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Lonnie Ratliff Country Music Newsletter January 25th. , 2008 Note: Clicking on any Photo or Banner in this NEWSLETTER should take you to a website or play music. Please feel free to forward this Newsletter to any country music fans you know who might be interested and have them sign-up for their own copy at:
"Spotlight Artist" Sunny Sweeney
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Sunny Sweeney was born in Houston and raised in the piney woods of East
Texas. The town was named after it having this amazing “long”
view but it wasn't quite long enough for Sunny. Sunny's story is the
typical “This place is too small for me, so I gotta find something
I'm good at that's gonna get me outta here” story. “There's
nothing wrong with Longview. I love it as a matter of fact. I mean I was
raised there. I always felt safe, and I made some really good
friends.” However, Sunny just always knew that she would end up
somewhere besides small town East Texas. Raised in a very artistic family,
Sunny has been pushed since she was a little girl to follow her dreams and
just find SOMETHING to do that made her happy. So, she moved to Austin,
Texas after high school, and with the exception of a stint in New York
City, she has lived in Austin since. “New York got old, and I like
grass and trees and country music, so I moved back to Austin to become a
solid-gold country singer.”
Purchase Sunny Sweeney CD's at AMAZON
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Western Heart Promotions Subject: WHP Monthly Compilation CD. WHP is now accepting songs for the next Compilation CD Volume 86 mailed Worldwide to more than 600 Stations in the foreign Markets and 285 stations in the USA. Most all USA stations are Reporting stations who report to such Charting Trade Publications as New Music Weekly, Spins Tracking System, Roots Music Report, Music Row Mag., Indie World and various other chart compilers. The cost is $150.00 per single song. The cost for 2 or more releases paid for in advance comes with a $50.00 discount. Two (2) or more songs work out to be a total of $125.00 per song. Besides sending out a hard copy of the CD WHP also emails many of the Internet Radio Stations in an MP3 formats your current single release. WHP is one of the oldest Compilation CD’s in the business today and the WHP Company has more than 25 years of experience in the Music Business. Individual Promotions of your current single release to the Major Trades and Charts is another service offered by WHP. As promotions comes in several different forms and prices depending on the particular Chart or Trade Publication you want to chart in, please call the above numbers or email me for more information. WHP is a full service Music Business Company including Production, Manufacturing, Compilation CD, Song Acquisition, Touring/Booking, Promotions, Public Relations, Sales, Web Site Building and much more. As our Compilation CD’s fill up very fast, please contact us as soon as possible to insure you a spot on the Comp CD of your choice. Thank you and have a great day. Gary ********************
Lonnie's Recommended D.J. Mailing
List
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I realize
that many artists may not have enough money to ship their music to all of
the DJ's or they may just want to send out a test sample that they can
monitor and see how well the public likes their music before they commit to
a mass mailing that is so expensive. This list is not complete in any
way but it should help artists decide which DJ's are most likely to
play your music. Save this list because next week I will have
more DJ's.
(NOTE TO DJ's) If you
are Posting your Playlist on the Nashville Showcase Playlist Boards and are
playing over 50 % Indies just be patient and I will add you to this
recommended DJ list as soon as I can and you will also be on the final
DJ List of "Indie Friendly" radio
stations.
I only took
names from the Nashville Showcase AM & FM
Playlist Board and the Nashville Showcase
Internet Radio Playlist Board because that is the DJ's playlists
that I can look at every day. I hope this will help you artists
promote your career. (Note To Artists)
You can go to the two playlist boards (Websites Linked Below) and get the E
Mail address or mailing address of most of these
recommended DJ's. It is obvious that if you have enough
money you should go ahead and send to all the DJ's but if not this list is
a good place to start.
List is in random order.
