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Welcome to the new social network for songwriters, artists, venues, producers, and music fans. At "Club Songwriter" you are able to build your own webpage, post videos and music, BLOG, send messages, make friends, and communicate with an incredible collection of professionals in the entertainment industry. We are also developing a nationwide “Deborah Allen Presents…” tour featuring Deborah with her talented songwriter and artist friends. We will have a nationwide songwriting contest voted on by the "Club Songwriter Community" with a local winner in each marketplace getting to perform with Deborah and her friends. Sponsors provide some great prizes for the winners. Club Songwriter, also invites producers, musicians, and fans to make themselves at home among the amazing talent they will discover here!
As a major recording artist, Deborah’s incredible string of successes as a songwriter have fast established her as one of the hottest young writers in town. Her first recording project for Giant Records, “Delta Dreamland”, in 1993, included the hit singles, “Rock Me”, and “If You’re Not Gonna Love Me”, making a welcomed re-emergence of Deborah Allen on the charts.
I was born in Savannah, GA, raised on nearby Tybee Island, and moved to Nashville in 1986 to pursue songwriting. I am fortunate to have written for some of my favorites in my time here including Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Bonnie Raitt, Lee Roy Parnell, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Delbert McClinton, Reba McEntire, Suzy Bogguss, Don Williams and Hal Ketchum.
After a move to Nashville in 1988, Marc-Alan scored a cut with Shelby Lynne his first night in town. He has had success in Nashville as a writer, several publishing deals, and cuts by John Berry and David Ball, including the current single “Too Much Blood in My Alcohol Level” on the Ball “Freewheeler” album. He has co-written with the best and along with his former back-up singers “The Kinleys,” he has opened shows for Charlie Daniels, Garth Brooks, Ricochet, and Patty Loveless.
Matraca Berg is a country music singer-songwriter who has written hits for artists like Martina McBride ("Wild Angels", "Cry On The Shoulder of The Road"), Suzy Bogguss ("Hey Cinderella"), Trisha Yearwood ("XXs And OOS", "Wrong Side Of Memphis", "Everybody Knows"), Pam Tillis ("Calico Plains"), Deana Carter ("We Danced Anyway"), and The Dixie Chicks ("If I Fall You're Going Down With Me").
Berg is most famous for writing the CMA Song of the Year, "Strawberry Wine" for Deana Carter. Berg has recorded several solo albums, as well, and continues to write for others, in between working on a brand new album.
Number one hits "In Between Dances" (Pam Tillis), co-written with Barry Alfonso, and "It Must Be Love" (Ty Herndon), co-written with Jack Sundrud. He also landed platinum album cuts with "Where I Used to Have a Heart" (Martina McBride), "All the Things We've Never Done" (Martina McBride), co-written with Jeff Pennig, and "Even a Cowboy Can Dream" (Trisha Yearwood), also co-written with long-time collaborator Barry Alfonso. Another movie theme followed when Craig's song "Where I Used To Have A Heart" was featured in the thriller "Switchback"
JASON BLUME is one of the few songwriters to ever achieve the distinction of having his songs on Billboard’s Pop, R&B, and Country charts - - all at the same time. With his songs recorded by pop superstars Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and Jesse McCartney as well as country stars including Collin Raye, the Oak Ridge Boys and John Berry, Blume’s songs are included on albums that have sold more than 50 million copies!
Bobby Braddock is one of the most highly regarded & respected song- writers in Nashville & has been a mainstay of the country music industry for over 30 years. His songs have become classics, given stars their "career songs" & given country music fans decades of musical enjoyment.
Combines inspirational craft tips with practical business lessons
Features examples and career advice drawn from successful artists in a variety of genres, from country to hip-hop
Perfect for beginners who want an overview of the business
Writing great songs is only half the work of becoming a successful songwriter - you also have to manage your business. Perfect for beginners and working songwriters alike, The Craft & Business of Songwriting features dozens of exercises, examples, and anecdotes from successful songwriters including Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, and Paul McCartney. With all this and more, readers will find the insider secrets they need to make them more competitive in a crowded marketplace."
Over the course of more than three decades, Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music. With classic albums including Late For The Sky, The Pretender, Running On Empty, and For Everyman, and songs like "Doctor My Eyes," "Rock Me On The Water," and "Lives In The Balance," he has defined a genre of songwriting that is charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. Along the way, he has touched the hearts and minds of countless fans worldwide.
Jackson’s artistry was recognized with his 2004 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He also received in 2004 an honorary Doctorate of Music from Occidental College in Los Angeles, for "a remarkable musical career that has successfully combined an intensely personal artistry with a broader vision of social justice."
