The first time I met Jayna Murray was over the phone in 2006.  I was in New York City for work and walking around the streets in the evening when my phone rang.  It was our mutual friend who was in Texas with Jayna.  I don’t recall much of the conversation other than there was [...]

The Future of Music Coalition’s Artists Revenue Stream project is the first ever attempt by anyone to survey as many US-based musicians as possible to find out how they derive their musical income and how that has changed over the last 10 years.  The goal is that it will provide the music industry, policy makers, [...]

  Whether or not you’re a musician, over the past ten years or so there have been incredible shifts in the music industry.  It wasn’t very long ago that you probably didn’t buy your music over the Internet, or have the ability to listen to any song you wanted to hear with a couple touches [...]

Many of us who were witnesses to the September 11th attacks will remember where we were when we heard and began seeing the disturbing images of an attacked NYC, Washington, DC, and downed plane in Stonycreek, PA.  I always figured I would reflect back on that day when the ten year anniversary came up, and [...]

Can I have your home phone and zip code please?  You hear that a lot when you check out at stores.  There’s a reason for this, it’s called targeting. Targeting is a method businesses used to direct products, offers, and specific information about the business to you.  Usually it’s based on what interests you, where [...]

This may become a regular post on here because I’m a musician and am around many any given week.  I call this “Things Musicians Say (and Don’t Do)” not to call out musicians, but to make them aware of certain behaviors they (and I included) say aloud but don’t actually mean or do.   “Let’s [...]

A little over a year ago I read a chapter in Ariel Hyatt’s book Music Success in Nine Weeks on newsletters.  After reading it I felt like I had made many many mistakes with how I was writing my music newsletter.  I began a journey in salvaging whomever I had left that was reading them [...]

  Over the past few years my producer, Dave Mallen, has come back from Los Angeles around this time brimming with excitement and lots of new knowledge on how to have a career in music.  For him, it’s been a longer number of years than I that he’s considered himself a true professional.  But I [...]

My last two days in Nashville had more open time to hang out and meet a few more folks.  I took my time Tuesday getting out needing time to sleep in and relax a bit.  Considering all I had been up to, I wasn’t overwhelmed with the pace of Nashville or all the people I [...]

I’m doing quite a bit of catch up here from my trip.  I have to say the best part of this trip was going into a Nashville studio to do some recording on Monday.  In Nashville there’s a section of town called Music Row.  I at first thought it was a bunch of music venues [...]