numerous BMI awards and been named Nashville’s Best
Local Songwriter 5 times by The Nashville Scene.
As a recording artist and multi-instrumentalist
Marcus released a critically acclaimed country record
for Columbia Records in 1995 All In Good Time; also, in
1997 Marcus and Scottish Big Country front-man, Stuart
Adamson, released their duo album Supernatural, as The
Raphaels, with Track Records out of London. He has also
released two independent albums for Velvet Armadillo
Records and another independent album called Rosanna
(2010). Turning to theatre, Hummon has written 5 musicals
and 2 operas. Two of his musicals, Warrior and The Piper,
were featured Off-Broadway as part of the New York New
Musical Festival (NYMF) in 2005, and 2006. Warrior and
American Duet received invitations to be work-shopped
at the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Summer Conference
in 2005 and 2006 respectively. For Warrior, a musical
about the life of Jim Thorpe, Marcus received an Award for
Creative Excellence from the Native American Association
of Tennessee. He also received a nomination for an NAACP
Award for his play Atlanta, which enjoyed an extended
three-month run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
His opera, Surrender Road, was supported by Opera
America and staged by The Nashville Opera Company.
In literature, Hummon’s children’s book, Anytime,
Anywhere was published by Athenium Press, a division of
Simon and Schuster in 2009. An earlier book of poetry,
Gospel Haiku was published by Providence Press.
As a Producer, Hummon has produced the freshman
offering of country trio One Flew South on Decca Records;
and he is also producing a record on Julie Roberts for MCA
Nashville.
Marcus lives in Nashville with his wife Becca, and their
three sons, Levi, Caney and Moses.