Browne’s latest album release is 2005’s Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1, presenting twelve songs culled from his acclaimed solo acoustic concerts performed worldwide over the past few years. The disc also captures spirited and humorous exchanges between Jackson and his audience, making for an intimate listening experience
Gary continues to write great music with great people: Desmond Child, Ringo Starr, Carole King, Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Levanthal, Richard Marx, Michael Bolton, and Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies just to name a few.
From producing to singing, Gary does it all, and is progressively getting to do it all more often, producing an album for Disney in 1995, and part of Olivia Newton John’s album “Back With A Heart” in 1997. He has vocals as well as multi-instrumental performance credits on dozens of albums. Gary has no intention of slowing down in the future, and plans to get his name on a lot more albums, and maybe not just writer’s credits.
Brian Burns has, for many years, been regarded as one of Texas’ top performing songwriters, his work having been covered by a number of legendary artists. But over the past few years, Brian has emerged as one of his state's most powerful and engaging performers. His songs explore both the poignant and the humorous sides of humanity, drawing out the things we’ve all felt and wish we could have said. The warmth, wit, and eclecticism of his performances captivate audiences night after night.
Already a songwriter of great stature and popular appeal, having written songs like, “Lucille,” recorded by Kenny Rogers, “Chains,” by Patty Loveless, “Papa Was a Good Man,” by Johnny Cash, “There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang,” by Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, “Nobody’s Fool,” by Jim Reeves, and “The Old, Old House,” recorded by such varied artists as George Jones, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley, Hal Bynum made his mark on country music long ago. With the release of his fourth album as a solo artist, An American Prayer, Bynum extends his craft and solidifies his stature as a writer of remarkable talent and as a performer with unusual sensitivity and depth.
Marshall Chapman was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina. To date she has released ten critically acclaimed albums, and her songs have been recorded by a variety of artists including Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Wynonna, Joe Cocker, Irma Thomas, Jimmy Buffett, Jessi Colter, Dion, Tanya Tucker, Russ Taff, Olivia Newton-John, Sawyer Brown, Mindy McCready, Conway Twitty, Greg "Fingers" Taylor, Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Milsap, and The Uppity Blues Women. She has toured extensively on her own and opened shows for everybody from John Prine and Jimmy Buffett to Jerry Lee Lewis and The Ramones.
Songwriting legend Guy Clark doesn't merely compose songs; he projects images and characters with the kind of hands-on care and respect of a literary master. Clark works slowly and with strict attention to detail, and has produced an impressive collection of timeless gems, leaving very little waste behind. The emotional level of his work, as well as the admiration and esteem of his peers, consistently transcends sales figures and musical genres. Using everyday language to construct extraordinary songs for more than 35 years, Clark continues to be the type of songwriter whom young artists study and seasoned writers, as well discriminating listeners, revere.
Born in Whitehaven, Tennessee, alongside Highway 61 which brought a generation of bluesmen north from the Mississippi delta to Memphis, Jack Clement played a crucial part in bringing rock 'n' roll music to the rest of the world. During a career of treading thin lines between folk singers, polka bands, outlaw songwriters, and the commercial countrypolitan music industry, this visionary maverick combined song publishing, music and film production, a record company and recording studios decades before the current trend of international conglomeration. He still runs a pared-down empire from his house, The Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa.Gibson Southern Jumbo SJ-200 "I thought that a recording studio was the worst place in the world to make a record, so I built this studio at home 30 years ago," he says. "Now everyone wants one!"
Christopher Cross (born Christopher Geppert on May 3, 1951 in San Antonio, Texas) is an Oscar-winning, Golden Globe-winning, and five-time Grammy-winning American singer and songwriter. He is best known for composing "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" for the film Arthur starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minelli. The song won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981 (with co-composers Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen.)
Cross first played with an Austin-based cover band named Flash before signing a solo contract with Warner Bros. Cross released his self-titled debut album Christopher Cross in 1979, which garnered him five Grammy Awards. He is, along with Norah Jones, the only artist to receive all of the "Big Four" Grammy Awards (Best Record, Song, Album, and New Artist) in the same year (it should be noted however that although Jones sang the song, she did not personally receive the Song of the Year Grammy because it is a songwriter's award). Hits from this album included "Sailing", "Ride Like the Wind" (featuring backing vocals by Michael McDonald) and "Never Be the Same."
Rodney J. Crowell (born August 7, 1950) is a country music singer/songwriter.
Crowell was born in Houston, Texas to James Walter Crowell and Addie Cauzette Willoughby. He is considered to be part of both the alternative country and the mainstream country music camps[citation needed]. He is a contemporary of Steve Earle and, like Earle, was also influenced by the songwriting greats Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. Rodney played guitar and sang for three years in Emmylou Harris' "Hot Band".
