Sam and Annie Tate are one of the few successful husband and wife songwriting teams in Nashville.  They write for Carnival Music, one of Nashville's "hottest" small publishers.  They have had songs and hits with artists such as Randy Travis, Collin Raye, Gary Allen, Joe Nichols, Reba McIntyre, Mark Wills, Montgomery Gentry, Ty Herndon, Kevin Sharp, Chely Wright, Sammy Kershaw, Chad Brock, Tommy Shane Steiner, Dan Baird, Chris Knight, and others.  They gave Chely her first hit single with the song "Shut Up and Drive" and were co-writers on Sammy Kershaw's recent top 40 hit, "I Want My Money Back".  Their latest single, "Somebody" is Reba McIntyre's new smash hit from her latest album "Learning to Breathe."

Sam and Annie have also had songs in commercials, TV shows ("ER") and in the movies, "Space Truckers" starring Dennis Hopper, "Black Dog" with Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis, and "The Big One" with Michael Moore."

Both Sam and Annie had successful performing careers before they met. Sam has been a staff songwriter in Nashville and Los Angeles since the age of 19, writing country music, commercial jingles, and songs for TV and movies, including Cannonball Run, Simon and Simon and the Fall Guy.  As an artist he was an opening act for the likes of John Prine, Buffy Saint-Marie, and Steve Martin.  Annie is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Stanford University graduate with a degree in psychology who has enough road band experience under her belt to qualify as a veteran.  She traveled everywhere from Las Vegas to Alaska, but left the road to spend more time writing. It was a good decision.  Annie's first demos (produced by Sam) landed her a record deal, a national Exxon commercial, a movie theme song, and a wedding ring.  Whether in English or Spanish, Sam and Annie write about their experiences --- about loving and losing, about dreaming of something better and about border towns and all the colorful people who live there.  Like Annie always says, "if you want to know us, listen to our songs."  They have been partners in music and life now for 16 years.