Record companies are like the Democrats, they refuse to innovate, they refuse to embrace new strategies, they refuse to live in the now, never mind the future. WHAT? If you follow the Street, which most musicians do not, you will learn that the stocks of record companies are moribund. Yet Spotify is flourishing. Why? Because […]

It’s not about the album. It’s not even about Spotify, et al. It’s about social media. And somehow the algorithm didn’t serve it up to me and every story about him didn’t mention this. I’ve got to give the guy credit. He broke through doing it the newfangled way. Going direct to the customer with […]

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“Dreams I’ll Never See”: https://www.tiktok.com/@teeharpo/video/7470338734437797150?_r=1&_t=ZT-8uTftkeGuqs 1 You couldn’t get that rich. Then again, rich was relative. You formed a band because you loved the music. Continued to play because the money was good and it kept you from the assembly line and boring professional jobs. You were living an alternative lifestyle. Sleeping until noon. But […]