On any given day, in one of Nashville's myriad recording studios, there's likely to be an artist recording a song written by the legendary Hank Cochran. And that's been the case for the past six decades, as hundreds have mined the massive Hank Cochran catalog for award-winning gems such as "I Fall to Pieces," "She's Got You," "Make the World Go Away," "A Little Bitty Tear," "The Chair," "Don't Touch Me," and "Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurtin' Me." Not bad for a man whose pre-hit-songwriter resume included job titles such as "roustabout" and "roughneck" in the oil fields of New Mexico, and whose early musical career included a stint with similarly-named (though unrelated) rockabilly star Eddie Cochran.
Helen Darling is just coming off a crossover #1 hit song “Bring On The Rain” recorded by Jo Dee Messina and Tim McGraw. This song was subsequently nominated for a Grammy, an ACM and a CMA award. In October 2002, Darling was honored by NSAI members with a superior creativity award and by BMI with a citation of achievement award for “Bring On The Rain”. She has 2 more songs slated to be released to radio in 2003.
Grammy award winning artist Brad Davis spent ten years (1992-2002) performing on stage as a member of Marty Stuart’s road band. For the past six years he has played lead acoustic guitar with Earl Scruggs and Friends, and for the past five years he has played lead electric and acoustic guitar with movie actor Billy Bob Thornton’s rock band. He spent two years (2003-2004) as the guitar player for the Sam Bush Band and also performed with John Jorgenson’s Gypsy jazz Quintet in 2005. He occasionally performs with an exciting new bluegrass band, calling themselves "Greenbroke," consisting of Brad Davis, John Cowan, John Moore, and Dennis Caplinger.
For the past 20 years, Bob DiPiero has helped define the best that is Music Row. A legendarily funny and compelling performer, he is one of a handful setting the bar for present-day songwriter/entertainers. He is also a key part of the city's new leadership, a board member of the Country Music Association, a Leadership Nashville alumnus and former Nashville Songwriters Association, Inc., president who brings the creative and business communities together as few can.
Lee Domann is an award-winning songwriter, storyteller, and modern-day troubadour. His music has been recorded by a variety of artists including Kathy Mattea, Jake Hess, The Gold City Quartet, The Peasall Sisters, Karen Peck, The Bishops, and Riders In the Sky. His songs have received extensive airplay and have appeared on the charts of Billboard Magazine.
Bob Dylan is one of the towering figures of late 20th century popular music, responsible for such songs as "All Along The Watchtower" (made into a hit by Jimi Hendrix), "Like a Rolling Stone," "Tangled Up in Blue," "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and "Lay Lady Lay." Dylan has been recording and performing since 1962, mixing folk, country, blues and rock and sometimes startling his fans but almost always pleasing the critics. Although Dylan was an influential pop figure during the youth movement of the 1960s, his first number one hit, "Knocking on Heaven's Door," didn't come until 1973. During the '80s he toured extensively, and in the '90s his songs found a new audience and more acclaim from the music industry: in 1991 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy; his 1997 album Time Out of Mind won three Grammys; and in 2001 Dylan won an Oscar for "Things Have Changed," from the movie Wonder Boys (2000). In 2006 he released his first album in five years, Modern Times. It included the song "When the Deal Goes Down," which was made into a video directed by Bennett Miller and featuring Scarlett Johannson
While struggling in the music industry, Steve paid the bills by taking on odd jobs. "I've never had a job longer than three months in my life. I've always led a bohemian lifestyle. I have framed houses, worked on oil rigs, worked on shrimp boats and in restaurants, but it was different for me because I knew I was always going to get out". Steve worked offshore for a month. "I came back with the most money I'd ever had in my life and I got in the most trouble I'd ever gotten into my life", he recalls.
sara hickman likes to write about things that pop into her head, like bowls full of stars and kerosene and faithful hearts and cantaloupe and birdhouses.
she likes to sing, too. she will whip out her guitar at parties and around campfires to get everyone singing along. she likes lots of voices singing. as she says,"it only takes one voice to start a choir."
she feels sad when she sees homeless people, and stops to see what can be done. she likes to go in hospitals and sing for kids and cancer patients, and she wishes she could breakdance really well to raise funds for the children of uganda, but since she isn't much of a dancer, she joined a blogathon instead and wrote for 24 hours straight to raise money/awareness.
her high score in bowling is 197.
she rode in an elevator with pete townshend, sang a duet with george burns, wrote flamenco guitar music for a play that starred melissa gilbert, and charmed johnny carson twice on his late night show.
she has recorded 14 albums to date, some for big people, some for small.
she doodles, and will leave a chalk mark on your sidewalk if you're not home.
she thinks austin is weirdly wonderful and encourages it to stay that way.
if you want to start a dialogue, you can always email her at sara@sarahickman.com, and, dagnabit, if she won't answer you ASAP.
