The Swallow At The Hollow

Stan Webb

Stan Webb was born in Murfreesboro, TN., and raised in Nashville TN.  He started writing songs at age 14, influenced by artists like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Don Williams, Tom T. Hall and many others.  He worked hard at his craft for years and got his first cut in 1984, by George Jones, a song titled, “One Of These Days But Not Tonight”, which landed him the award for SESAC’s most promising country writer.  It also pushed him closer to the mainstream of country music in Nashville.  He continued to get cuts by artists like Marie Osmond, T.G. Shepard, Terri Gibbs, The Forrester Sisters, The Osmond Brothers, Silvia, Michael Johnson, Pam Tillis, Kippi Brannon, and many others.  Stan also had a cut in the movie “Thelma and Louise”, that he wrote with Pam Tillis called “Drawn To The Fire”.
His most successful song to date is “I’m From The Country” by Tracy Byrd, which earned him the 1998 SESAC Country Song Of the Year Award, and helped him get another song recorded by Tracy called “Summertime Fever” which can be found on the album “Ten Rounds”.  Stan not only works with other successful writers and artists, he also enjoys writing with new young writers and artists just getting started.  He loves their enthusiasm and drive,
Stan was also blessed with SESAC’s “Legacy” award in 2003, only the third writer to receive it in 75 years.  Stan Webb has his own style of writing that he hopes and prays somewhere down the road, two writers will enter a room on music row, and one will say, “Let’s write a song like a Stan Webb song.”  Stan says, “Now that’s what success is to me.”

Diana Kelley

Originally from northwest Indiana, Diana spent several years playing in the theatres in Branson before relocating to Nashville where she could focus on songwriting on a full-time basis.
In the past five years, Diana has been awarded many awards and accolades, from being chosen to attend Skip Ewing’s Horse and Writer Invitational on a full scholarship, to being awarded the Grand Prize in the NSAI / CMT Song Contest in 2008.
This year Diana has had 5 songs recorded on independant projects by artists from Savannah GA to Los Angeles CA, and is in the process of pursuing an Americana artist deal with fellow friend / cowriter Stan Webb.

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The Swallow at the Hollow is a Barbeque Restaurant/Country Music Venue where the philosophy is that “If you can make it homemade, you do make it homemade”. And that holds true with everything, from any one of our delicious Hickory smoked meats, homemade sausage, homemade macaroni and cheese, homemade bread and butter pickles, homemade sauces on the tables to our yummy homemade chocolate chip banana pudding, buttermilk biscuits and loaf of bread Our music philosophy is that if you are going to spend that much time and effort to make the food so good, you’d better keep the entertainment on that same level. So, on Friday and Saturday nights each week, we present Nashville’s premier singer/songwriter/artists in shows that begin at 10:00 pm. See the Live Music page for upcoming shows! We also feature some of the most talented local artists, with no cover charge, on Wednesday nights-inside, Thursday nights-outside in the picnic area, weather permitting, and the wonderful duo Tom and Julie every Sunday night-inside. So when you just want to hear some good music while you eat, and maybe see the next big up and comer, visit us on one of those nights. We also have an event facility called The Yellow House, which is right next door. This charming Victorian house is perfect for wedding rehearsal dinners, wedding receptions, bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs, corporate dinners or luncheons, birthday parties, Christmas parties, divorce parties, parties to celebrate a 40 year-old son finally moving out of the house…or whatever special occasion warrants having a really large time! A great big canoe full of beer, hot homemade barbeque, the best music you ever laid your ears on and the sweetest and most attentive wait staff ever, (except for that one kid)… How can you NOT have fun?!?