236 songs.

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Ty Weathers · Producer · Songwriter · Engineer

I've been making records since 1999. My BMI catalogue is 236 songs, published by my own company, and in December 2025 one of them went gold. I'm at Sand City in North Myrtle Beach on appointments, and you don't have to be here for it. Send me the raw vocals and I can do most of this from wherever you are.

Work with me Call 877 899 3771

The gold record

“Outback”

Moonshine Bandits

From the album Blacked Out

Certification: Certified gold
Certified: 12 December 2025
Label: Average Joes Entertainment

The RIAA certifies the recording, so the certificate names the artist and the label, not the writer. That's just how it works. The register with my name on it is BMI, where “Outback” sits under ISWC T9172357630. Both of those are public.

RIAA database

BMI repertoire

Hear it

The charts

Eighteen chart runs. Nine of them top ten.

See the chart tables

Records I'm a registered writer on have charted on the Billboard 200, Top Country Albums, Top Rap Albums, Independent Albums and Heatseekers. I've got the printed Billboard page for five of these peaks. The rest are off Billboard's own chart history for the artist. Every record here links to somewhere you can play it.

The other nine runs

18 runs with a published peak · 9 top ten · 1 number one

Nine more across the same five charts.

Release	Year	Chart	Peak
Blacked Out	2015	Top Country Albums	13
Blacked Out	2015	Independent Albums	13
Baptized in Bourbon	2017	Top Country Albums	19
Calicountry	2014	Top Country Albums	22
Gold Rush	2018	Independent Albums	24
Calicountry	2014	Independent Albums	27
Calicountry	2014	Billboard 200	126
Blacked Out	2015	Billboard 200	158
Rebels on the Run	2014	Top Country Albums	charted

Blacked Out
Top Country Albums · 2015
13
Blacked Out
Independent Albums · 2015
13
Baptized in Bourbon
Top Country Albums · 2017
19
Calicountry
Top Country Albums · 2014
22
Gold Rush
Independent Albums · 2018
24
Calicountry
Independent Albums · 2014
27
Calicountry
Billboard 200 · 2014
126
Blacked Out
Billboard 200 · 2015
158
Rebels on the Run
Top Country Albums · 2014
charted

The catalogue

236 works. 235 with my name on them.

This isn't a press number. It's my catalogue at BMI, and BMI are the people who collect on every one of these. 236 works registered between 2013 and 2025, published by my own company on all of them, 235 with my name on as a writer. The odd one out is a Burn County record I published but didn't write. Pick any title and go look it up.

236
Works in the catalogue
235 of them as a writer
89
Co-writer names
Other writers beside mine
41
Registered in 2025
My biggest year so far
13
Straight years
2013 to 2025, no gap in it

The catalogue, title by title, the way BMI lists them.

Works registered per year

13

9

14

19

15

7

16

14

17

24

18

31

19

26

20

10

21

15

22

17

23

10

24

41

25

2025 is the biggest year in there. That's the year Sand City opened.

Broadcast Music, Inc.
Public repertoire search

BMI still has me under three separate writer numbers. I'm merging them.

Weathers Ty Albert00428648234197
Weathers Ty0042864843037
Weathers Ty A004286483321

Publisher on all 236: Burn County Music

Search the BMI register

What happens when people look

That concept of beat was so fire.

I don't spend much time telling people what I've done. This is usually how it goes instead.

I go and jump on their tour buses when they come through here, and they're like, bro, when you did that song, I sat in my tour bus and listened to that. He goes, I straight up jacked you. That concept of beat was so fire. I was like, well, that's flattery, man.
On the artists I have produced

How I got here

I've been doing this since 1999.