Nashville Showcase AM & FM Playlist Board DJ
List
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I have added 4 DJ's to the AM-FM List this
week (They are in RED)
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DJ Kjell Horlin - MCWC Country
Radio - Sweden
DJ JOHN BJOERSVIK GRENSELAUS
COUNTRY FM - NORWAY
DJ Alan Potter - HHR - United
Kingdom
DJ Tony Slingsby -SLINGA’S
INDEPENDENT COUNTRY - AUSTRALIA
Country-Action
Show Syndicated - DJ Bjarne Christensen Hesselbjerggaard - DENMARK
Country Side - DJ
Etienne BERTHELS -
Belgium
"CountryExpress" - DJ Holger Petersen -
Denmark
MAKE MINE COUNTRY
- DJ Trudy Burke - Australia
Country Style - DJ
Kajetan Berezowski - Poland
GO WEST GO COUNTRY - DJ Hans Mair -
Austria (Indie Friendly)
Down Home Country - Doc Morrill -
Bangor, Maine USA (Plays mostly Indies leans traditional country)
Baybreeze Country - DJ Del Moller -
AUSTRALIA (Plays lots of Indies)
Southern First Play & Country
Express - DJ Noel Parry - New Zealand (Indie Friendly)
Peelstar Country Club - DJ Bert van der
Wijst - THE NETHERLANDS (Plays a lot of Indies)
Honky Tonks & Heartaches - DJ Barry
Wass - (Playing a lot of Indies)
Countrykanalen FM 105,9 - DJ Erik
Tøpholm - DENMARK (Playing about 50% Indies)
Radio Beverwijk - DJ George Backer - THE
NETHERLANDS (Playing Indies)
Bob's Country Show - DJ Bob Morgan - New
Zealand (Indie Friendly)
The Country Connection DJ Golden Graham
- UK (Playing Indies)
“Texas Radio” -
DJ Eddy & Ria Veldkamp - THE NETHERLANDS (Plays lots of Indies BUT you
must have a tie to TEXAS to be considered.
Countrytime DJ. Wenny B. Schramm - Denmark (Plays a lot of Indies) COUNTRY with SOUL - DJ GEORGE NIENARTOWICZ - Australia (Plays lots of Indies) MIDTFJORD RADIO GREAT COUNTRY - DJ. Herbert Fischer - DENMARK (Plays lots of Indies) Albertslund NærRadio - DJ Anne-Lykke Elling - (Plays lots of Indies) In The Saloon - DJ Jef Mertens - Belgium Travelling Country - DJ John Slaven - AUSTRALIA (Plays lots of Indies) Radio ”Dandelion” - DJ John Anderson - DENMARK (Plays losts of Indies Country Drive - DJ Graeme Godkin - AUSTRALIA (Plays lots of Indies) Whitestone Country - DJ Wyn Machon - NEW ZEALAND (Plays lots of Indies) Honky Tonk Time Machine - DJ GB - Australia (Plays lots of Indies) HILLBILLY JUKEBOX - Rolf Hierath - GERMANY (Plays lots of Indies) THAT'S COUNTRY - DJ Frank McHugh - AUSTRALIA ( Plays over 50% Indies) Down Under Country - DJ Derek S.M.Cusick - AUSTRALIA (Plays a lot of Indies) MUSIC4YOU - Bente Kyed - Denmark (Plays lots of Indies) COUNTRY LINE -ERIK VAN LIMBURG - (Plays a lot of Indies) BRTO Radio "SALOON" - Alex Pijnen - THE NETHERLANDS (Plays about 50% Indies) Get2-Country - Otto Teglgaard - DENMARK (Plays lots of Indies)
PeelGrass Radio Venray - Rein Wortelboer
- THE NETHERLANDS (Plays a lot of Indies)
Bay Breeze Country - Bob Atkins -
AUSTRALIA (100% Indie)
Note to AM-FM
DJ's: If you post your
playlist on a regular basis on the Nashville
Showcase AM-FM Playlist Board and are playing at least 50%
Indies E Mail me and I will add you to this list so artists can send you
their music -
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Brand New Feature! Internet DJ
List
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Nashville
Showcase Internet Radio Playlist Board DJ List
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DJ Joy And Pejay - Country Roads -
AUSTRALIA
Wies's Boot Scootin Country -
DJ Wies Boonstra - THE NETHERLANDS
Lone Star country - DJ Phil Hanna - USA
Kick's Country Time - DJ Kick
Trevors - Belgium
Classic Country Radio -
Randolph Michaud - USA
C.W. INTERNATIONAL - DJ
Wim Reparon - THE NETHERLANDS
Country Roads - DJ
Joy and Pejay - AUSTRALIA
Queen of Country Music 2 -
DJ Stevie(Stephanie) - USA
Grasshopper - DJ Grasshopper -
Canada
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Note to Internet
DJ's: If you post your
playlist on a regular basis on the Nashville Showcase Internet Radio
Playlist Board and are playing at least 50% Indies E Mail me and I will add
you to this list so artists can send you their music -
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"Hangin' Out With Uncle
Willam"
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Would I
Do It Again?
