Michael Puryear
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Founder
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Final Four Music
Michael Puryear is the president of Final Four Music in Nashville, a music publisher that has worked with Amy Grant, The Oak Ridge Boys and Vince Gill, among many others. Michael’s career has covered many aspects of the music industry including being a songwriter himself. In fact, since his publishing career has been so rich, it’s easy to overlook his songwriting output, but his songs have been award winning as well. He penned the Bruce Carroll song “If We Only Had the Heart,” which won a Dove Award and his other songs have been recorded by the likes of Glen Campbell, Ricky Skaggs and Ginny Owens.