Lonnie
Ratliff Country Music Newsletter
June 1st. ,
2008
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"Spotlight
Artist"
" Inger
Nordström"
"click" PHOTO below for
website
"Click" Yellow Speaker below to play songs
by
Inger
Nordström
About
Inger NordströmInger started playing the flute and the
piano at age 8 but she really fell in love with the accordion. For many
years she would travel around and perform with her accordion. While growing
up Inger always had country music coming from the stereo in her home and it
didn’t take long before she started to sing. She sang in different
bands until she answered a notice for a singing job with the band Freetown
Highway. They won Swedish Country SM and toured in Europe and also would
backup Wanda Jackson at the time. Inger felt she wanted her own band and in
late 1989 and early 1990 Rhinestone Band was born. (INRB=Inger Nordstom
n’ her Rhinestone Band) Their first CD came 1991 called
“Cimarron county” witch they produced them selves. With the
American label Comstock Records promoting the CD they soon had several
songs on the Indie chart in the US. INRB also won Country SM in Sweden the
same year. 1993 came “Sylvie Marie” and in 1995 “Living
with a broken heart” produced by INRB and Patrik Tibell. Their first
tour in the US appeared in 1994 and they were very well recived. Then in
1997 legendary guitarist from Rockpile, Billy Bremner produced “Hey
Conductor". In 1999 Inger went on her own and recorded “All alone
together” in Nashville.
INRB took after this a break but was
back in 2005 with the CD “It’s that thing” and 2006 with
“Back on track” with the title song as a No 1 on the Indiechart
again. This was followed by a Christmas CD called “Rockin’
little X-mas” the same year. All these produced by Hakan Torpenberg
(former bandmember in INRB). In 2007 INRB did a CD together with the Rock
n’ roll act Kingbees called “From Memphis to Nashville”
and this would turn out to be the last CD with Rhinestone Band.
Inger
is playing live later this summer with a new band and really looking
forward to all new challenges in the future …..
"Click" buttons below for
more Inger
Nordströmwebsites
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Tips for Songwriter Demos
By
Lonnie Ratliff
I am sure that all of
your life you have heard people say "Don't put all of your eggs in one
basket" and most of the time this is good advice but then we come to
"songwriting" and in my opinion you need to throw away that advice and "Bet
the farm" as they say, on a few songs you have written that you can afford
to really demo well and that you have the most confidence in. If you think
all of your songs are great and you can't decide which ones are the best
then you need to admit to yourself that you are still learning. A few years
from now you will look back and be able to tell which ones were good and
which ones were just OK. Sometimes you have a great idea and just have not
learned the craft well enough to sell it but most of the time it will turn
out that it just wasn't that original an idea to begin
with.
One of the best tools for learning is to
invest your own money in a song you believe in and then not be able to find
even one artist that will cut it. Once that happens a few times you will
start to get a
handle
on
what will work. Later on if you are lucky you will figure out
why.
The reason I believe in a songwriter taking
their best one or two songs and just doing them up to almost "Master"
quality is because being on the production side I know what kind of demos
are being pitched and what kind of songs the artists are choosing. Remember
just because a singer can sing don't mean they can hear a "Hit" unless you
show them with your demo. It is pretty common knowledge that one of the top
selling artist in Nashville can't hear a song unless it is demoed exactly
the way they record and the demo singer even sounds like them. This is an
exception but not a real big streatch. In the last year I have only cut 2
songs where the artist was a male but the demo was sung by a female demo
singer or vice versa. You also run across artists that cannot hear past the
demo. An example being if the demo has electric guitars and piano they
cannot imagine what it would sound like with twin fiddles and steel guitar
instead. This is not to blame anyone but just to let you know what you are
up against as a songwriter trying to get a
"cut"
I
believe you are better off by cutting one or two great demos a year that
can compete with Warner Chappel, EMI, and the songwriters that are pitching
"Masters" from Independent Artists that cut the song a few years back or
even album cuts from Major Artists who lost their deal. Sometimes you can
get by with a simple guitar or piano vocal but you better have a great demo
singer on that demo who can sell the song. "Click" on link below so you can
go check out these first 3 songs of mine and get an idea of what I
personally pitch to artists and what the demo singers sound
like.