1999
Pullman, Washington
I started out rapping and making beats as Tyrant while I was at Washington State. Put out an album called Everything I Want in December 2000, sixteen tracks, on a label I started with my mentor R.P.M. Sold over 1,200 copies out of my own hands, wrote more than 200 beats, ran a hip hop show on KZUU, DJ'd at The Attic. In November 2001 I opened for Sir Mix-A-Lot.
2001
A newspaper wrote about me
The Lewiston Morning Tribune ran a feature on me on 22 June 2001, promoted on the front page, written by a staff writer named Wyatt Buchanan. The programme coordinator who booked me told him I “came highly recommended by students whom I respect a lot”. I was 22. Nobody paid for that piece, and that's why it still means something to me.
2003
The Moonshine Bandits
I met Dusty and Brett and we never really stopped. BMI has me down as a co-writer with the two of them on more than eighty registered works. Calicountry charted in 2014. Blacked Out in 2015. Baptized in Bourbon went number one on Heatseekers in 2017. Gold Rush in 2018. The Whiskey Never Dries in 2019.
2013
Burn County Music
I built a team instead of a solo act. Derek Stephens writes and sings as Durwood Black, Brad Cox produces and engineers, Amit Erez plays guitar. All three of them are co-writers with me in the BMI catalogue. We put our own records out too, Welcome to Burn County in 2016 and Embers & Ashes in 2023.
2025
Sand City
I was at the Department of Defense doing cybersecurity in Vancouver, Washington. Really good money, and it didn't make me happy, sat at a desk twelve hours a day staring at screens. Brad Cox told me if I wanted to run a studio I could come over here and run one, so I did. There was a non-profit with a multimillion dollar room and I ran that for a while, then we opened Sand City at 1903 Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach. I run it with a partner, which is why it doesn't carry the Burn County name. SSL Origin, Neumann U87, the whole rack. In 2025 I registered more songs than in any year of my career.
2026
Gold, and what's next
In December 2025 “Outback” was certified gold. In 2026 I worked in sessions with Desiigner and with the English producer Giles Martin. There's a movie that shot down here and they're doing all of its audio in my room, so I blacked those days out. It's the same job I was doing in Pullman. The gear's just better.

“Beginning in late 2020, LaCoste abandoned his once digital sound in favor of a more analog approach, thanks to producer Ty Weathers and Burn County Records.”

Volume OneChippewa Falls, Wisconsin · 15 May 2022Read it→

“Came highly recommended by students whom I respect a lot.”

Lewiston Morning TribuneFeature profile by Wyatt Buchanan · 22 June 2001Print only. I have the clipping.

Selected credits

Records you can go and play.

All credits

Everything here links to somewhere you can play it. The full writer catalogue is the 236 above and it's all searchable at BMI.

2025
“Blame It on Waylon”
Moonshine Bandits
Writing
Written with Ira Dean, Chris Wallin and Brad Cox.
2023
“Baptized in Bourbon” feat. Uncle Kracker
Moonshine Bandits
Writing
2023
Embers & Ashes
Burn County
Writing, production
Listen on Deezer
2023
Southern Son, deluxe remixes
Demun Jones
Production
2023
“Ride Like the Devil”
Hale the Wolfe
Writing
Registered with Brad Cox, published by Burn County Music.
Listen on Deezer
2022
Lost & Found
Jake LaCoste
Production
The record Volume One wrote about.
Listen on Deezer
2022
Don't Laugh
Outlaw
Production
2021
“Weight”
Krizz Kaliko
Writing
His first single on his own label after Strange Music.

Who I write with, and how many we share

Dusty Dahlgren81
Brett Brooks80
Durwood Black55
Demun Jones19
Jared Boyce42
Bryan Patterson24
Justin Adams24
Bradley Sullivan18
Mark Davis16
Brad Cox15
Doc Erez14
Jake LaCoste13
Cameron Russell11
Ira Dean4
Ryan Upchurch4
Adam Calhoun4
Bubba Sparxxx3
Cowboy Troy3
Chris Wallin2
Jared Domangue2
Lenny Cooper1

The number is how many registered works we share at BMI. There are 89 co-writers in the catalogue in all. These are the ones you're most likely to know.

What I do

Fix the music first.

It doesn't matter if you have the best voice in the world. If nobody hears it, it doesn't matter. That's why I do both halves of this. I make the record, and then I go and get it heard, and I can do the second part confidently because I did the first one.

01
Production
Voice memo to a finished master. I write, I arrange, I play, I track. Your voice is like your signature. Nobody else walks like you, so I'm not going to tune the thing that makes you sound like you.
02
Songwriting
There's 236 registered works behind this. Sessions, co-writes, toplines, or a song built from nothing while you sit there.
03
Recording
We replay the parts with live session players or MIDI, cut the vocal properly, and keep going until it sounds like a record instead of a demo.
04
Mixing and mastering
In house, on my own gear. Me or Brad Cox, depending on what the record wants.
05
Audiobooks and voice
Full audiobook and voice-over recording, editing and delivery to spec. It's a quiet room and I don't rush you.
06
Video and marketing
Videos, commercials, ads and the campaigns behind them, through Burn County Media. I shot my own studio videos. This part only works after the rest of it does.
07
Film and TV audio
I've gotten sync placements in movies and I'm trying to get more into that world. There's a feature that shot down here doing all of its audio in my room, so I blacked those days out.
08
AI demos made into records
People bring me songs a machine wrote. We hire session players, replay every instrument, cut the vocal properly, and change it enough that the AI layout's gone. Then you've got an actual song. Almost nobody's doing this properly yet.
09
Podcasts and AI voice
Podcasts, and AI voice training. If it involves a microphone I've probably already done it.
10
Remote work
You don't have to be in Myrtle Beach. Send me the stems and the raw vocals and I can do most of this from wherever you are.

