That’s the only way to really establish a career today. The TikTok paradigm…that’s a long shot. And even the singles the majors push up the charts don’t draw an audience live. The key is to cement your bond with fans on stage. And that goes against everything we’ve been told for the last twenty years. […]

Keyboardist extraordinaire Bill Payne is an original member of Little Feat, and has been a member of the Doobie Brothers and the Leftover Salmon too. Bill has written songs and recorded with a who’s who of artists. This is his story. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bill-payne/id1316200737?i=1000623296335 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/98319d16-9a4f-478c-b70f-d104ef825824/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-bill-payne https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast/episode/bill-payne-305913228

Taylor Swift was terrible on the Grammys. Maybe the worst performance ever. She was way off-key singing with Stevie Nicks, in front of the whole world. I’d been getting e-mail from people for years saying she couldn’t sing, but had held back from writing anything. But here was evidence.  I thought it would end her […]

1 The absolute highlight was Stevie Wonder singing “You’ve Got It Bad Girl” from “Talking Book.” History is wrong, “Songs In the Key of Life” is not Stevie Wonder’s best album, not even close, that’s “Talking Book.” The first step in the new Wonder paradigm, wherein he had total control over his albums, was 1972’s […]