Trent Dabbs is an American singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 who was raised in Jackson

Jackson, Mississippi

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, but has been based in Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

 for his professional career. He co-founded the musical collective Ten Out of Tenn

Ten Out of Tenn

Ten Out of Tenn is a collective of singer/songwriters from Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 2005 by Kristen and Trent Dabbs. The collective has released multiple volumes, including a Christmas album and a benefit album for the 2010 Tennessee flood victims .The group's 2008 tour is the subject of...

 in 2005. Dabbs has released six solo albums and a self-titled collaboration album with Ashley Monroe

Ashley Monroe

Ashley Monroe is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two solo singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The singles "Satisfied" and "I Don't Want To" reached #43 and #37, respectively...

 since his move to Nashville. His first release in 2005, Quite Often, produced by Dennis Herring

Dennis Herring

Dennis Herring is an American record producer, engineer, mixer, and musician. Herring has produced for The Hives, Elvis Costello, Counting Crows, Modest Mouse, Camper Van Beethoven, and Jars of Clay. Herring owns a 24-track recording studio, Sweet Tea Studios, which is located in Oxford, Mississippi...

 won the ears of Alexandra Patsavas

Alexandra Patsavas

Alexandra Patsavas is an American music supervisor who has worked on over sixty films and television series, most notably The O.C., Grey's Anatomy and Gossip Girl.-Early life:Patsavas was born in Chicago, Illinois...

 and landed a spot on the TV show The O.C.

The O.C.

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 and an opening spot for R.E.M.

R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

 at the Ryman Auditorium

Ryman Auditorium

The Ryman Auditorium is a 2,362-seat live performance venue, located at 115 5th Avenue North, in Nashville, Tennessee and is best known as the historic home of the Grand Ole Opry....

.

Since then his songs have been played in several TV shows, including Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

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, Private Practice, One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill (TV series)

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, Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars

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, and Hawaii Five-0 and also the motion picture Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth (2008 film)

Nothing but the Truth is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Rod Lurie. According to comments made by Lurie in The Truth Hurts, a bonus feature on the DVD release, his inspiration for the screenplay was the case of journalist Judith Miller, who in July 2005 was jailed for contempt of...

.

In addition to Dabbs' career as a singer, he has also co-written several songs with other artists.

Songwriting credits

Songs Trent Dabbs has written/co-written:

• Mat Kearney
  Mat Kearney
  Mathew William "Mat" Kearney is an American musician born in Eugene, Oregon, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Kearney has received critical acclaim and widespread recognition for his Columbia Records debut, Nothing Left to Lose. So far, he has a total of four top 20 hits on the Adult Top 40...
  
  : "Lifeline" "Never Be Ready" (from City of Black & White)
• Ashley Monroe
  Ashley Monroe
  Ashley Monroe is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two solo singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The singles "Satisfied" and "I Don't Want To" reached #43 and #37, respectively...
  
  : "Everything I Wanted" "Shine" (unreleased)
• Andrew Belle
  Andrew Belle
  Andrew Belle is an American singer-songwriter. Andrew is originally from Wheaton, Illinois. Andrew moved to Nashville in 2009. He grew up listening to bands like Third Eye Blind, Counting Crows, and The Verve Pipe, and looks to these bands for musical inspiration.Andrew began his musical career...
  
  : "Add It Up" (from The Ladder)
• Dave Barnes
  Dave Barnes
  Dave Barnes is an American rock-R&B-contemporary Christian singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee.-Early life:...
  
  : "Look So Easy" (from "What We Want, What We Get")
• Katie Herzig
  Katie Herzig
  Katie Herzig is a Grammy award nominated singer-songwriter from Fort Collins, Colorado.-Early life:Katie Herzig was born in California to a musical family. When she was a year old her family moved to Fort Collins, Colorado where she attended Rocky Mountain High School...
  
  : "Holding On" (single)
• Matthew Perryman Jones
  Matthew Perryman Jones
  Matthew Perryman Jones is an American singer-songwriter who currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.Jones began his career as a singer-songwriter in 1997, playing his first public performances at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA...
  
  : "Rain or Shine" (from "The Distance In Between) & "Out of Reach" (single)
• Natalie Grant
  Natalie Grant
  Natalie Grant is a singer-songwriter of contemporary Christian music. Her work has gained prominence, including four consecutive Dove Awards for best female artist, and with her signature song, Held...
  
