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Variety’s Power of Women Nashville Honors Five Top Songwriters
Variety Power of Women Nashville's inaugural top songwriters are Jessi Alexander, Jessie Jo Dillon, Natalie Hemby, Ink and Steph Jones.
Like our top four honorees — Kelsea Ballerini, Sheryl Crow, Mickey Guyton and Reba McEntire — and the 26 executives on our Impact list, we hope to spotlight different songwriters every time we bring this event to Nashville. 1 with Blake Shelton’s “Drink on It” — launching her on a path that led to her first nomination for the Grammys’ prestigious songwriter of the year, non-classical award, for hits by Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Dustin Lynch and Megan Moroney. Jessie Jo Dillon(Big Machine Music)One of the most successful tunesmiths of this era, Dillon has received six Grammy nominations, including one for the 2025 songwriter of the year, non-classical, for her work with Brandy Clark, Megan Moroney, Jelly Roll, Catie Offerman, Dan + Shay, Old Dominion, Hardy and Lori McKenna (and you can add Post Malone, Morgan Wallen, Kelsea Ballerini, Megan Maroney and loads more to the list of her recent work).
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