These 3
songs are about average demos for what is being pitched around town so at
least you can tell what else may be on the CD of original songs an artist
is listening to when they are looking for songs to record. Just make sure
your demo quality fits in and your demo singers are selling your song so
your chances of getting a "cut" will go up. I know there are exceptions to
everything I have said but it is better to make sure you are competitive at
every stage of the game, Lyrics, Music, Demo, Singer etc! than just setting
around waiting to beat the odds by being that one exception to the
rules.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=392838
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=============================================================== On Tour in Sweden
Joni Compretta
Produced
by Lonnie Ratliff"click" photo for Joni's MYSPACE website
Westwood Int'l.
Records (Nashville)
Mr.
Music Records (Sweden)
CLICK here to
E Mail Joni Compretta.
Dates
and Venues for tour:
You can check it out at
http://www.
tcband. se/
June-9-08- City:
Grästorp Venue: Konserthuset
June-10-2008- City:Grästorp
Venue: Konserthuset
June-14-2008- City:Vargarda Venue: Tanga Hed
Nostalgia Fest Time: 11AM and 1:30
June-15-2008- City: Floda Venue:
Floda Lada
If you need any information about these shows just
contact
Ulf Nilsson Email: un1@telia.com
CLICK here to E Mail Ulf
Nilsson=============================================================== "Click Banner Below for
Website"
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2 Out of Print Erin
Hay CD's available as legal downloads
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To purchase
i-Tunes downloads "click" on above CD Cover photos
If you prefer to download from
CDBABY use LINKS below
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easily amused
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Girl Riding
Donkey
Midget
Tossing
Lawnmower
Racing
Drag
Queen sings Tammy Wynette
karaoke
Jake
and the Greased Pig
Contest
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Artists & Songs Produced by
Lonnie Ratliff
"click Photos for
websites
Big-B
(Norway) just finished
recording his debut CD with Lonnie Ratliff in
Nashville. Expect a release later on this year as soon
as he has the artwork completed and the songs mastered. In the
meantime you can get an advance listen "Click" Photo to
Visit Big-B on MYSPACE. __________________________________________________________________________
Eric
Richards is an excellent singer/songwriter from Blaine, MN
who is working on a CD project with Lonnie Ratliff. This is not the
typical fiddles & steel guitar music you
may be used to from Lonnie and the crew
in Nashville but "click" the photo and you will be convinced as a producer
that Lonnie is not a one trick pony and Eric's songwriting and singing is a
long way from typical but we believe you will love
it.____________________________________________________________________________
Timmy
G is in the process of recording
a CD with Lonnie. Check out his MYSPACE if you are a big fan of
current sounding country music with great vocals and great songs. Make sure
you listen to 16 Sunset Lane.============================================================
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Lonnie's
"Spotlight
Songs"
Written
by Lonnie Ratliff and Pete Parrish "Sissy
Sing That Song" is based somewhat
loosely on my Grandmother, Mother and Sister who all played piano in
church.
"Sissy
Sing That Song"
An old upright piano never quite in tune
A
hymn book from the Pentecostal church
Three generations gathered in
Grandma's living room
Sister played and we all sang for all we's
worth
Now gone are those days when Sissy played Grandma's piano
That piece of history has come and gone
I've forgotten most songs we
sang together, all but one
The one that I remember was my Grandpa's
favorite song.. He'd say
(Chorus # 1)
Sissy sing that song
about when Jesus takes us home
When life's old weary road comes to an
end
Sing about those streets of gold, where we never will grow old
Sissy want you sing that song again
Days turn into years but
we never think of it
Til a phone rings in the middle of the night
Grandpa's taken sick and they're callin' in the kids
You wipe a
million memories from your eyes
Then you drive all night cause Grandpa
he's a fighter
And that old man's hangin' on to buy you time
When
all his family's gathered round his bedside, then he smiles
Then he
whispers Sissy, won't you sing that song of mine
(Chorus # 2)
And we all sing along as Jesus came to take him home
As his ol weary
road came to an end
We sang about those streets of gold where he never
will grow old
We all sang it one last time for him ...... He'd say
(Repeat First Chorus)
Lonnie Ratliff / Pete Parrish
Copr. Okie Acres Music
(BMI)
.
