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Wood Newton

Wood was born and raised in Hampton, Arkansas population 1600. He was graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in business administration in 1970. He is the sole owner of Rope A Note Music publishing, which contains more than five hundred songs. He also owns Rope A Note studio on Music Row, and has his own production company.

Wood and his wife Gloria moved to Nashville in 1976 to get in the music business. Since then, as a songwriter Wood has written some of country music’s biggest hits, among them are; "BOBBIE SUE" for THE OAK RIDGE BOYS, "TWENTY YEARS AGO" for KENNY ROGERS, “WHAT I DIDN’T DO” for STEVE WARINER, and “RIDING WITH PRIVATE MALONE” which he produced for DAVID BALL. All four of these songs have received BMI awards for being played over a million times.

Wood produced, and sang harmony with David Ball on “OLD FOLKS AT HOME”, a track on “Beautiful Dreamer, The Songs Of Stephen Foster”. It won a Grammy for Traditional Folk Album of the year 2005.

Billy Dean has recorded "Wave On Old Glory Wave On" a new song that Wood co-wrote with Jim Weatherly. On Wood's birthday September 16th 2008 they had the great honor of having the 82 piece Nashville Symphony, and the Fisk Jubilee Singer play and sing on this new song. It was released January 13th on a 38 song multi-artist album called "This Is My America" http://www.ThisIsMyAmerica.com.

In 2011, a movie called "The Last Ride", based on the last three days of Hank Williams' life was released. It stars Henry Thomas as Hank, Henry is best know for playing the kid in the movie "ET". Wood co-wrote two songs for it with Hank's daughter Jett Williams who was born two weeks after her father's death.

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