This blog series will explore music publishing, giving a little bit of history and outlining the basic steps necessary to form a music publishing company. Part 1 looks at a brief history and background of music publishing. Modern music publishing in the United States can trace its roots to "Tin Pan Alley," the name given [...]
Amy Kurland's Blue Bird Cafe on Hillsboro Road in Nashville is the kind of stuff of which fairy tales are made. Now, Kurland has left the legacy in the hands of Nashville's best songwriting organization, NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) -- a fitting end a dynasty. The legend of Blue Bird Cafe, which first opened [...]
For years now, a huge battle has been brewing between proponents of performance royalties for the owners of sound recording copyrights to be paid by terrestrial radio stations (those broadcasting through the air) and it has been gathering steam in the last several months. The battle is being waged between the giants of industry, the [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvpkd9eJhlc&NR=1] Clay Walker's "Fall" Video Together with Clay Mills and Shane Minor, my new client Sonny Lemaire is one of three songwriters on Clay Walker's new single, Fall, featured in the video link above. The song is currently climbing Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and, after a 31-week run so far, is breaking well into [...]
There appears to be a slight ripple of a trend among courts to take a stricter look at the evidence being presented by the RIAA in its crusade against digital downloads, based primarily on the evidence of user names and IP addresses assembled by their expert consultants, MediaSentry. In the RIAA's case against Jeff Dangler, [...]
Perhaps Porter Wagoner should be remembered as the original "Rhinestone Cowboy" because of his penchant for sparkling two-piece rhinestone often adorned with wagon wheels and other cowboy themes -- at one point he owned over 60 suits. The longtime country music legend died at 8:25 p.m. CDT in a Nashville hospice Sunday night at the [...]
Earlier this week, Tom Baldrica, vice president of marketing at Sony BMG, announced that Heather McBee has been promoted to vice president of digital business. McBee, who has been with the label for 14 years, was formerly senior director of that department. Baldrica said in a prepared statement: "I'm so proud of this promotion. Heather [...]
Leon Russell hits the tour circuit harder than any person I know. He will making several Tennessee appearances close to home in Knoxville, Memphis and then Nashville in the upcoming months, so locals will be able to catch this rare performer and Tennessee treasure. On Saturday, November 3, 2007, Leon will be playing at 9 [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIoxm-zvTw&rel=1] The Nashville Chamber Orchestra's next installment of its Acoustic Cafe series is next Friday, November 2nd at 8 p.m. in the Grace Chapel, located in Lieper's Fork, Tennessee. The event will feature resident musician, Darrell Scott, and the Acoustic All-stars, which, together with the [...]
Early in October, Joey Lee, former CEO at Buddy Lee Attractions , left that agency to form 360 Artist Agency, a full-service talent agency. This ends a very long tenure for the namesake's son at the helm of the famous Nashville agency. Mr. Lee took several of his clients with him to the the new [...]
