Jerry Kimbrough can tell tales after 25+ years as a musician in Nashville, but it’s his much-sought-after guitar skills he is sharing with MTSU students in Songwriting Instrumentation: Guitar.

Kimbrough has been a studio and session musician for artists ranging from Ray Stevens to Point of Grace to Ronnie Milsap, playing on thousands of albums and lending his creative expertise to pop, rock, country, alternative, Americana, gospel, jazz, and various dance music projects.  

He has recorded for independent artists, publishers, and record labels big and small. He has contributed to radio and TV advertisements as a musician and composer on the local and national level, for products that range from cars to soap to tacos to insurance.  

Kimbrough, a graduate of the University of Miami School of Music, is a longtime contributor to the Warner Chappell Production Music library, a special division of the Warner Music Group that creates custom music for TV shows, movies, and commercials. He wrote the music for Spider-Man’s ringtone in Homecoming, played guitar in a scene for the TV series Nashville, and was bandleader for Ray Stevens’ Nashville TV show.  

And if anyone should ask, he’ll tell about the time he played a bar where bikers were expected to park their bikes inside. Or the time he lied his way into his first recording session, only to play indescribably poorly. Or when he realized he was doing what he loved and wasn’t going to quit—no matter what. 

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