Tim McFadden Consulting

Tim is the owner of Tim McFadden Management and Consulting,  a firm in Nashville, TN  he started in 2004.  Besides personal management he also consults labels, artists, publishing and other entertainment companies on promotion, marketing, publishing and A and R.
His  consulting and management clients are and have included: Alabama, Katlyn Lowe, We Banjo 3, Tony Jackson, Legend Group Records, Old Dominion, Loud and Proud Records, Sugar Hill Records, Lee Ann Womack, Sam Bush, Blue Highway, Robinella, Bradley Walker, Stonehoney,  The Hillbenders, New Country Rehab, Jesse Terry, Outshyne, Millstar Entertainment Group, Music Road Records, Chuck Mead and many others.
Tim was formerly Senior VP for Tenacity Records representing the artists Blackhawk, Billy Ray Cyrus, LoCash Cowboys, Bill Gentry, Lonestar, and Tracy Lawrence.
During 2011 and 2012, Tim took a year off from his consulting and management clients and helped some good friends start R&J Records. He started with the new label in May of 2011 and was responsible for all promotion of the artists on the roster. Those artists included: Aaron Lewis of Staind, The LoCash Cowboys, Andy Gibson, Maggie Rose and Alexa Carter.
For five years he was VP of rpm management working on the careers of Tim McGraw, Jessica Andrews, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Jeffrey Steele and Billy Gilman. He also oversaw the publishing company of rpm while there as well.
For eight years before that, he owned Tim McFadden Promotions, (an independent radio promotion firm) and was on retainer with many labels and publishing companies, working on singles and albums by artists such as Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, the Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, Vince Gill and dozens more. In 1991, he started Giant Records Nashville with James Stroud  and also assisted with the start of BNA Records.
He was at RCA Records for eight years from 1978 to 1986 working on the careers of Dolly, Waylon, Milsap, Alabama, The Judds, Vince Gill and more. While at RCA, he was a regional promotion manager, a product manager and head of sales for the Nashville division.  He worked at WGAR Radio in the mid 70’s.

His education includes a degree in music with a major in voice from University of Mount Union and he also worked on his masters in composition and theory  at Kent State University.
Tim has also been active owning and running publishing companies and is a guitar player and producer. He is currently also working on composing some pieces for high school and college bands and orchestral ensembles.
Tim spent 8 years on the board of Folk Alliance International, chairing the site selection and programming committees and spent six years on the board of Leadership Music .  He is the former vice president of the board of the Americana Music Association (and served on the board for four years) , and has been on the board of the W O Smith Music School since 2002 (and is a volunteer guitar teacher there as well).  He actively supports St Jude Children’s Research Hospital,  the  Muscular Dystrophy Association, the WO Smith Music School, and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.