Big City Folks

A number of years ago, a fellow songwriter friend of mine who I deeply respect told me that one of my songs was bad. Actually, he was more specific than that, he said the lyrics felt forced and that I was trying too hard with the lyrics. He was very nice about it, and in […]

You may know of the northeast megalopolis as the socio-geographical designation of over 50 million inhabitants on the eastern seaboard, which includes the cities of (at least) Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington D.C. I’ve always been fascinated with the possibility of setting up a more formalized musician pipeline between the cities – […]

Let me start out by stating an obvious truth. You do not need a publicist or publicity or marketing in order to be a legitimate musician or artist. There are plenty of musicians that pay for publicity that the world would be better with them not doing so. There are also plenty of musicians whose […]

A common complaint from musicians in the modern era is that people asking for music services too often seek to pay musicians in exposure in lieu of actual money. Musicians usually react to such offers by pointing out that exposures aren’t a form of literal currency, and so, for instance, exposure can’t be used to […]

I have a non-musician acquaintance who unfriended me on Facebook a few years ago. In fact, I think it was for the best, because our interactions were becoming increasingly awkward and strained. Prominently featured amongst that awkwardness was their growing resentment that things were going well for me, socially speaking. Not that I’ve achieved anything […]