Work
In Progress - New song I am working on (second
draft)
.
Early Years
In the early years
I was heading down a road that
had no end
In the early years
Feeling stranded there where it all
began
There was a rainbow and a pot of gold
Didn't have a map
just an urge to go
And against all odds fate has brought me here
From the early years
Old too soon and wise too late
Things I didn't know at the starting gate
Would have probably
changed the way the race was run
Might have hedged my bets or took
more chances
Paid more mind to strangers glances
Knowing we won't
understand til it's all said and done
In the early years
I
was heading down a road that had no end
In the early years
Feeling stranded there where it all began
There was a rainbow and a
pot of gold
Didn't have a map just an urge to go
And against all
odds fate has brought me here
From the early years
The setting sun is fading fast
Can't beat those odds and make it
last
There's fewer now who can say I knew you when
This day was
once way down the track
Now the past seems closer looking back
And after living with my choices I'd do it all again
In the
early years
I was heading down a road that had no end
In the
early years
Feeling stranded there where it all began
There was a
rainbow and a pot of gold
Didn't have a map just an urge to go
And against all odds fate has brought me here
From the early
years
copr. Lonnie Ratliff
Okie Acres Music
(BMI)
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What makes some songs
work and where to find ideas for songs.
by
Lonnie
Ratliff
After writing for a little while you will
figure out that no matter how good you get at the craft of writing or how
clever you become at unique rhyme schemes the song you end up with is still
going to be no stronger than the original idea that you started out
with. A new song with a fresh approach is always welcome by the
record buying public and depending on just how original it is a songwriter
stands a pretty good chance of becoming financially set for life if they
can come up with the right idea. It can sometimes be such a small
thing that we as a listener are not even aware of what happened to make us
like it. Here's a few examples.
1. Ode To Billy Joe - The sound was
fresh and different for the times but what sold the song to us was the
"mystery" of just what in the heck they were throwing off the Tallahatchie
bridge. To this day we don't know the answer but we all know the
song.
2. Harper Valley P.T.A. uses the fact of
class envy and the listener is rooting for the mother who tells off all the
high society folks in a small town much to our
delight.
3. "I've Got Friends In Low Places" was
the mega hit that separated Garth from everyone that had came before him in
country music and so far have come after him. Just what made this
song work so well that it even drew college kids into the stores to
buy country music ? A lot of people thought it was the sing along
chorus but I think Garth had us "Hooked" with the opening lines.
"Blame it all on my roots I showed up in boots and ruined your black tie
affair" with that opening line he gave the main character in the song
permission to pretty much act like a jerk simply because he was just a
common man and we all lived vicariously through that character
pretending that was what we would do if we were in that situation.
The truth is none of us would ever go to a wedding and act like that
but it was fun for us to pretend for 3 minutes that we
would.
4. If you can remember some old saying
your grandpa used to say odds are it will eventually end up as a "Hit" and
like the rest of us songwriters you will be kicking yourself saying "I've
heard that all my life why didn't I think to write a song about it"
Examples are "I Ain't As Good As I Once Was But I Am As Good Once As
I Ever Was", If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It
Against Me and dozens of other old sayings and jokes that all end up
as songs you could have wrote.
5. Current things happening or being said
in the world around you. We all saw those wooden crosses alongside
the highway at the scene of a fatal accident years before we heard the song
but all of us are not songwriters on "Three Wooden Crosses" except for Doug
Johnson and Kim Williams because we let such an obvious sign as
that slipped right by us.
6. Books are a great place to get ideas
from. If you are like me and love to read and have read all of your
life you will have so many ideas and variations of ideas that you will
never live long enough to write all them anyway. If you do not like
to read that much but understand the value to your songwriting you can pick
out a few sources that will generate a lot of fertile ground for
ideas. You can buy used books on EBAY for next to nothing and for
country songs I would recommend getting a collection of short stories by
Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Carson
McCuellers as a wealth of background material you can comb
through. Some of these short stories are available for free to read
online. I have thought about writing a song based loosely on a short
story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark called the Ox-Bow Incident and I just
GOOGLED it and found a PDF File online where I could read it free of charge
so I could get reacquainted with the story. The trick you need to
learn when using a story for inspiration is to not take anything from
the story but the basic idea or truth shown in the story and retell it in
your own words with a different setting, characters and time
frame.
