Buie Joins Thirty Tigers

BA-BA BUIE: Music industry veteran Kim Buie has joined the Nashville-based Thirty Tigers label to run the A&R department and manage her artist Jessie Baylin. Buie was head of A&R for Lost Highway for almost eight years, working with artists like Lucinda Williams, Ryan Bingham, William Burroughs, Hayes Carll, Elvis Costello, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Willie Nelson, Michael Franti, Etta James, T Bone Burnett, Freestyle Fellowship, Richard Thompson and more. In addition to working under Luke Lewis at Lost Highway, Buie’s mentors include Jimmy Bowen at MCA and Liberty and Chris Blackwell at both Island and Palm Pictures. Thirty Tigers is a 10-year-old company that provides project management, as well as publicity services, radio promotion, new media marketing services, financial modeling and distribution through Sony’s RED. Clients include Avett Brothers, Flogging Molly, Drive-By Truckers, Todd Snider, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Billy Joe Shaver, North Mississippi All Stars, Kathy Mattea and Jake Shimabukuro, among others. Contact Kim at [email protected] or (615) 664-1167. (9/12p)