Tim Lauer is Nashville based composer, producer, songwriter and musician. He’s currently song producer on David E. Kelley’s Big Sky on ABC and recently completed the first season of Country Comfort for Netflix as composer and music producer. He followed T Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller as executive music producer for the tv show Nashville seasons five and six. He’s produced over two hundred cast recordings for shows including Nashville, Tell Me A Story, Greenleaf , Carnival Row, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist , The Stranger and Big Sky. He was also Executive Music Producer and composer on the movie Patsy and Loretta. He has arranged strings for Shania Twain, Skillet, Francesca Battistelli, Kaleo, Blake Shelton, Michael W. Smith and many others in addition to scoring short films and podcasts and orchestrating for respected German director Wem Winders. He has produced a wide variety of artists including Mikky Ekko, Kate Voegele, Rhiannon Giddens, John Oates and Buck Owens.

As a musician he’s played on hundreds of major label records for a wide range of artists including Taylor Swift, The Civil Wars, Cheap Trick, Keith Urban, Shawn Mendes, Keb Mo, Kid Rock, R. Kelly, Lady A, Foy Vance, Luke Bryan, Bebe Winans, Martina McBride, Lionel Richie, Mathew West, Francesca Battistelli, Rick Astley, Amy Grant, Newsboys, Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Rodney Crowell, Sidewalk Prophets, Sheryl Crow, Dolly Parton and Insane Clown Posse. You can also hear him on Guitar Hero and wii games. He’s also a member and producer of the dream pop band BIEN. Tim is also an Emmy-nominated writer whose songs have been featured in many advertisements including BMW, Target, L'Oreal, Coke, Sephora and Nike as well as tv shows Carnival Row, One Tree Hill, Drop Dead Diva, Hung, The White Queen, Homeland, Teen Wolf, Pretty Little Liars and Cougar Town and wrote and produced the main title song “The Root” for Greenleaf -performed by Mavis Staples.