"I Fall To Pieces"..."Life Turned Her That Way"..."Above And Beyond"... "I've Got a Tiger By The Tail"... "Don't Tell Me What To Do"..."Somebody Should Leave"..."Somewhere Tonight"..."Too Many Rivers"... "Why Not Me"..."Busted" "Blame It on Your Heart"...
Most people knew Harlan Howard by the songs he penned - more than 4,000 of them. In a career that spanned more than six decades, the "Dean of Nashville Songwriters" imbued himself as one of the greatest - and most prolific – songwriters of the Twentieth Century. One critic daringly dubbed him the "Irving Berlin of Country" because of the number of classics he added to the annals of country music.
More than 100 of his self-penned tunes hit the top ten and his compositions became chart-toppers for artists as diverse as Patsy Cline, Ray Charles, Buck Owens, Dean Martin, The Judds, Reba McEntire, Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell, and Dolly Parton. But Harlan Howard's friends knew there was more to the man than song titles. Behind his enshrinements in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the CMA Hall of Fame, the National Academy of Popular Music Hall of Fame and the Grammy Hall of Fame was a complex and unique man - a true interpreter of life well and fully lived.
Lee Roy Parnell, the Texas-born and –bred country hitmaker with an ornery streak of southern rock ‘n’ soul ‘n’ blues in his system, has signed with Universal South Records and released his first new album in four years, tellingly titled Back To The Well. It is, in all respects, the sound of an artist reclaiming his natural turf by embracing who he is and using the strengths of his past to inform his present direction.
Launched with a funky, shuffling backbeat that sets the stage for the entrance, seconds later, of signature, searing jabs of electric slide guitar, the album opening "Back to the Well” signals the end of the “long dry spell” Parnell laments in the lyrics.
From the London Palladium to Nashville's legendary Bluebird Café, Wayland Patton’s songs have been heard around the world. As a writer, he’s enjoyed sales of over 14 million records, and three decades of hits.
Raised on a farm near Fort Worth, Texas, Patton paid his dues like many before him, singing in church, and at talent shows but he paid his bills by selling cars. He was named “Salesman of the Month” but soon lost his title, and his job, when he began leaving the lot to jot down song ideas.
Since she released her last record, Gretchen Peters, a Nashville hit songwriter with a seemingly charmed and easy life has been through the wringer.
Accused at one point of having a midlife crisis, she thought about it a little while and then, despite the negative connotation, said, “Hell yes, I’m having a midlife crisis. Midlife is when people should be reassessing. By the time you’ve reached that age you’ve realized that it ain’t endless. It’s going to end. And it’s going by faster and faster. So, by god, make the most of it!”
“A midlife epiphany” is perhaps a better description of what Peters had one day in 2004 on a tour bus somewhere in the U.K., where she’s enjoyed a thriving, decade-long career as a performer on top of her American songwriting success. It was a realization that she needed to take control of her own life, and it would turn her world upside-down and inside-out before culminating in Burnt Toast & Offerings, a deeply personal coming-to-terms record that both reveals and transcends the specifics.
Hugh Prestwood has been writing hits for two decades. He was discovered in 1978 by Judy Collins, who gave him his first hit (Hard Times For Lovers), and subsequently recorded five more of his songs.
n 1991 Prestwood was honored at the annual BMI Awards with the 23rd Robert J. Burton Song Of The Year award for "Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart". He was also picked by Billboard Magazine as the #2 country songwriter of that year. Billboard currently lists "Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart" as the 5th biggest country hit of this decade.
Prine went from being a local singer/songwriter to being an artist on a national label, lavished with praise from critics around the country. Throughout Prine's major label migrations, which would eventually cover eight albums and two companies, he continued refining his voice and attracting fans who closely identified with his emotional sharp shooting. "It's a great feeling when you put something in a song and other people say that's exactly how they feel. That's the most gratifying thing about songwriting for me: it's always been a real outlet for me-being able to put those feeling down. Among the songs that Prine wrote during this period were such classics as "Please Don't Bury Me," "Fish And Whistle," and "Souvenirs"; and there were also the more humorous offerings which proved that Prine could find the irony in it all: "Dear Abby", "Sabu Visits The Twin Cities", "Illegal Smile", even " Christmas In Prison."
