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    • Song City

      By: Andrew Vaughan I met with two record company executives from Europe last week, which set me thinking about the real music power base in Nashville. Wanting to show off the new Nashville, I thought I'd take them somewhere cool and I picked a classy Gulch restaurant, Sambuca. I had expected a jazz, blues, or maybe bluegrass band to impress my European...
    • CMA Music Fest Country's Biggest Event

      By: Andrew Vaughan   CMA Music Fest is country music biggest event of the year. Despite Kix Brooks proclaiming that the CMA needs to pay artists to appear (they have always appeared for free since the event is set up as a charity), a hoist of superstars and exciting up-and-comers will be in town for Nashville's glitziest schmoozefest and musical...
    • UniversalPoster.com and American Music Channel Giveaways

      By Andrew Vaughan Let's start 2010 with something free. I was contacted recently by an old country music buddy in England about this new concept artist posters. Paul Harris is the guy's name who runs the company and as an ex-singer/songwriter he loves to visit Nashville and do business with Music City. He started a poster company in England offering special...
    • 12 Ways For A Singer Or Musician To Get More Gigs

      By: Vinny Ribas Whether you’re looking to join a band, get called for pick-up gigs or generate demo work, there are ways that you can increase chances. Here are just a few: 1.) Be easily accessible. For example, have a Blackberry or other phone that enables you to get phone calls, e-mails and text messages just about anywhere. That way, you don’...
    • Protecting Your Reputation

      By: Vinny Ribas As a performer, you are in the public eye. That means that you are constantly being watched (live, video, interviews, etc.), heard (music, interviews, etc.), followed (Twitter, Facebook), compared (to other artists, past, present, and future), judged (personally and professionally), and talked about (in the news, on chat rooms, in blogs, on...
    • Interview with The Bravery

      By: Nikki Spalaris Some time ago, I was listening to my Sirius/XM radio and a song came on to what I THOUGHT was an all 80’s music channels. I couldn’t recognize who it was, but it sounded familiar and it had all the elements of a great 80’s song. Now given my age (which we won't mention), I thought I knew EVERY band from the 80’s. I...
    • Conversation Corner with Trailer Choir

      By: Andrew Vaughan Toby Keith is a smart cookie. He runs his Show Dog empire from an unassuming building a few blocks from Nashville’s famed Music Row, and he clearly knows a thing about A&R. Record companies usually employ an A&R (artist and repertoire, but that’s kind of misleading) Exec to look after their artists and sign new talent...
    • Holiday Conversation Corner with Becky Schlegel

      By: Andrew Vaughan 1) What is your favorite Holiday memory as a child? "I don't know what it is about toys, but I love to collect them. Lately, I've been thinking about my Fisher Price Cash Register. I got this toy from 'Santa' for Christmas when I was five years old. I still have it today (with all of the pen marks and colored-in, ripped decals),...
    • The Problem with Tin Pan South

      By: Emily J Ramey I wrote once long ago that songwriters seem like pensive people. Not people who separate themselves from the rest of us, but rather people who understand the world a little better than we do, or at least can express their perceptions of it in more profound ways, and therefore relate differently to it. Songwriters, good ones that...
    • Where Are You Spending Your Energy?

      By: Vinny Ribas The amount of things that an artist needs to do to be ‘successful’ can seem overwhelming at times. There’s songwriting, recording, rehearsing, taking instrument or voice lessons, performing, recording, marketing, booking gigs, making travel arrangements, generating publicity, buying equipment, bookkeeping, and much more....
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    By: Andrew Vaughan

    It’s not often that a concert surprises me these days. I’d hate to count the number of gig hours I’ve clocked writing about music these past twenty years and the truth is, sadly, that shining lights of pure musical wonder become harder and harder to find.

    Taking all that into consideration and throwing in the couple of hours driving to Huntsville, Alabama to see a show, it needed to be a pretty good show to knock me off my seat.

    But that’s what I got. It was Victoria Shaw and friends. For anyone wondering, Victoria Shaw is one of Nashville’s pre-eminent songwriters, responsible for several number one hits, such as Garth Brooks’ immense, "The River,” and several top notch solo albums.

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