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Hi Friend,
Welcome to volume four of the newsletter. Just a reminder that you can access the previous three editions by clickinghere.
As we enter the final quarter of 2007, I hope you're busy turning your musical plans into reality. If you're not, then use this newsletter as your much-needed kick in the pants and get going! In that spirit, I'm listing a few websites that are worthy of your attention. Each is a valuable resource for anyone serious about his or her music career.
To begin with, I've recently reconnected with Michael Laskow, the founder and big boss at Taxi. In order to tell you more about Michael and what Taxi has to offer, I've made him my spotlighted artist. By the way, if you cross paths with Michael in the future, get him to tell you some of his stories about working in the trenches as an engineer and producer in the 70's and 80's. It's enough to say he knows where the bodies are buried!
Next, Benny Carreon, in conjunction with his partner Chris Keaton, has recently launched a great new website calledMusic Bovine which is an extremely useful source for information about the music industry.
Then there's Greg Sims who is partner in a site called My Music Source.com specializing in putting songwriters and artists in touch with music supervisors. Greg is also a gifted producer in his own right whose incredibly talented wife,Annie, is a recording artist for Aspirion Records.
 Finally, I'd like to thank Glen Caruba and Pearl Drums for their sponsorship in the form of the Master Premium Series Drum Kit sitting happily in the Nashville Studio and Ryan Smith of Shure Microphones for the great mics that surround it.
Enjoy the newsletter and click here to drop me a line to fill me in on what you're up to. I love hearing from you.
Now go get 'em!
-Cliff
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Your career as a recording artist hinges on many things from the songs you choose to the musicianship on your records. But the single most important thing for your artist identity is your voice. Your ultimate goal as a vocalist is to sound exactly like yourself. In other words, the more relaxed and confident you are as a singer, the more people will know who you are and what you’re about. In reality, it’s predominantly musicians who listen to CD’s for the musicianship, but the people who decide to buy your CD will connect with your voice first and everything else much later. [MORE...] |
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| MICHAEL LASKOW
Since this issue of the newsletter is about musical resources, I've decided to feature my longtime friend and role model, Michael Laskow. While Michael isn't necessarily an artist in the strictest sense of the word, he has worked in the trenches as an engineer and producer with acts from Eric Clapton to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. These days Michael is better known as the founder and head of Taxi, the independent A&R vehicle.
Michael and I met very shortly after he started Taxi and to say that the company has come a long way would be a true understatement. What started as a simple concept has become a very real song pitching and A&R resource for songwriters and artists in a huge variety of genres.[MORE...] |
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