Melissa Coker (sweetlysarcastic1@gmail.com) is a journalist, publicist, and copy editor who loves country music despite being born in the Nashville area - unlike some from the vicinity who seem bent on disparaging it. She has contributed to American Songwriter, CMA Close Up, Music Row and Performing Songwriter, among other magazines. She wrote for her university newspaper for three years and contributed to The Tennessean and their weekly entertainment paper "All the Rage” regularly. She can't add money worth a dime but if you misspell a songwriter or artist's name, then God have mercy on your soul.