But John Prine's special visions and personal integrity -- something which attracted Bette Midler to cover "Hello In There", Bonnie Raitt to adopt "Angel From Montgomery" as her own, and the numerous country artists such as Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash to release their versions of "Unwed Fathers" -- wasn't best served by the big labels' way of doing business. He had his following, but there had to be something else to making records.. So he called it quits with the big companies and took some time to re-think what he was doing. Out of that soul searching, Prine decided to put on another hat -- record company executive.
Willis Alan Ramsey, a singer-songwriter with deep Texas roots, released his first and only album, called Willis Alan Ramsey, in 1972 on Leon Russell's Shelter Records label. The recording was a critical success that included "Boy From Oklahoma", a tribute to Woody Guthrie. Jimmy Buffett and Jerry Jeff Waker, among others, covered Ramsey's songs, but the song that became best known was a knockoff Ramsey called "Muskrat Candlelight". Released by the pop group America, it was later recorded and retitled "Muskrat Love" by The Captain and Tennille and reached the Billboard Top 10, becoming one of the most popular songs of our time. Ramsey eventually left both Shelter Records and the United States, moving to Great Britain in the 1980's to explore Celtic songwriting and instrumental traditions.
When he returned to the United States, he was reintroduced to Lyle Lovett, who had run the University of Texas coffeehouse where Ramsey played in the early 1970's. He and Lovett wrote the song, "North Dakota", heard on Lovett's 1992 album, Joshua Judges Ruth. A few years later, Shawn Colvin recorded "Satin Sheets" which helped stimulate interest in a new Ramsey recording. Lovett, who called Willis Alan Ramsey "one of the greatest records of all time", has since covered a newer Ramsey song, "Sleepwalking". With a new album still in the works, Ramsey has begun touring for the first time in seven years, performing this year at the Smithsonian's Woody Guthrie Tribute in Washington DC, the Kerville Folk Festival, the annual Folk Alliance Convention in Cleveland, The Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and several shows around the Southwest.
His self titled debut recording has been re-released by Koch Records and is creating a whole new generation of fans around the world.
“If I were free, I would answer any question
With a brush stroke upon canvas, And my words would all fall out in poetry
I would sing to you a sunset, draw your face inside a symphony
If I were free”
- from If I Were Free by Paul Reisler and Angela Kaset
“If I were Free” is a manifesto for living the musical, the creative life. It’s a 30-year journey for Paul Reisler as he explores the musical life—a life where you respond to what’s going on around you in music. Through his own music as performer, writer and recording artist and through his songwriting teaching for adults and children, he inspires others to explore that creative landscape.
He’s created a direct and emotional music that cuts across borders—combining folk roots, world music eclecticism, classical precision, and new age mysticism with the vitality of contemporary music. As the Washington Post says, his music "climbs up the Blue Ridge and down to the bayou and back up to the Himalayas. Goose bumps are a risk."
He’s got a voracious musical appetite. Known for his many years as founder and leader of Trapezoid for over 25 years, he’s recently embarked on several new musical adventures: His new band Paul Reisler & A Thousand Questions featuring Howard Levy and Angela Kaset with their new album At Night the Roses Tango , his Kid Pan Alley children’s songwriting project, and his duo with Amy Speace. He also continues perform with the inter-disciplinary Ki Theatre and compose for film, theatre and orchestra. (link to aesop’s fables)
He’s passionate about inspiring other people to live the musical life. He’s one of the most popular songwriting teachers in the country and he’s also the founder and artistic director of Kid Pan Alley.
Neely Reynolds is a Singer/Songwriter who loves to play coffee houses. Neely's style is folk-country with a buttermilk smooth voice. Who performs Americana music Folk/Country cover tunes and original songs with imaginative lyrics.
Neely is the Fort Worth NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association, International) Regional Workshop Coordinator and serves on the Board of Directors for the Fort Worth Songwriters Association.
Is the Producer & Host for the Fort Worth Community Cable Television Show “THE SONG IN ALL OF US”. Also, Teaches Songwriting & Music Business for TCU Extended Learning Program.
Neely Reynolds has appeared on ABC Wide World of Entertainment, Merv Griffin Show, Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and was a recording artist for 20th Century Fox Records. Neely has performed at Colleges, Universities, Clubs, Concerts, Opryland U.S.A. and Six Flags Over Texas.
Currently Neely Reynolds is an Independent Recording Artist, Producer and Publisher with Joseph Wyndell Productions and Neely Reynolds Music, BMI.
A solo artist in Texas for five years, Dan's previous 18 years were spent in Nashville Tennessee honing his craft as a songwriter. Dan has penned numerous billboard chart songs including serveral for mega superstar Garth Brooks. When Dan teamed up with Brooks and Bryan Kennedy to write the #1 smash "The Beaches of Cheyenne", Roberts was off and running. Garth signed Roberts and Kennedy to a two-year deal to open his world tour in 1996-97. The dou opened more Garth Brooks shows than any other opening act in Garth Brooks' career.
