Agent Jimmy Dasher Joins AMG; Bringing Clients Terry McBride, Doug Stone, Andy Griggs, Others

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Jimmy Dasher has joined Atomic Music Group as a booking agent, bringing his full roster including Terry McBride, Doug Stone, Andy Griggs and Mark Collie among others.

Dasher comes from the recently shuttered Buddy Lee Attractions, the 50-plus-year, Nashville-based talent agency that suddenly announced its closure last week after at one point representing some of the biggest stars in country.

Dasher can be reached at [email protected]. He will work from AMG’s Nashville office. 

AMG, headed by CEO Scott Weiss, has a varied roster and multiple offices (Oak Park, Calif; Nashville, Austin, New York and Toronto) with clients including Voivod, Reverend Horton Heat, Jason Eady, Mac Sabbath, The Dead South and many others.

The news of Dasher’s new agency home comes after former BLA agent Steve Peck announced the reopening of his own Diversified National Artists, where he will be joined by colleague Jon Sayles.

The closure of Buddy Lee Attractions may exemplify the challenge of boutique talent agencies competing with the full-service agencies that have vast resources in other realms of media such as TV and film.  

“The industry is debating whether the boutique agencies will survive or disappear, the answer for me is it is always up to how much the artist is willing to work,” former Buddy Lee Attractions client and country superstar Garth Brooks told Pollstar. 

“The dream, whether a big agency or small, is to have an agent that knows what work is. To push you, as an artist, to build that fan base one person at a time. Find that agent who overworks his or her artists and then shock that agent by working ten times harder than he or she thought possible. Because in the end, success is up to the work ethic of the artist.”

Skyline Artists Agency’s James Leslie told Pollstar, “I firmly believe there is the ‘right play’ for an act and an agency has no influence as to what room makes most sense for an artist to be placed in. If an act comes to Skyline and we route them a show in Nashville, more often than not, they’re going to be booked in the exact same room a major agency would book them into.”