a songwriter can make?
A. Exposing their songs to publishers before they are ready. It’s not all that difficult to get a door open, but keeping it open… that’s a different matter… Q. I know my songs are as good as anything out there? How come this %*&@$ Publisher didn t jump on them like fleas on a dog? A. Generally, Publishers reject songs for one of three reasons. • The song is not competitive. • The song is good but not great, and not what a particular Publisher is looking for. • The song is great, but the Publisher is having such a bad day, week, month, year, life, that he was only being polite in listening in the first place. Either way, he/she is not rejecting you. He/she is rejecting your song. Q. Do I need to move to Nashville to be successful in Country Music? A. Great songs are everything, but it s very difficult to judge how your songs stack up if you’re not part of the Nashville scene (plus, if you love music, it s Hog Heaven). A successful songwriter once told me that if you want to climb mo