Wherever the road led him on his brief fifty-two year tour of this sad and beautiful planet, Townes Van Zandt's reputation had a way of preceding him. He was a living legend albeit more often than not an unknown one. Van Zandt was a rambler, gambler, hell-bent drunk and arguably the greatest American songwriter of his day. The first time Emmylou Harris laid eyes on him in the late sixties, at Folk City in Greenwich Village, she swore Van Zandt was the re-incarnation of Hank Williams but with a twist. That twist to which Emmylou referred was Van Zandts incandescent lyrics, which he expressed with pristine imagery and harrowing honesty.
John Townes Van Zandt came kickin and screamin into this life on March 7, 1944 in Fort Worth Texas. A true Texan, Townes kin were both oil barons and cattle rustlers. He wasn't born to money as much as history. Van Zandt County in west Texas had been christened in honor of his father's illustrious ancestors (Isaac, who was sent by Sam Houston to Washington cut the deal to annex Texas and Keebler, a General who built banks and brought the railroad to Fort Worth).
Grammy award-winning songwriter Jon Vezner is a tunesmith of rare sensitivity and dry wit. His catalogue of recorded songs, topped by the poignant “Where’ve You Been,” reflects his straight-to-the heart sensibility and sensitivity. Vezner weaves the particulars of his own feelings with the lives of people he has known into universal themes that deeply touch listeners’ emotions.
"I write...for people, for the artist and (they) all have different personalities. I just write what I think will suit them..sort of a tailor-made song. Some ideas come out of the blue, but not usually. I guess the more you write, the more you're likely to come up with ideas. It's just labor, that's all there is to it....The title tells the story. If you can get a real good title, you've got something. I always write from the title. I've never written a song without the title...The words and music come together. It just sort of comes to you. The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen..." "(Best tunes) are songs with a face. You recognize them. You know them. It's like a person. They have a face that's outstanding. Other songs don't have a face; you just hear them, that's all. The really good ones are few and far between."
Born to a musical family, Ron began performing at the age of four. His love of music has transcended into a timeless sound full of soul and passion. Ron skillfully represents his Texan roots of story telling through song, and his voice echoes the influences of his childhood growing up on the East side of San Antonio, TX.
I’m sure, at some point in time, you have heard and liked Dianne Warren’s productions. You’ll be surprised of how many musicians collaborated with her.
A 3-time Grammy winner, a five-time ASCAP Songwriter of the Year winner, and a two-time BMI Songwriter of the Year winner. Her songs have appeared in over 50 movies, including Ghostbusters, Space Jam, Prince of Egypt, Up Close and Personal, The Preacher’s Wife, and White Men Can’t Jump.
Clarifying himself as a romanticist, Webb’s use of vivid imagery simultaneously captures and involves his listeners’ emotions, which should come as no surprise to the songwriter who states, “I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.”
Americana singer/songwriter Kevin Welch left his Oklahoma home at age 17 to pursue a life in music, settling in Nashville in 1978 after years of traveling. He soon signed on as a staff writer at Sony/Tree, over the decade to follow authoring songs for artists including Waylon Jennings, Roger Miller, Trisha Yearwood, Ricky Skaggs, and the Highwaymen; Welch's self-titled solo debut finally appeared on Reprise in 1990, followed two years later by the acclaimed Western Beat. Country radio remained resistant to his downbeat, acoustic style, however, and in 1995 he teamed with fellow Nashville renegades Kieran Kane, Tammy Rogers, and Harry Stinson to form his own independent label, Dead Reckoning. Welch's first album for the label, Life Down Here on Earth, followed soon after, and in 1999 he returned with Beneath My Wheels. Between 1999 and 2001, Welch recorded the Millionaire album with friends from Denmark called the Danes, and released it in the U.S. on Dead Reckoning. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Written by Jason Ankeny
Andy Wilkinson is a writer and singer of contemporary western folk music. Through his poems and songs, he weaves images of people and places in telling the tales of the American West of yesterday and today.
His material comes from true stories of the past and present, real events in the lives and times of the people of the West like his distant uncle Charlie Goodnight, pioneer trail-driver and cattleman, or Comanche chief Quanah Parker, or Billy the Kid. But most of his stories are taken from extraordinary happenings in the lives of ordinary people -- an angel on the running board of a Depression-era rancher's truck, a baby still-born to a young mother alone in a remote dugout on the Plains, the stirring epitaph burned by cowpunchers on a board marking the grave of their young comrade.
