MetadataThird Chair

Truckstops, Honky-tonks and Cheap Motels — who wrote it?

no ISWC✓ No disputed shares
Also registered as: TRUCKSTOPS HONKYTONKS AND CHEAP MOTELS

Truckstops, Honky-tonks and Cheap Motels was written by George Byron III Hill, Charles Otis Blackmon. US mechanical royalties are collected by Sony/atv Cross Keys Publishing (50%), Brother Bart Music (12.5%).

Writers
2
credited writers
Publishers & admins
3
2 collecting groups
Linked recordings
12
matched to this work
Share registered
62.5%
partial
Unclaimed
37.5%
may be uncollected
⚠ 37.5% of this song is unclaimed at The MLC
Mechanical royalties on 12 recordings may be going uncollected. We find who’s missing and help recover it.

Who collects the mechanical royalties

US mechanical shares as registered at The MLC · each writer’s chain: writer → publisher → administrator.

Sony/atv Cross Keys Publishing 50%Sony/atv Cross Keys Publishing · 50%
Brother Bart Music 12.5%Brother Bart Music · 12.5%
Unregistered · 37.5%
Sony/atv Cross Keys Publishing 50% Brother Bart Music 12.5% Unregistered 37.5%
This song is leaving royalties on the table
Unclaimed shares or a missing ISWC mean mechanical royalties go uncollected. We help get it corrected at The MLC.