Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


The Guthrie Girls

They’re Arlo’s kids. I just had the most amazing experience. You see in the wee hours, the 17th, 18th and 19th floor are turned over to these showcases, hotel rooms with players. Last night I was flummoxed, but tonight I got tips. My newfound buddy from the High Sierra Music Festival told me to show […]

Tim Easton At Folk Alliance

I was TRANSFIXED! I’m still tingling. This is exactly what music is all about. Direct expression from one human being to another, with no committee, no filter messing up the message. And that’s why we’re living in a new golden age. Distribution has been flattened. Everyone can play. But are you any good? I now […]

Sun Studios

The tour was trash. A likable guy telling all the stories you and I already know. But upstairs, after you pay your money to the tattooed clerk, after you wait until the half hour for the tour to begin, you enter a museum, a veritable history of not only Sun Studios, but recording itself. It’s […]

Memphis

I’m going to Memphis, Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee… The guy on the plane next to me was in the Air Force. He got a call last night to deploy to Tennessee to fire satellites. I asked him if he was afraid of being killed. He told me he put himself in the line of fire so […]