More than drawing inspiration from these stories, Andy thoroughly researches each song or poem, making personal pilgrimages to the sites of the events and spending hours in libraries and museums and interviews. His solo acoustic performances are highlighted by his folksy, informative renditions of the stories behind the songs, leaving his audiences both entertained and educated. He is unique in a world of music written for the lowest common denominator.
Many of the stars of the music industry have recorded Steve Young songs, and in some cases forged a career image around them. "Lonesome, Orn'ry & Mean," for example, became the signature tune for 'Outlaw' Waylon Jennings. Hank Williams Jr.'s cover of "Montgomery In The Rain" remains a classic.
Certainly the most-covered Steve Young song of all is "Seven Bridges Road," which has been recorded at various times by artists like Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, Iain Matthews, the Eagles, [Ricochet, and, most recently, Dolly Parton.
While Steve Young songs have brought commercial success to others, Young has never been close enough to the mainstream to sustain his occasional brushes with stardom . He has been unwilling to accept the loss of artistic control that the industry expects of its stars.
Mosesavalon.com is an award-winning online resource for both musicians and music lawyers. Created with the same candor and cool edginess of Avalon's top-selling insiders' reference guide, Confessions of a Record Producer: How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business, the site is the first of its kind. It offers a blend of unique resources for veterans and emerging music business professionals and artists. It also provides a safe-haven where industry pros can candidly post concerns about the latest danger zones in the music industry.
Songwriters Hall of Fame works to benefit, support and attract new talent to the songwriting profession, through an extensive array of programs, scholarships, promotional activities and publications for aspiring songwriters.
Everything about the business side of the songwriter's profession - information, education, and the accumulated experience of music business professionals.
Our faculty is made up of music business pros dedicated to helping the next generation of songwriters learn the ins and outs of the business.
I've got a whole lot of lyrics for you to read here, but you'll need your speakers to hear them! The best part about my site is that MP3 songs accompany the lyrics in the Top 20 sections. Just click and enjoy right on this site...no players to download, no waiting (even for dial-up). It's pretty cool!
We've got lyrics for today's hottest artists, some older lyrics in the archives, a tribute to the Man in Black, and more. There are also some really cool country ringtone links you gotta check out!
With more than 20 years in the music business as a successful songwriter and record producer, Kim Copeland has emerged as one of the industry’s most valued leaders.
A staff writer at Sage House Music (Nashville), Kim’s songs have been recorded by numerous artists in Canada, Europe and the U.S., including former Curb Records artist Barry Lee White (Square One Records) and Lonnie Spiker (Megalith Nashville) and Rachel Williams of Nashville Star fame. She has also released two albums of her own material, to tremendous critical acclaim.
Kim’s work as a producer consistently receives rave reviews.
The Wellspring is designed to be a source of information, inspiration and income for songwriters. We hope our content will help you put your songs in front of people who are willing to pay you for them.
Many songwriters pitch music to publishers in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville or New York, which is terrific. Our goal is to simplify some alternative methods for earning money with your original songs by placing them in film, TV, commercials and other media projects.
BMI is a performing right organization: It collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
As a performing right organization, BMI issues licenses to various users of music, including television and radio stations and networks; new media, including the Internet and mobile technologies such as ringtones and ringbacks; satellite audio services like XM and Sirius; nightclubs, discos, hotels, bars, restaurants and other venues; digital jukeboxes; and live concerts. It then tracks public performances of its members' music, and collects and distributes licensing revenues for those performances as royalties to the more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers it represents, as well as the thousands of creators from around the world who have chosen BMI for representation in the U.S.
ASCAP is a membership association of more than 285,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization created and controlled by composers, songwriters and music publishers, with a Board of Directors elected by and from the membership.
ASCAP protects the rights of its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works. ASCAP's licensees encompass all who want to perform copyrighted music publicly. ASCAP makes giving and obtaining permission to perform music simple for both creators and users of music.
SESAC was founded in 1930, making it the second oldest performing rights organization in the United States. SESAC's repertory, once limited to European and gospel music, has diversified to include today's most popular music, including R&B/hip-hop, dance, rock classics, country hits, the best of Latina music, Contemporary Christian, the coolest jazz, and the television and film music of Hollywood’s hottest composers.
SESAC's corporate headquarters in Nashville houses all of the company's divisions, from creative to licensing to administration. The company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and London.
Tamera Bennett was named a "2006 Best Lawyer in Dallas Under 40" by D Magazine.
The firm's mission is to counsel businesses and individuals in the protection and exploitation of their creative endeavors. The firm's focus of copyright, trademark and entertainment law is integrated with a corporate law practice to provide solutions to general business questions.
