Album Notes

Tia Sillers is a successful Nashille Songwriter. She's been lucky enough to have written a string of hit songs on multiple formats and to have won the Grammy for 2001 Country Song of the Year "I Hope You Dance". This CD is her first...listen to this girl sing some sweet old songs...heaven almighty!

As a Nashville teenager, Sillers got to hang out at the world renowned live music venue Bluebird Cafe. There she heard local writers like Don Schlitz and Alan Shamblin perform their music and she was mesmerized. Thinking herself a music lover and not a music writer, she went off to college in North Carolina and completed undergraduate degrees in English and Fine Arts, a Masters in Business Communications and also spent a semester in England interning for the BBC. Somewhere along the way she saw the light and came back to Nashville to pursue a publishing deal. Sillers capitalized in a diversity of influences and experiences that ultimately helped her craft some of the most poignant songs to emerge from Music Row.

Her song " I Hope You Dance", initially recorded by LeeAnn Womack, struck an emotional chord with listeners by capturing the essence of experiencing life. The song received national exposure on television with Oprah and in articles in Newsweek and the New York Times, as well as being performed at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony. It went on to win every conceivable award including the Grammy, CMA, ACM, NSAI, ASCAP and BMI song of the year. "I Hope You Dance" inspired a series of gift books of the same title that became bestsellers. The song is currently enjoying success in Europe and South America with the artist Ronan Keating.

Sillers has also had many cuts by other artists including Alan Jackson ( "That'd Be Alright" -- #1), The Dixie Chicks ( "There's Your Trouble" -- #1 and Grammy Nominated), Pam Tillis ( "Land of the Living" -- Top 5), Kenny Wayne Shepherd ( "Last Goodbye" -- Top 5, "Was" --Top 5, "Blue On Black" -- #1). Not only did "Blue on Black" hold the number one spot on the rock charts for 17 weeks, it was also the 1998 Billboard Rock Song of the Year. Other artists to have recorded Sillers songs include Martina McBride, Trace Atkins, Trisha Yearwood, Diamond Rio, Wynonna, Patty Loveless and Sister Hazel.

Sillers divides her time between Nashville, her Rocky Mountain getaway in Estes Park, CO. and doing a select number of performances at festivals and listening venues across North America. So far in 2005 she's already been on the Delbert McClinton Cruise, played a Festival in Zihuatineho, Mexico and done shows at Atlanta's famed venue Swallow in the Hollow. She is married to her frequent collaborator, singer-songwriter- recording artist Mark Selby and has a sleek black cat named Mortimer Merle. Her father Bob is co-owner of Caffe Nonna --the best little Italian restaurant in Nashville. She has been proud to call Famous Music her publisher for the last eight years and looks forward to her next adventure in music and life.