For those of you who
may have read Ernest Hemingway's "Snows Of Kilimanjaro" when you were in
highschool here is a song I wrote with Vaughn Lofstead entitled "The
Mountain" http://soundclick.com/share?songid=4893307
which came from that Hemingway story along with a
conversation I had with a man working on a rescue team who said that
people living in an old folks home near this mountain in Maine who were a
bit senile or even Alzheimers patients were always wandering off and
getting lost and that they always headed for a mountain near there. I
just used the basic idea that mountains do have a mystical draw to them and
wrote the lyrics to "The Mountain" and if I had never mentioned it I doubt
anyone would ever suspect that the original inspiration was "The Snows Of
Kilimanjaro"
7. Movies are another source for ideas
but the competition from other songwriters also using them will be
greater than for books. I can't believe how many songs I have heard
that more than likely came from the movie "Titanic" and though I have no
way of knowing for sure I would almost be willing to bet the farm that
Garth Brook's song "That Summer" was inspired by "The Summer Of
42". I also remember a lot of songs were writtten that seemed to be
somewhat based on "The Bridges Of Madison
County"
Talk
about a great place for inspiration the mini series "Lonesome Dove"
could keep you busy for years.
Another goldmine would be to rent the old
classic movie "The Last Picture
Show" It will give you a real
insight into the people living in small town America.
These are just a few ideas that will help you
come up with an idea for a song where you are not just stating the
obvious. Remember we already know that it feels good to be in love
and it sucks to lose at love so tell us something new if you want to get
our attention.
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Western Heart Room
(Audio & Video of Independent Country
Artists)
Stop in and get to know the DJ's
and get them to play your music & YouTube
videos
Hello Everyone
I want to tell you about a new Stand Alone Chat
Room I have opened. By stand alone, I mean we are not part of a community
such as PalTalk and the many others now online. We are our own community of
DJ’s, Artist, Fans and Friends of Country Music. We are open 24/7/365 . The room was designed to provide a
meeting place for all the above. We currently have DJ’s and Artists
from all around the World who play their favorite music from you and
others.
The room also has full video capabilities with
television quality. The sound
quality is second to none on the Internet today. As each DJ playing his/her
favorite music, the variety of music ranges from early to top 40 current
Country, Bluegrass, Gospel and alternative as well as a few surprises
thrown in from time to time.
Planned events such as the following are
forthcoming and some are in place already.
- DJ’s playing your songs.
- Full Video’s shown in
here.
- Featured
Albums.
- CD Release
Parties.
- Karaoke
times
- Open Mic
night’s
- Give
aways
- Contest (Prizes
such as gift cards to well know national retail stores).
- Live Interviews and Telephone
Interviews.
And much
more.
Easy Instructions for the Western Heart Stand
Alone Music and Chat room.
Go to:
http://www.fantasyltd.com/gary/1.html
A Box will come up which will have 2 options.
1, “Will say, First time users click here.” The other will say
“Click Here To Enter Room”
If you have never been here before please click
on option 1 and follow simple instructions to download the Client. (Takes
about 30 seconds) When the TC Client comes up just click on
“RUN”. When it finishes, it will then
give you the option to “Click Here To Enter Room” It will then ask you for a User
Name and Password. Type in your name and click “Login” YOU DO NOT NEED A PASSWORD SO PLEASE LEAVE THIS BLANK. Please
click Login and it will bring you into the room.
Be sure to add to your favorites and do a save
as.
Come
and enjoy best sound on the Internet with full
Video.
Thank
you
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Oklahoma
Country Singer Ron Wayne Atwood http://www.myspace.com/ronwayneatwood
has developed a new breed of horses by
breeding the world famous 1/4 horse with a Kentucky Thoroughbred race
horse. He is
raising these horses on his Vinita, Oklahoma plantation and calling them
the Atwood
Half-Horse
As
demand is expected to be great for the Atwood Half Horse
Ron Wayne is making sure his friends in the music business get the first
shot at buying one of these wonderful animals. These horses are
energy efficient and endorsed by Al Gore as they only consume 1/2 the
energy of a regular horse and leave a minimum carbon footprint on the earth
(because they only have half as many feet). They are also well suited
pets for people who tend to pretty much do everything
half-assed.
