PHANTOM OF THE OPRY

The folks at Big Machine Music and Red Bull celebrate their new publishing JV and the inking of songwriter/producer/musician Nathan Barlowe with this effervescent pic. You may know Barlowe as a tunesmith who's worked with Taylor Swift and Steven Tyler; you might recall him as member of Red Bull band Five Knives. Or perhaps you'll recollect Keith Urban's rapturous description of Barlowe's instrumental work on an electronic assemblage called The Phantom in a recent interview with us.

Seen thinking that a signing advance gives you wings are (back, l-r) Red Bull's Greg Hammer and Dasmarie Alvino and (front, l-r) Red Bull's Buffy Hubelbank, Barlowe and Big Machine Music's Mike Molinar.