Photo Credit: Wyatt Durrette by Brooke Stevens Photography
Reach Music acquires the publishing and songwriting rights of Wyatt Durrette, including hits from Zac Brown Band and Luke Combs.
Reach Music Publishing has acquired select publishing and songwriting assets from Wyatt Durrette, including the songwriter’s interest in songs co-written with Zac Brown and Luke Combs.
According to Michael Closter, President, Founder, and Owner of Reach Music, the acquisition includes interests in 29 of Durrette’s compositions, as well as global administration rights for its shares of those rights. The copyrights include Durrette’s interest in songs he co-wrote with Zac Brown, including “Chicken Fried,” “Toes,” and “Whatever It Is,” by Zac Brown Band.
Besides Zac Brown, Durrette has written with Luke Combs, including the hit single “Beautiful Crazy,” which has been certified 10x Platinum (Diamond) by the RIAA. This song is also included in the Reach acquisition.
Richard Blackstone of Blackstone Entertainment, Wyatt’s longtime publisher, will remain his publisher and co-administer together with Reach Music for the select songs that are part of the deal.
“This is a thrilling moment to have concluded an acquisition agreement with Wyatt Durrette, an A-level award winning songwriter,” said Closter. “Reach Music has been the publishing administrator for Zac Brown for 12 years, and we’ve always been familiar with Wyatt Durrette and his incredible works with Zac Brown Band, starting with ‘Chicken Fried,’ as well as his more recent works with Luke Combs. This marks Reach’s largest acqusition in the country space, and we couldn’t be more excited than to have done this deal with Wyatt.”
Reach’s agreement with Wyatt Durrette comes shortly after other acquisitions by the company of classic catalogs in other genres, including recent copyright acquisitions for Judas Priest, as well as Public Enemy’s Chuck D.
Wyatt Durrette was represented in the transaction by Adam Ritholz and John Brill of Ritholz Levy Fields LLP. Reach Music was represented in the transaction by Jeff Sacharow of The Sacharow Firm, P.C.
