Jeffrey Teague is an American music producer, publisher, and creative branding executive in Nashville, Tennessee. Some of his touring and recording credits include: Ricky Skaggs, Harry Chapin, Kathy Mattea, Keith Stegall, Ray Stevens, Steve Forbert, Lobo, and Paul Overstreet.
Teague received his education in instrumental performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and his education in business administration from Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Florida.
After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, he worked in some of New York’s premier venues and studios, as well as a musician in the Broadway productions of Oh Calcutta! The Best Little Whorehouse in TX, and Annie. Upon arriving from New York to Nashville, Jeffrey co-founded Stillman/Teague Music Productions serving as producer and managing partner. At Stillman/Teague, he was responsible for ongoing business management, account development, and company promotion. He delivered award winning advertising and audio/visual projects for Procter & Gamble, Fifth Third Bank, AT&T/BellSouth, AMC Theaters, Cincinnati Fine Arts Association, Acme Boots, TNN, PBS, and Cascom International.
Following Stillman/Teague, he served as managing partner and producer for Music Business, Inc., where Teague was responsible for company co-management and account development for internal and external business entities. There he produced creative elements for live events, publishing catalogues, and broadcast/media applications. His early Nashville vocal talent production credits include: T. Graham Brown, Pam Tillis, Trisha Yearwood, and Joe Diffie, while project highlights include: TNN video segments, Crook & Chase “Weekdays” theme, Hurricane Hugo PBS Special, and Acme Boot campaign.
In 1990, Teague became owner and president of Earworks/Overdub Music. During the next four years, he was responsible for Independent A&R, music production, publishing, artist development and showcasing. Teague developed songwriters, copyrights, and publishing catalogues licensed through ASCAP, SESAC, and BMI. He handled the negotiation and execution of contracts, as well as song and copyright licensing and registration. During this time his client roster included: Warner Chappell Music, Columbia Records, MCA/Universal, and Word Records.
From 1994-1999 Teague served as GM/Vice President for Word Nashville. His responsibilities included structuring, overseeing, and operating the firm’s Record Division and supervising the marketing and A&R staff. He represented his division and parent company, Gaylord Entertainment, for industry-wide events and functions. Teague was responsible for the presentation of completed projects at sales conferences and followed through with marketing, promotion, and branding campaigns to maximize exposure for each release. He provided A&R direction/executive production for projects featuring Collin Raye, Kenny Rogers, Chet Atkins, Michael W. Smith, Ricky Van Shelton, Skip Ewing, and Gary Chapman, and compilation projects featuring Patty Loveless, Rick Trevino, Shenandoah, Ricky Skaggs, and Doug Stone, among others, for sales and marketing in the Country and Christian marketplace.
From 2000-2007, Teague was Creative Director/Staff Producer for Seventeen Grand Studios in Nashville, a studio known for recording such artists as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jimmy Buffett, Shania Twain, Alison Krauss, Kenny Chesney, John Prince, Martina McBride, Travis Tritt, and Evanescence.
Since 2008, Teague has served as President and General Manager of Artist & Repertoire, LLC. The company provides outsourced A&R support and branding to industry organizations, business entities and artists, and is located in Nashville. Related projects include representing Jim Labriola, whose many credits include: Recurring TV cast roles on “Home Improvement”, A&E Specials “Comedy on the Road”, “Caroline’s Comedy Hour” and Feature Film roles in Disney’s “The Santa Clause” and “Joe Somebody” for 20th Century Fox.
His development and production work landed Alecia Elliot a recording contract with MCA/Universal, booking representation with CAA, and on-screen roles with “All About Us” and “Tom Sawyer”. Similar efforts led to the writing and production of the Emmy Award Winning “I Won’t Let My Guard Down” branding campaign for the National Guard featuring Darby Ledbetter. This campaign resulted in the placement of the music video in major theater chains nationwide and live performances at the Reagan Center in Washington, DC / NASCAR’s Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the 2010 World Series on FOX. Recording and touring credits include: Harry Chapin, Lobo, Ricky Skaggs, Ray Stevens, Kathy Mattea, Steve Forbert, Wet Willie, Jimmy Hall, and Paul Overstreet among others. Additionally, Teague’s production credits include Texas Music Market artists Sonny Burgess and Tommy Irvin, Celtic icon Liam O’Connor, and emerging country music social media star Bailey James.
Jeffrey Teague is a signatory and/or member affiliated with: CMA, GMA, NARAS Producers & Engineers Wing, American Federation of Musicians-AFM, and SAG-AFTRA, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SOCAN. In addition to his career in the music industry, Jeffrey Teague is a U.S. Army veteran.
Marissa Bond received her degree in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Over a span of six years, she worked at various music businesses including Riks Music & Sound, M&L Sound and F.Y.E. (Trans World Entertainment).
Marissa then expanded her knowledge of business management, branding, marketing, financial planning and accounting as the Office Manager at one of the largest architectural firms in East Tennessee, The Lewis Group Architects, LLC and FBMM Entertainment Business Management in Nashville
Marissa excelled in the role as Executive Assistant at Artist & Repertoire, LLC to launch and establish the company via administration & coordination of events, travel, vendors, music publishing and artist imaging.
Daryl Burgess is a Vancouver, Canada native who has called Nashville, Tennessee home since 1995. Prior to moving to Music City, Daryl landed his first number one hit (Just Came Back) – Colin James, which was awarded a Canadian Juno for single of the year in 1990. Right after arriving in Nashville, Daryl had several singles such as (This Heartache Never Sleeps) – Mark Chesnutt, (Never In A Million Tears) – T. Graham Brown, (I’m Diggin’ It) – Alicia Elliot and (The Bride) – Trick Pony. During his years on Music Row, Daryl has penned songs for EMI Music Group, BMG Music Publishing, Stage Three and noted producer Mark Bright’s Springfish Publishing.
Daryl is an accomplished drummer who tours with Mark Selby in the U.S. and abroad. He is a sought after recording session musician in Nashville, who also plays guitar and keyboards in addition to his work as a studio vocalist.
His collaborations include such names as: Will Jennings, Alanis Morissette, Jim Lauderdale, Tim Krekel, Lance Miller, Trent Willmon, Mark Collie, Randy Houser, Bryan White and Gretchen Wilson. His songs have been recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Joe Dee Messina, Irma Thomas, Paul Dean of Loverboy, Reba McEntire, Jamie O’Neal, Australian artist Rick Price and French Superstar Johnny Halliday.
Daryl’s cuts include recordings by John Michael Montgomery, Hank Williams Jr., Randy Houser, Van Zant and Angela Hacker. Daryl received the 2007 SOCAN Country Song of the Year award for (Big Wheel) recorded by Aaron Pritchett.
Daryl Burgess generated a stellar song catalogue for Rich N Rare Music, ASCAP, and for Artist & Repertoire, LLC, owned by Jeffrey Teague.
