Music City Madness Provides Artists Rare Chance

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}  “Music City Madness” from CMT.com announces Kurt Thomas, a 33-year-old Georgia native, as winner of their talent search contest.  Over 22 million votes helped decide the winner of the contest with Thomas beating out 16-year-old Maddie Georgi from Allison Park, Penn.  As winner, Thomas will come to Nashville to record an episode of “Unplugged at Studio 330,” an audition with Warner Bros. Records and a session with Randy Travis.   Thomas has spent twelve years working on his music career by performing five nights a week around Atlanta. He’s also a stay-at-home father of two boys and wrote his winning song “Follow Your Lead” about his mother, wife and first-born son.   “I’m completely excited about it,” said Thomas in a statement. “It’s a chance to give guys like me – unsigned artists – a real opportunity that most musicians never get.”