If you were doing career counseling for a band in Dryprong, Louisiana, what steps would you advise them to take in order to get signed or at least noticed?
I think the best thing to do is not to move to New York, L.A., or Nashville. That is lesson number one. Because you will come to one of these places and find out that there are ten thousand others like you trying to do the exact same thing. They are bombarding industry people with music and those people just don’t have the time and energy, even though it’s right under their nose, to hear it and sign it. I think a lot of times you are better off staying wherever you are, and utilizing the resources there. Find the best players in town. If you aren’t a great songwriter find that person in town who is an English Lit major who might be a great lyric writer, who may not even be a musician but has the lyrical gift to find that person and utilize their talents. Then play and broaden your touring circle within maybe a hundred to two-hundred mile radius of where you live. And if you can broaden it to a three to five-hundred mile radius that’s even better. And if there are any large metropolitan
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