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RCA
Records discovered and hired Erin Morris for its publicity department
when she was a part-time writer for Billboard magazine and a
full-time student at Belmont University’s School of Music Business
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At RCA, where she would remain for 11 years, she planned and directed publicity campaigns for such artists as Alabama, Vince Gill, the Judds, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Clint Black, Martina McBride, K. T. Oslin, Ronnie Milsap, the Oak Ridge Boys, Eddie Rabbitt, Earl Thomas Conley, Eddy Arnold, Keith Whitley, Foster & Lloyd, the O’Kanes, Waylon Jennings, Restless Heart and many others. Her duties for the label routinely took her to New York and Los Angeles, where she worked closely with talent bookers for David Letterman, Jay Leno, numerous radio networks, television specials and the Academy of Country Music, Grammy and People’s Choice awards shows. Morris resigned from RCA in 1994 to join her husband, Jim Della Croce, at the thriving independent publicity firm he had founded, The Press Office. A great many of the acts she had worked with at RCA would later become Press Office clients, among them Vince Gill, Martina McBride, Waylon Jennings and Steve Wariner. Her other Press Office accounts include or have included Ralph Stanley, The Beach Boys, John Anderson, Pam Tillis, CMT.com, Peter Huttlinger, Merle Haggard, Warner Bros. Records, Arista Records, Radney Foster and Chris Cagle. More recently, Morris has extended her years of music business expertise to talent management. She currently oversees the career of award-winning guitarist Peter Huttlinger, the flagship artist on rock legend Steve Vai’s label, Favored Nations Acoustic. Morris’s
articles have been published in Billboard, Pro Sound News, Modern
Recording and elsewhere. She is a member of the Belmont University
Advisory Board and the mother of two unreasonably delightful kids.
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