  : "Someday Our King Will Come" (from Revolution')
• Joy Williams: "Charmed Life" (from One of Those Days), "Turnaround" & "Golden Thread" (from "Songs From This" - EP), "We Are" (single), "More Than I Asked For" (single)
• Michelle Featherstone
  Michelle Featherstone
  Michelle Featherstone is a British American singer-songwriter. Born in Chester, England, and raised in Cambridge, England, Featherstone now resides in Hollywood, California. She began studying piano and composing original music at the age of nine...
  
  : "10 Stories Down" (from Blue Bike')
• Andy Davis: "Belivable Doubt" (from Let The Woman) "Where My Head Is" (from "New History")
• Josh Wilson
  Josh Wilson (musician)
  Josh Wilson is a contemporary Christian musician from El Dorado, Arkansas. He is best known for the radio singles "Savior, Please" from his 2008 album Trying to Fit the Ocean In a Cup and "Before the Morning" from his 2009 EP, Life is Not a Snapshot....
  
  : "Let Me Love You" (from Josh Wilson)
• Amy Stroup: "I'm In" "Come On Back" "Just You" "Chin Up" (from The Other Side Of Love)
• Gabe Dixon: "On A Day Just Like Today"
• Matt Wertz
  Matt Wertz
  Matt Wertz is a singer/songwriter. Originally from LaVale, MD he now calls Nashville, Tennessee, home. Wertz's interest in music started when he was young, but it was his interest in visual art that led him to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he graduated with a degree in...
  
  : "Keep Faith" (from Under The Summer Sun)

Discography

• Quite Often (2004)

1. Abigail
2. Diamonds Don't Shine
3. It's Not Like That
4. On Heavy
5. Yesterday's Apology
6. Quite Often
7. January Lights
8. Worst Fears
9. TV Jealousy
10. The Love Goes

• What's Golden Above Ground (2006)

1. Harlem Rosewood
2. What's Golden Above Ground
3. Riverbell Garden
4. Fireworks In Virginia
5. Your Guess
6. Sylvan Park
7. Forward Looking Back
8. Translation
9. Watching Brooklyn

• Decade Fades (2008)

1. The Water
2. New Morning
3. Helpless State
4. Sleepwell Chicago
5. Stare At A Stranger
6. Shine

• Your Side Now (2010) (Produced by Thomas Doeve)

1. Wake Up Call
2. Dear Jane
3. Your Side Now
4. Rain or Shine
5. Inside These Lines
6. Red Colored Roses
7. Nothing Left To Leave
8. Wishful Thinking
9. Look Back On (iTunes bonus)

• 'Transition (2010) (Produced by Thomas Doeve)

1. Off We Go (featuring Erin McCarley)
2. Same Way Twice
3. Counting Sleep
4. One Light Wondering
5. Call It What It Is
6. Until You Won Me Over
7. Looking Up

• Southerner (2011) (Produced by Jeremy Bose)

1. Leave To See
2. Keep Me Young
3. Don't Blame Love
4. Catch Me Up To Speed
5. Neil Young
6. Follow Suit
7. Me & God
8. Can I Cross Your Mind
9. Paper Trails
10. Southerner

TV Placements

Bones

Keep Me Young

Grey's Anatomy

Your Side Now

Ghost Whisperer

Inside These Lines

One Tree Hill

Until You Won Me Over

Inside These Lines

Odds Of Being Alone

Look Back On

Same Way Twice

This Time Tomorrow

Take It All In

Follow Suit

Hawaii Five-0

Leave To See

Life Unexpected

Odds Of Being Alone

World Of Jenks

Odds Of Being Alone

The Chase

Call It What It Is

The Vampire Diaries

Counting Sleep

Last Kiss

Means To An End

Losing Ground

The Mountain

Yesterdays Apology

The OC

Love Goes

October Road

It's Not Like That

What's Golden Above Ground

The Hills

What's Golden Above Ground

Pretty Little Liars

Counting Sleep

Stay By Me

Follow Suit

Turn Our Eyes Away

Private Practice

This Time Tomorrow

So You Think You Can Dance

Inside These Lines

Parenthood

Odds of Being Alone

External links

• TrentDabbs.com - Official website
• Biography - By Trent Dabbs