All of the colts have been sold at the present time but if you will E Mail
Ron Wayne roadagents@esagelink.com he
can put one of next years foals on hold for you. Please include the
name you will be giving your new pony as this will tell Mr. Atwood a lot
about what kind of owner you will make should you end up with one of the
Atwood Half-Horses. "click" horse photo to visit Ron Wayne Atwood
website
E
Mail Ron Wayne Atwood
For those
of us who are easily entertained
"click" link below
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Buying a house in Nashville
?
If you are thinking of moving to Nashville and
need to buy a house I recommend you get in touch with my buddy Craig Stahl.
Some of you will know Craig
from his 13 years working with Alan Jackson and also as my partner in Okie
Acres Music & Studio.
Give him a call when you need property in
Nashville or sign up for his Newsletter
I hope you enjoyed our first issue of Roadie
Real Estate.com. Please email me your thoughts and suggestions. If you
liked it
please hit the
forward e-mail button at the bottom of the page. Please visit my website at
www.RoadieRealEstate.com
I would love t o help you buy
or sell your next home or help you with any of your Real Estate needs. If
you are not moving anytime soon,
please keep me in mind to be of service to
friends and family. I really appreciate your referals.
Craig Stahl "The Roadie
Realtor"
615-578-9175
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"When It's Too Country For
Everyone Else, It's Just Right For Me"
Erin
Hay
THE COLLECTION
"Click"
Photo to purchase Erin's
CD's THE CIRCLE
"Click" Yellow Button below to
play
Lo-Fi
Samples from THE CIRCLE CD
Lo-Fi Music Samples from this 23
song CD
"click" on EBAY Logo below
"Gossip
Column"
A little Cyber-Songbird told
me
.
"Click" photo to listen to the
squirrel play along with Mike Anderson
on his patriotic tribute to our
soldiers.
.
Now that Lonnie
has 5,029 subscribers to his
Country Music Newsletter you gotta be
"NUTS" not to send in your
GOSSIP like the people below did and get that fee advertisment for you and
your music. Tell the subscribers what you have been up to in the last
week or so.
Tell us about any concert
you have been to. Did you book a "Gig" to open for some big country
star, buy a new CD that you
love/hate, Did anyone cut one of you songwriters songs, did you hire a
great new demo singer,
go fishing, go
squirrel hunting (oops scratch that last
topic)
Don't forget you can add your E Mail or
website address to your GOSSIP E Mail to Lonnie. Just
mark GOSSIP in
Make
sure you put GOSSIP in the subject line of your E Mail when you send it so
it don't get
lost.
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Hi Lonnie,
I was in Nashville from 5-11-08
to 5-19-08
I sang at the NASHVILLE PALACE my song LOVE YOU ONLY. I'm
also still open for guests on my weekly radio show. It's a great way to
reach a worldwide audience. Reach me at popgoesthepoetry@msn.com
Ralph Watley
501-909-9539
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Greetings
to all of you from Rick @ EMM Radio!
I want to officially
announce
www.emmradio.com! EMM Radio now
has an official home on the internet! Pages are still being built for
the website, but part of the plan is to have various pages set aside for
'artist resources.' Separate pages with be created for songwriters,
music publishers, musicians, labels, pressing and marketing. The
purpose is intended to be a resource for artists that might be looking for
one or more of these services. If you can think of another resource
category that would be a valuable addition, please let me know. If
you are a provider for one of these types of services and would like to be
listed in the resource base, please email me at
rick@emmradio.com. EMM Radio advertising
rates, information on how to submit your music, EMM Radio merchandise, the
EMM Radio "Wall of Fame" (which is quickly becoming a popular area), and
many other sections are already online! Please feel free to send me
any comments and/or suggestions related to the site. Thank you for
your time in reading this! It is greatly appreciated. Yours in
country, Rick @ EMM Radio "It's A Country
Thang!"