In 1965, I did
something that some people I had known since childhood considered downright
dumb. I moved to Nashville to become involved in the music endeavor
as a fulltime career. My basic idea was to play guitar and write
songs, but the foundation of the move was to find a way to be useful to
country music. After all, only to the extent that I was useful to the
music community could the music community be useful to me, as in making a
living.
Forty-plus
years later and the statistics are interesting. I made more money as
an actor than I did as a songwriter (at least so far) and I made more money
as an entertainment journalist than I did as an entertainer. So how
useful was I able to be? Well, let's see ... I had a hand in
"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" being the single from the
"Redheaded Stranger" album, I wrote the first article that
found Larry Gatlin on the cover of a national publication, I came up
with the title of an Everly Brothers album, I wrote the text for an
"Ivory Joe Hunter Day" resolution signed by the governor of
Tennessee, I've seen at least one gag on "Hee Haw" that came
directly from a suggestion I made on the set, and I helped write segments
of both the Johnny Cash Show and the comedy section of the Florence
Henderson cooking show on TNN.
Doesn't sound
like a lot for forty years, so there were surely other things I did.
My primary point is that I did whatever I had the opportunity and/or
ability to do. Oh, yeah, for the sake of clarification, when I said
"more money," at no point are we talking about the amounts of
money people normally associate with show business -- the same year I
appeared in a movie with Gregory Peck (which paid REALLY well), my
gross income for that year still left us within the national poverty
level. For the third of the first three years we were in
town.
Looking back
over the long hours, the poor pay, and the conglomerate effect of being a
part of the music endeavor yet not having any significant success in the
realization of my dream of becoming a major songwriter and a viable
entertainer, would I do it again? Those questions are not very
realistic because we can NOT go back and the general timing is always a
factor, but, in my case, it is a valid question. And the answer is
"yes" on one hand and "probably not" on the
other.
Would I try to
make a living in the music business TODAY, even if I were younger but knew
what I know today? No. I would do what I see so many
really cool people do -- find a job, maybe somewhat related to music, that
pays the bills and go pick and grin on the weekends with no worry of
"what's hot" this week. Actually, that's what I did back in
the 'Fifties and early 'Sixties -- when I graduated from high school (1958)
I didn't really like where The Music Industry was, so I went to college
with the idea of teaching high school English and history -- wow, that
would give me three months every year to play music or maybe even write a
book. Before I graduated, I got a job in law enforcement
communications, so I thought THAT would be a good way to feed the music
habit.
However, two
years after graduating from college, the complexity of the Nashville music
community had taken on a number of factors that screamed its head
off: "Hey, Bill Littleton, we're having a lot of fun, we're
making good money, and they even let us play music!!!" Ah, such
temptation. And I caved!!!
Sure enough, we
had a LOT of fun even though the money never got overly plentiful for me,
and I did get to play in addition to LISTEN to an enormous amount of
music. None of this is of any value, however, unless you can
relate personally. Should YOU move to Nashville, should you try to
make it a fulltime career, should you ...? Well, you're the only
person with those answers. I made the move back then because I didn't
want to spend the rest of my life wondering if I could have "made
it." I still don't know because there were a lot of factors
involved. From one perspective, I DID "make it."
