Marcus K. Dowling

Marcus K. Dowling is an iconoclastic polymath.

He's the Nashville Country Music Reporter for The Tennessean (part of the USA Today Network) and is a member of the 2025 class of Leadership Music. He was also the 2023 Country Music Association Media Achievement Award winner, the 2021 recipient of the Rolling Stone Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism, plus the recipient of the 2022 Best of Gannett and National Headliner Awards.

Over the past 15 years, he has won global honors as a dance music, food, and hip-hop writer from the Drum Awards, Southern Foodways Alliance, and more.

Also, his contributions across the musical spectrum have seen him write for Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, Vice, The FADER, VIBE, Complex, Mixmag, Bandcamp, CMT.com, No Depression, and more. Moreover, he's been quoted by or made appearances for the Associated Press, CBS, ESPN, Hulu, New York Times, NPR, PBS, Tribeca Film Festival, the Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

His credits include work with Viacom, A & E Networks, and Washington, DC's Government as a screenwriter.

In the past decade, his conceptual curation, marketing, promotional, interviewing, and hosting expertise have allowed creative entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry to gross $25 million in revenue.