Anything recording. I've made about fifty music videos, run the room, shot the footage, mixed the record and run the ads behind it. Same guy for all of it.

Call 877 899 3771

What I won't do

There needs to be value for the purpose.

I turn work down. Not often, but I do, and it's usually one of these.

I won't market a record that isn't ready
Somebody well known sent me a project once and it was some of the worst music I've ever heard. I said I can't. If you want me to market it, you're coming to the studio and we're producing it, recording your voice, mixing it and mastering it. Then I can market you confidently.
I won't buy you numbers
You can throw money at bot farms, go and get spins, and tell everybody you're hot. That's just not what I do.
I won't sell you a thing you don't need
Somebody tells me they want to get bigger and I go, bigger for what? More likes? More views? Shows in bigger rooms? Those are three different jobs and they get set up three different ways. Tell me the goal first.
I won't talk you into it
I don't convince people to work with me. I'd rather find out early that we're not a good fit for each other than take the booking and have us both regret it.

The room

Sand City Studio

If we're a good fit, this is the room you're booking. We opened it in 2025 at 1903 Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach and it's the home of Burn County Music. I run it with a partner, and that's why it isn't called Burn County. SSL Origin console with eight channels of PureDrive, a Neve 1073 and a Portico, API and BAE preamps, a 1176, a Distressor, a Manley Vari-Mu, an SSL G-Bus, and a U87 out front. It runs on appointments, so book before you drive down.

1903 Highway 17 South

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

What is in it

The full published catalogue, thirty-six units. It's not about what you have but what you can do with what you have.

Console and preamps

SSL Origin console8 ch PureDrive
Neve 1073
API 512
BAE 1073
Phoenix Audio DRS-1×2
Chandler Germanium
Neve Portico
Universal Audio LA-610
Daking Mic Pre×2
Warm Audio WA273

Dynamics

Universal Audio 1176
Empirical Labs Distressor
dbx 165A
dbx 160
Manley Vari-Mu
SSL G-Bus
Purple Audio MC77
Audioscape Opto Compressor
Black Lion Audio Seventeen
Black Lion Audio Bluey

Microphones

Neumann U87
Audio-Technica AT4050
Audio-Technica AT4033×2
Beyerdynamic MC 930×2
Shure SM7
Shure SM57×5
Shure Beta 52
Sennheiser MD 421
Sennheiser e609×2
Audio-Technica AT3035
Roswell K87
Roswell K47matched pair
Audix D6
Audix D4
Audix i5
Warm Audio WA-14×2

Who I work with

Burn County

I didn't build this on my own and I'm not going to pretend I did. These three are co-writers with me in the BMI register, not names on a page.

Work with me

Tell me what you're making.

Send me the song, when you need it by, and what you've got to spend. Then we talk and work out whether you're a good fit for me and I'm a good fit for you. If we're not, I'll say so, and I'll probably tell you who to call instead.

Email me Call 877 899 3771

You get me
I answer my own phone. All three of my businesses funnel into one app so nothing gets missed, and if I'm in a session I'll call you back.
By appointment
I go to the studio on appointments only. When you're booked the room is yours and I'm not juggling you against three other things.
A real quote
Tell me what you're actually doing and I'll give you an accurate number. I'm not going to price a job I haven't scoped.

Sand City Studio · 1903 Hwy 17 S, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582

236 songs.

“Outback”

Eighteen chart runs. Nine of them top ten.

Baptized in Bourbon

Calicountry

Blacked Out

Gold Rush

Baptized in Bourbon

Calicountry

Blacked Out

The Oven

The Whiskey Never Dries

The other nine runs

236 works. 235 with my name on them.

Works registered per year

That concept of beat was so fire.

I've been doing this since 1999.

Pullman, Washington

A newspaper wrote about me

The Moonshine Bandits

Burn County Music

Sand City

Gold, and what's next

Records you can go and play.

“Blame It on Waylon”

“Baptized in Bourbon” feat. Uncle Kracker

Embers & Ashes

Southern Son, deluxe remixes

“Ride Like the Devil”

Lost & Found

Don't Laugh

“Weight”

Fix the music first.

Production

Songwriting

Recording

Mixing and mastering

Audiobooks and voice

Video and marketing

Film and TV audio

AI demos made into records

Podcasts and AI voice

Remote work

There needs to be value for the purpose.

I won't market a record that isn't ready

I won't buy you numbers

I won't sell you a thing you don't need

I won't talk you into it

Sand City Studio

What is in it

Console and preamps

Dynamics

Microphones

Burn County

Durwood Black

Brad Cox

Doc Erez

Tell me what you're making.

You get me

By appointment

A real quote