Between Connie
and me, we made enough money to buy a very nice house and live in an
incredible circle of wonderful people. A life enriched by the quality
of life if not the balance in the bankbook. A life enriched by
watching history unfold and even jerking on a couple of those folds as they
resisted straightening out. A life enriched by genuine friends who
are still friends beyond the fastlane period when I was surrounded by folks
who saw me as The Guy From PERFORMANCE, a GPTK ("good person to
know). That inner circle is smaller than the big circle, but
that's good; it works like any other neighborhood -- you may know and be
known by everybody in town, but the real friends are never in big
numbers. After all, there are just so many folks who can fit around
your kitchen table or eat hotdogs on your deck.
But, you know
what? The real friends are what it's all about. Had the
internet and MySpace been available back in the 'Sixties, I might have
stayed in Carolina. Nashville has been a good mix for me; I'm glad
I've been here all this time, but I'm also glad I don't have to fight the
Music Row fight today. We didn't think of it as a fight back then; it
was simply "hustling around to do what we could do;" today's
major label domination by international conglomerates brings an urgency I
choose to avoid. Life is good.
Bill
Littleton
There's always
a chair with your name on it at Uncle Willam's Place http://www.unclewillamsplace.com
And you're welcome to hang out at http://www.MySpace.com/BillLittleton
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*********************** Original song Runnin' Down The Road
Runnin' Down The Road
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Brother Barry Stone pronounced you
married
Sister Sadie played piano as you
walked down the aisle
I stood in line to say
congratulations
Shook hands with your
husband and tried my best to smile
Outside the church we said goodbye
like old friends
If you felt anything for me ... that
day it didn't show
Then you drove away with him to
Dallas
Kickin' up the dust down that
Oklahoma road
.
(CHORUS)
I felt like
runnin' down the road screamin' like a
little kid "I wanna go"
My heart
was crying "Why not me" Baby can't you see I need you so
After all the
years, After all the tears
You'd think
old memories would lose their hold.... they'd let go
But every
time I think of you I still feel like runnin' down the road
.
(INST.)
(BRIDGE)
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And I think of you so often that the
edges of my mind are torn and frayed
When I think of life without you ..
I feel like runnin' down the road to yesterday
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(Chorus
#2)
I feel like
runnin' down the road screamin' like a
little kid "I wanna go"
My heart's
still crying "Why not me" Baby can't you see I need you so
After all
the years, After all the tears
You'd think
old memories would lose their hold....They'd let go
But every
time I think of you I still feel like runnin' down the road
Every time
I think of you I still feel like
Runnin'
down the road
.
Lonnie Ratliff/Ann Leisten/Craig
Stahl
Okie Acres Music (BMI)
"Click Yellow Speaker" Doug Jones singing Runnin' Down The Road
Tested on Real Player & Media Player. Works on both players _______ _______ "Click Yellow Speaker" below Erin Hay singing Runnin' Down The Road
Tested on Real Player & Media Player. Works on both players
Runnin' Down The Road
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Brother Barry Stone pronounced you
married
Sister Sadie played piano you walked
back down the aisle
I stood in line to say
congratulations
I spoke to your bride I even tried
my best to smile
Outside the church we said goodbye
like old friends
If you felt anything for me ... that
day it didn't show
Then you drove away with her to
Dallas
Kickin' up the dust down that Oklahoma
road
.
(CHORUS)
I felt like
runnin' down the road screamin' like a
little kid "I wanna go"
My heart
was crying "Why not me" Baby
can't you see I need you so
After all
the years, After all the tears you'd
think old memories would lose their hold
They'd let
go
But every
time I think of you I still feel like runnin' down the road
.
(INST.)
(BRIDGE)
.
And I think of you so often that the
edges of my mind are torn and frayed
When I think of life without you ..
I feel like runnin' down the road to yesterday
.
(Chorus
#2)
I feel like
runnin' down the road screamin' like a
little kid "I wanna go"
My heart's
still crying "Why not me" Baby can't you see I need you so
After all
the years, After all the tears you'd
think old memories would lose their hold
They'd let
go
But every
time I think of you I still feel like runnin' down the road
Every time
I think of you I still feel like runnin'
down the road
.
Copr. Lonnie Ratliff/Ann Leisten/Craig Stahl
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