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Jerry Foster performing at The Commodore Grille

Press release · GAL PR · November 2025

Honoring a songwriting legend: Jerry Foster’s 90th birthday celebration

On November 19, 2025, while the CMA Awards went on across town, nearly 35 artists including Deborah Allen, Donna Frost and Don Cromwell packed Nashville’s Commodore Grille to celebrate Jerry’s 90th birthday. He closed the night with his Jerry Lee Lewis hit “Would You Take Another Chance on Me.” The release also announced Blue Collar Holler, an upcoming TV series about his life produced by Myron Nash.

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Articles & profiles

In print

Feb 8, 2020Hall of Fame songwriter Jerry Foster interview on An Alternative ViewPR.com
Aug 29, 2011Country Hall hosts Jerry FosterMusicRow · announcing the Poets and Prophets salute
June 1982Jerry Foster: “I’m a rock’n’roller”Country Music People (UK), by Alan Cackett
Inductee, 1994Jerry Foster, Hall of Fame profileNashville Songwriters Foundation

TV, radio & video

Interviews

PBSThe Art of SongwritingJerry on writing the hits
2011Poets and Prophets: A Salute to Jerry FosterCountry Music Hall of Fame and Museum, with Michael Gray
2015Oral history interviewNAMM Oral History Program
2020An Alternative ViewTwo-part interview with Deb Bishop
YouTubeHall of Fame Nashville songwriter with hundreds of hitswith Jeff Dayton
YouTubeHall of Fame Songwriter Jerry Foster Tells Allwith Scot England

Film & TV

On screen

ComingBlue Collar HollerTV series about Jerry’s life, produced by Myron Nash
2009Hannah Montana: The MovieActor
2008ManagementActor
VideoCarrie Underwood, “Temporary Home” and “Two Black Cadillacs”Music videos

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Book

The memoir

An Ol’ Rebel Still Rockin’ (2015) is Jerry’s own telling of his life, from a Missouri farm and the Marines to Music Row, the hits with Bill Rice, and the stages he still plays.

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Krys Midgett · GAL PRkrysm@gal-pr.com 615-476-1616 Electronic press kit Download the press kit (PDF)

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