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Hey
all,
Just wanted to drop you all a line and let you know that my
new website is
up and running. Stop by and take a look. Let me know
what you think. I am
still editing content, but the site is fully
functional. Thanks to everybody
for all the support.
Www.ericrichardsonline.com=============================================================================Wayne
Longtin returned from a 7 day road trip performing at Good Samaritan
Nursing Homes during National Nursing Home Week May 12-17th. Wayne
performed at 10 different homes during this week and the residents were
very pleased with his performances. He will be performing at other
Good Samaritan Homes in the future and discovered how grateful the
residents are for any kind of entertainment.
Wayne's new
CD "Be All You Can Be" will be available on CDBaby within the next
week. His song, "America's Best Friend" has been getting a lot
of radio play in the Central Minnesota region. Wayne says, "I heard
myself on the radio for the first time. At Burger King! I
reacted just like in the movies, hollering, "Hey, That's my song they're
playing!" The song was played on the local radio station all day as
Litchfield, MN. welcomed home some troops from Iraq. "They played it
for the troops after they were dismissed at the National Guard
Armory. If nothing else ever happens to this song, I've had my
reward!"
Wayne can be reached on his website at
www.waynelongtin.com=============================================================================
T.
Jae Christian Has just recorded his second duet with the great: T. GRAHAM
BROWN! The two T'S have come together to become a great duet team! Look for
a release soon!
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G'day
from Down Under!
Wow - did we do a couple of great shows this
weekend! Friday night's show they just would not let us stop and the people
kept on dancing...what a great feeling it is to know you have made people
happy if only for one night and they had a good time.
Then last
night I thought I'd died and gone to heaven hearing the harmonies that came
out of the guys in my trio backing me up...only hope the audience had as
much of a ball as we did!
COMING UP..finally the launch of my new CD
'Extraordinary Daze' will be held at Mascot RSL in Sydney,
Australia on 31st May. Don't worry if you can't be there, you can listen to
samples of the songs and read what they are about, where and who recorded
it etc on;
www.cdbaby.com/merilynsteele2Will let
you all know with an update how the night goes!
Til' then happy
songwriting.
Merilyn Steelewww.merilynsteele.comalteregoprom@gmail.com=============================================================================
HI
LONNIE.......
JUST WANT TO LET YOUR READERS KNOW, I HAVE A BACKLOG OF
LYRICS HERE THAT WOULD CHOKE A HORSE......IF ANYONE WOULD CARE TO VISIT MY
SITE
www.myspace.com/lancewtooheylyrics THEY
COULD CHECKOUT SOME OF MY WORKS. THE IMMENSLEY TALENTED TERESA SAWYER &
LONNIE GOOD HAVE COLLABORATED WITH ME ON A FEW OF MY WORKS, THEIR WORKS CAN
BE HEARD ON MY SITE.
HEADING TO THE STATES IN JUNE FOR A POETS "GET
TOGETHER" IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND WILL THEN BE VISITING TERESA AND LONNIE. SO
LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING THEM.......THANKYOU FOR YOUR TIME.....Lance W
Toohey
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From the Desk of
Gary Bradshaw
Subject:
PROMOTIONS/CHARTS
As I get hundreds of questions concerning this subject, I
felt the need to explain how it works and the differences between charts
and the methodology used to come up with them. I will only explain about
the Country Charts although many of them produce a chart of other
Genre’s as well.
We’ll start with New Music Weekly (NMW) one of the
leading Charts today, friendly to all, Majors, Major Independents, and
Independents. They have a group of Radio Stations both terrestrial and
Internet which they call Reporters. These Reporting stations report every
week which Artists/Song/Label and how many spins for each get played on
their station during each weeks reporting period.
