Inside Track On Music Row: May 2012
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“I think people know what’s honest,” says singer-songwriter Jason Matthews. “And if it’s honest music, it’s going to connect with people. Absolutely.” We’re sitting in the office adjacent…
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On November 1, 1956, my father, Merle Kilgore, was a radio disc jockey in Shreveport, La. That morning, he was on the air announcing the news that he…
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Decades before artists like Lady Antebellum and the Band Perry broke out as co-ed trios at country radio, Baillie And The Boys pioneered the sound with a slew…
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“We obviously haven’t been recording music, but we’ve been working. We continue to work,” Neal McCoy tells me when I ask him what he’s been doing in…
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“My mom had heard me play covers but she always told me, ‘Anybody can cover a song. Write a song’ ...…
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In mid-January, Eric Lee Beddingfield and his band left Nashville and traveled all day for a show in Riverton, Ill., just outside of Springfield. They’d been to Riverton…
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Indie Connect
What It Takes To Get Your Country Song Cut »
© 2012 Vinny Ribas Every songwriter dreams of getting that ‘big cut.’ Many don’t realize what it really takes to make that happen. Getting a major cut often requires several key components: Great…
Read More »Picking The Right Band Members »
Most indie artists have expereinced the challenge of finding and keeping the right band members. Hopefully these interview questions will help you find exactly who you ae looking for:…
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Headlines
You’ve Been Sentenced! to Host First Annual Celebrity Charity Tournament During CMA »
Country Music Artists Locash Cowboys, Buddy Jewell, Julie Roberts, Mark Wills And More Compete To Create The Winning Sentence…
Read More »Lynyrd Skynyrd’s First Studio Album Since “God & Guns” To Be Released in August 2012 »
Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records announced today the release of Last Of A Dying Breed from Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band’s first studio album…
Read More »Nashville’s Herrick Wins Independent Music Award »
Nashville band, Herrick, has joined a diverse roster of self-released and independent label talent culled from 6 continents named by Music…
Read More »Nashville Audio Engineering Society to Hold Lifetime Achievement Awards Honoring Audio Professionals Who Helped Create The Nashville Sound »
The Nashville Audio Engineering Society will present its Lifetime Achievement Awards on June 3, 2012 at 2:00pm at the Country…
Read More »Power Players from Film, TV and Music Come Together in Nashville »
The premier entertainment industry conference, the Nashville Screenwriters Conference is gearing up for it’s fourteenth annual event at the…
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