991
Music City News Awards	Single of the Year	“When I Call Your Name”	1991
Nashville Songwriters Association International	Award of Merit	“When I Call Your Name”	1991
Academy of Country Music	Song of the Year Nomination	“She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)”	1982
Grammy Awards	Song of the Year Nomination	“She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)”	1982
Nashville Songwriters Association International	Award of Merit	“She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)”	1982
Academy of Country Music	Song of the Year Nomination	“Love in the First Degree”	1982
Music City News Awards	Top Country Hits Awards	“Love in the First Degree”	1982
Nashville Songwriters Association International	Songwriter of the Year Finalist		1982

Discography

Title	Artist
A Good Nights Love	Tammy Wynette
A Good Old Fashioned Saturday Night Honky	Vernon Oxford
Tonk Barroom Brawl	Vernon Oxford
Back To The Heartbreak Kid	Kathy Mattea
Back To The Heartbreak Kid	Restless Heart
Big Dreams In A Small Town	Restless Heart
Blind Faith And The Naked Truth	Razzy Bailey
Blue Rendevouz	Lloyd David Foster
Crazy Blue	Billy Montana
Dancys Dream	Restless Heart
Don't Ask The Reason Why	Secret Of My Success
D-R-U-N-K	David Allen Coe
Few And Far Between	Restless Heart
Gone Away	Steve Ripley
Hard Times	Restless Heart
Have Your Memory Come Again	Kenny Dale
Heartbreak Kid	Juice Newton
Heaven Sent	Sylvia
Heaven Sent	Bryan White
Hummingbird	Ricky Skaggs
Hummingbird	Restless Heart
I Forgot How Bad My Good Woman Can Be	Razzy Bailey
I Love The Way She Keeps Me In The Dark	Conway Twitty
I Was Meant To Be With You	Diamond Rio
It's Been One Of Those Days	Bobby Vinton
It's Been One Of Those Days	Lang Scott
I've Never Been So Sure	Restless Heart
Jenny Come Back	Restless Heart
Jesse's Soul	Radney Foster
Julie Do I Ever Cross Your Mind	Wood Newton
Let The Heartache Ride	Restless Heart
Love In The First Degree	Alabama
Love The Hurt Away	Wood Newton
Love Will Get Your Through Time With No Money	The Girls Next Door
Midnight Hauler	Razzy Bailey
Oklahoma Swing	Vince Gill & Reba McEntire
Quittin Time	Asleep At The Wheel
Restless Heart	Juice Newton
Restless Heart	Restless Heart
Say You'll Stay	Wayne Massey
She Got The Goldmine	Johnny Paycheck
She Got The Goldmine	Jerry Reed
She's Got A Drinkin' Problem	Gary Stewart
She's Got A Drinkin' Problem	Johnny Paycheck
Somewhere There's A Love Song	Charlie Rich
Southern Comfort	Joe Stampley
Straight For Your Love	Terri Heart
Sweet Temptation	The Kendalls
Sweet Red Wine	Gary Morris
Tell Your Dream To Me	Marty Robbins
The Bluest Eyes In Texas	Restless Heart
The Boys On A Roll	Restless Heart
The Truth Hurts	Restless Heart
This Road	Mike Reid
This Time	Restless Heart
Too Many Hearts In The Fire	Bobby Smith
Tryin To Get To New Orleans	The Tractors
Unconditional Love	Glen Campbell
Vicitim Of The Game	Restless Heart
We Owned This Town	Restless Heart
When I Call Your Name	Vince Gill
Who Better Than an Angel	Janie Frickie
Working Woman	Rob Crosby
You Seen One You Seen'em All	Bettye Lovette
You Seen One You Seen'em All	Ruth Ann
You've Got The Touch	Lloyd David Foster

Record Production Credits

Artist	Title	Record Label	Date	Award/Recognition
Blackhawk	Strong Enough	Arista Records	1996	Certified Gold
Diamond Rio	IV	Arista Records	1995	Certified Gold
Blackhawk	Blackhawk	Arista Records	1994	Certified Double Platinum
Diamond Rio	Love A Little Stronger	Arista Records	1994	Certified Platinum
Diamond Rio	Close to the Edge	Arista Records	1993	Certified Gold
Steve Wariner	Drive	Arista Records	1993
Diamond Rio	Diamond Rio	Arista Records	1991	Certified Platinum
Exile	Justice	Arista Records	1991
Steve Wariner	I Am Ready	Arista Records	1991	Certified Gold
Restless Heart	The Best of Restless Heart	RCA Records	1991
Exile	Still Standing	Arista Records	1990
Restless Heart	Fast Movin’ Train	RCA Records	1990	Certified Gold
Restless Heart	Big Dreams In A Small Town	RCA Records	1988	Certified Gold
Restless Heart	Wheels	RCA Records	1986	Certified Gold
Restless Heart	Restless Heart	RCA Records	1985

Song Production Credits

Title	Artist
(Back to The) Heartbreak Kid
Big Dreams In A Small Town
Gone Away
Heaven Sent
Hummingbird	Restless Heart
Hummingbird	Ricky Skaggs
I Was Meant To Be With You
Jesse’s Soul
Love In the First Degree
Midnight Hauler
Oklahoma Swing
Quittin’ Time
She’s Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaf)
She’s Got A Drinking Problem
The Bluest Eyes In Texas