New Music
Weekly(NMW)
http://www.newmusicweekly.com/ This Chart is for Current Singles Only, new releases. Each
week the reported playlist with its number of spins is computed and the
charts are then derived from the amount of spins reported to NMW. The
Artists with the most reported spins for that time frame is in the #1
position followed by the 2nd largest amount of spins and then the 3rd
etc. down to the Top 85 Artist reported that week. Their chart is divided
into 3 sections, Top 50 which gets printed in their Magazine. The next
section 51 thru 55 is called "Chartbound". The next section is called
"Country Up & Coming 56 thru 100. These are Artist/Songs that are
receiving enough Airplay or spins to be mentioned and watched. Many of them
will eventually reach the higher sections of the Charts and some will fall
by the wayside before reaching the other sections. All in all, these are
the Top 100 Artists with the highest amount of spins that week being
reported to NMW from their Reporter base
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Music Row (MR)
Music Row, also a very respected Magazine and Chart is very
much like the above NMW chart with the exception of, I don’t believe
they allow Internet Radio to Report. They also provide a great source for
Stats and other Chart information. Based in Nashville.
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Indie World Chart(IW)
IW is based in
Tennessee and produces a weekly chart based on all radio Station Playlist
sent to him by all stations providing they report the required information.
Name/Song/Label/Spins. This chart is also for Current Singles Only.
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Please keep in mind that some
Radio Stations do report to all the Trade Publications and some only report
to 1 of them. This is the reason for so many differences in each of the
Charts. All use different methods and reporter base information. You can be
doing great in one and not even show up in others.
Promotions is the single most
important thing you can do after you have a great project to Promote and
many fall very short in this area. Keep in mind that a good promoter has to
have a lot of knowledge about how the Music Business works and the many
changes that take place everyday. He/She has to be willing to go the extra
mile to get all that can be had from each project and should always be
aware of the songs around your project. Know your competition.
Promotions comes in many ways today, Telephone, Emails,
Friendships, Experience, Label help and support, Web Sites, Newsletters,
and Communications when needed
http://www.indieworldcountry.com/
ONLY. In almost all cases
her, these Artist and their current single release are being PROMOTED by
recognized Promoters with years of experience in this field. The
competition is fierce and promoters earn every dollar they are paid. NMW
provides a great deal of other important information for the professional
Artist, Label and Promoter. Based in California..
Also keep in mind that it all starts with great songs and great productions
and Great Promoters.
Many a great Songs and Albums have bit the dust way too
soon because of a lack of promotions or promoted by someone who really did
not know what they were doing. Kind of like going out and buying a new car,
bringing it home and refusing to buy any gas for it. You have a nice new
car but it’s not going anywhere because of no gas. Like any under
funded business it normally has to close its doors soon because they
can’t compete with the guy next door who is selling the same stuff
but well funded.
If you
would like to discuss Promotions and the cost in more depth, please call
602-896-9910 or email me at gbradshaw3@cox.net
.
Thank
you
Gary
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This is the famous YouTube
video
of the Korean baby
singing
"Hey, Jude by the
Beatles"
"Click" Blue Banner above to watch
Artists shopping for a
record deal.
I guess
one of the most asked guestions in the world has to be "How do I go about
getting a record deal". Well that is pretty easy to answer. No one
knows. Every deal is different. I do know that you have to do a
few things to increase the odds of a label paying any attention to
you. You need a photo, a demo and a bio.
Once you have those if you start to get some interest you will have
something that represents you and your little package can get passed around
to people who might be able to help you.
Photos are
simple enough. There's lots of people out there in the world that can
take a decent photo so find one. Just use common sense and make sure
the photo represents you.
The demo
can be a simple clean version of you singing the Star Spangled Banner or
Amazing Grace but if you can't sing it better than it has ever been sung
before you may want to spend a few bucks on a little more advanced
demo. If you can find you an original song that sounds like it could
be the next "Jesus Take The Wheel" you will have moved yourself to the
front of the line when it comes to getting a record deal.
The last thing
is a one page bio. Show some creativity here in the one
phase of getting a record deal that don't cost you a dime. If
you are going to try to tell some label you think you can write songs
remember they are going to read your bio and if it sounds like 99% of the
bios on MYSPACE and starts out with how you started singing 72 hours BEFORE
you were conceived and you have always dreamed of singing your songs for
the world don't be surprised if they don't believe you are gonna be the
next Kris Kristofferson. Last but not least don't bother people in
the business until you have these 3 basic things a photo, a
demo and a bio.
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Bengt
Pedersen (Norway)
