Troy Tomlinson recently celebrated 35 years of working in Nashville’s music publishing hotspot. During that time, he’s signed Kenny Chesney, worked with the young Taylor Swift and picked up a lot of country wisdom along the way. Here, he shares some of it…

Growing up around country music helps because…

“It meant that I knew that stars were regular people too. I had a half brother who was a bass player for an Opry star so, when I was 10-15 ...