https://spoti.fi/42l6cXf This is why you never sell your publishing. I knew Luke Combs covered Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” I made a mental note to catch it at some point, but it wasn’t front of mind, not something I had to do right away, until I saw this: https://bit.ly/44PNXuH That’s a TikTok clip. You should watch […]

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Eric Andersen was a folkie in Greenwich Village in the sixties, recorded the classic album “Blue River’ in the seventies, and is still touring and recording to this day. Eric’s still got something to say, he believes music can make a difference, and this is his story. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eric-andersen/id1316200737?i=1000611718864 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/0121082b-7e53-4bfc-b5db-6a913bbff048/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-eric-andersen https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast/episode/eric-andersen-302830883

He wasn’t a household name until he switched to Warner Brothers Records. That’s the power of a label. Today there are only three majors, half a century ago there were tons of companies, analogous the tech startups of the first decade of this century. And this plethora was always fighting for radio airplay, and if […]