Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Tour Grosses

Kenny Chesney, Brooks & Dunn, Sugarland, Sara Evans, Pat Green Saturday 7/7/07Qwest Field-Seattle, WAGross: $3,281,12145,939/45,939 (100%)Ticket prices: $91.50/$51.50 That’s a lot of fucking money. I’d say if you want to profit in the future, rather than hunt down the latest rap star, you should be trolling for cowboy hats. These guys do well EVERYWHERE! And […]

Dirty Water

 I love the Internet. From: Luke LewisSubject: Re: Road Map For The Blues Check out Joe Ely records to find more Hancock songs._Find "Dirty Water" by Buddy and Julie Miller. It will blow you away. Remember that first Robbie Robertson album? With "Broken Arrow"? Robbie can’t sing for shit, but oh the VIBE of that […]

Road Map For The Blues

Satellite radio is a filter. That’s its main attraction. That’s one of the main reasons I tune in. To hear new stuff. Just now, pulling into my garage, the deejay on XM’s X Country said two people had birthdays today, Julie Miller and Butch Hancock. Oh, what a wonderful world we live in. Acts that […]

The Price Must Drop

I’m finally slogging through "The Long Tail". Oh, I bought it when it came out, but I could never get past the introduction, maybe because I felt I already knew what Chris Anderson was going to say, but also because it lacked a certain readability, it was not inviting, it didn’t draw me in the […]