1. Excellence If it’s not great, don’t release it. Put it up on YouTube, not the album, if you’re trying to get everybody’s attention, make sure your music deserves it. 2. Availability Put your complete album on YouTube and all streaming services. That’s where people discover your music. Your hard core fans will buy it, […]

When you’re really depressed, you don’t want to hear anything, no music will work. I learned that in William Styron’s account of his fall off the edge, into a mental hospital, “Darkness Visible.” And that’s true. It’s like you can’t handle the noise. And you don’t want to be lifted back up, you need to […]

What do you do when everybody is watching? He wrote songs for Gary Lewis, made an album with Marc Benno, but no one knew who Leon Russell was until he went on the road with a conglomeration of thirty-odd people entitled “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” a legendary tour from which Joe Cocker emerged drunk, broke […]

I know, I know, they reinvented themselves as a country act, but it all began with the incredible first two tracks on the band’s debut. They were on Capricorn, need we know more? Yes, back when the Allman Brothers were the most credible band in the land, the thinking man’s Grateful Dead, before they broke […]