To compete in any area of industry, you have to continue to learn and grow on a consistent basis. This has always been a part of Mitch Merrett’s success story and evolution as a guitar player. His journey has garnered him over 20 Canadian Music industry awards, including multiple Canadian Country Music Association awards:

• Producer of the Year & Songwriter of the Year 2007 – Record Company of the Year 2015/2016 – Management Company of the Year 2021

• Multiple British Columbia Country Music Association Awards and SOCAN ‘Most Played’ Radio award 

• 3 Gold Singles for Chad Brownlee’s ‘Hate You For It’, Aaron Pritchett’s ‘Hold My Beer’, and Tyler Joe Miller’s ‘I’d Be Over Me Too’, all songs co-written by Merrett.  

In 2016, Mitch founded the band Black Mountain Whiskey Rebellion. Since the release of the album (June  2019), it has been streamed over 15 million times on DSP’s. The band received the cover of Spotify’s Country Rocks and Live playlists, as well as Amazon’s Fresh Faces playlist. In July 2018, Rolling Stone On-line Magazine named them ‘One of the Country Artists you Need to Know’. In 2019 they were nominated for ‘Roots Artist of the Year’ by the Canadian Country Music Association, as well as ‘Producer of the Year’ for Merrett’s production work on the album.

In 2020, Merrett also received his first #1 Song as a writer with Tyler Joe Miller’s ‘I Would Be Over Me Too’, hitting the top of the charts at Canadian Country Radio on the week of October 31, 2020.