Bob Doyle

BOB DOYLE is Owner and President of Major Bob Music, a publishing and production entity, and Bob Doyle & Associates, an artist management firm. Doyle's Major Bob Music is responsible for such hits as "If Tomorrow Never Comes", "Unanswered Prayers", "The River", and "The Thunder Rolls. Affiliated writers Garth Brooks (1995) and Neil Thrasher (2004) have each won ASCAP Country Songwriter of the Year.

Recent hits published by Major Bob/Rio Bravo include "There Goes My Life" (Kenny Chesney), "I Melt" (Rascal Flatts), "What Do You Say" (Reba McEntire), "The Fool" (Lee Ann Womack), "Commitment" (Lee Ann Rimes), "I Lost It" (Kenny Chesney) and "Third Rock From The Sun" (Joe Diffie). Major Bob music is credited with more than fifty ASCAP Publisher Awards and five BMI Millionaire Awards.

Doyle is the long time manager of Garth Brooks, America's top selling solo artist of all time. He also manages the 2004 CCMA Rising Star Award Winner George Canyon (Universal South), Lane Turner (Warner Bros), Anthony Smith and Jonathan Pierce. Doyle is the former Director of Membership Relations at ASCAP Nashville and later served as Assistant Director of A&R at Warner Bros Records. He is a retired pilot and a Lt. Colonel with the Tennessee Air National Guard, having served in Desert Storm.