SoundExchange®, Inc. is a dynamic, 501(c)(6) nonprofit performance rights organization embodying hundreds of recording companies and thousands of artists united in receiving fair compensation for the licensing of their music in the new and ever-expanding digital world. Modern technology makes all of our lives a little bit simpler and SoundExchange takes full advantage of its accuracy and efficiency to license, collect and distribute public performance revenues for sound recording copyright owners (SRCOs) and artists for noninteractive digital transmissions on cable, satellite and webcast services.
Prior to 1995, SRCOs in the United States did not have a performance right. This meant that, unlike their counterparts in most of Europe and other nations around the world, recording companies and artists were not entitled to receive payment for the public performance of their works. Users of music, the digital music service providers, freely performed these works at will, without a dime being paid to the rightful owners of those recordings or the featured artists who performed the songs - the recordings which created the backbone of their business.
HFA is the foremost mechanical licensing, collection, and distribution agency for music publishers in the U.S. Our processes, culture, and technology are client-driven and results-oriented. We continually strive to add value and strength to the music rights industry.
The J.A.M.Program (Junior ASCAP Members) was started so that teenagers who are interested in music, both its creation and the business, would have a place to learn about different aspects of the music industry. J.A.M. gives teens the opportunity to get involved in a real music business organization, while keeping up with their favorite music creators, and hopefully learning a thing or two from them. As a member, you'll be eligible to receive cool stuff, select discounts, and special benefits. The site features helpful and informative articles that give you an inside look at the inner workings of the music industry, interviews with professional songwriters and composers, and articles on the craft of songwriting.
Webster's Dictionary is the common title given to English language dictionaries in the United States, derived from American lexicographer Noah Webster. In the United States, the phrase Webster's has become a genericized trademark for dictionaries. Although Merriam-Webster dictionaries are descended from those of the original purchasers of Noah Webster's work, many other dictionaries bear his name, such as those by the publishers Random House and John Wiley & Sons.
Google is a search engine owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services.
A Practical Guide to Doing Business as a Songwriter (Billboard Books)
Learning how to write great songs is not enough. Without a firm grasp of the rudiments of music publishing, and a solid knowledge of how songs generate income, how they may be protected, and how to organize a business, songwriters leave themselves adrift in a sea of obstacles and challenges, unable to navigate the roiling waters of today's music business.
This Business of Songwriting is the first book to demystify the process of doing business as a songwriter. It provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of business-related topics and issues that all songwriters need to understand, and it presents accessible explanations and samples of the contracts, licenses, and legal agreements that songwriters are likely to encounter throughout their careers.
The book also discusses how to get a publisher - and get songs recorded; an explanation of how songs generate income from digital and physical sales, as well as from radio, television, and Internet airplay; and from live performances. Also, the issues of copyright and infringement are addressed. It defines the terms that songwriters need to understand in order to be knowledgeable about the music business; walks readers step-by-step through the process of starting and operating their own publishing company; explains copublishing and foreign subpublishing; and teaches songwriters how to successfully pitch their songs to publishers, artists, managers, A & R representatives, and producers. The unique issues facing performing songwriters are addressed, as well as those who write songs for the Christian, children's, video games, musical theater, and jingles markets. Additionally, the book offers a detailed explanation of how the singles and album charts work; a comprehensive comparison of how performing rights organizations monitor and distribute royalties; and provides valuable information about how to organize a songwriting business.
Readers will learn that the business skills and knowledge they need can be acquired, as the author shares his insights and expertise gained from more than twenty years "on both sides of the desk" in the music business.
How did a medium-sized Southern river town become arguably the most important music center in America? In How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A., we learn how a single studio in a tiny duplex house became Music Row, a ten-block area populated by hundreds of talented people whose job is to simply make music.
The book features stories from publishers, songwriters and others who help tell the evolution of this fabled center of music. It's where Elvis ushered in the commercial rock 'n' roll explosion by recording "Heartbreak Hotel," Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Willie Nelson taught mainstream America to love soulful ballads, and Bob Dylan recorded three of his most important albums.
The full-length CD includes 12 recordings made in the early studios of Music Row, giving listeners a rare chance to hear the demos made by some of Nashville's most talented artists. Songs include Bye, Bye, Love, Crazy, King of the Road, Walkin' After Midnight and He Stopped Loving Her Today. 2006, Book & CD, 373 pages.
How to Write Songs on Keyboards helps both keyboard and guitar players find and develop interesting keyboard chords and chord sequences that they can use in their own songs. Rather than trying to teach intricate pieces of music, the book breaks things down into a simple style, concentrating on basic chords and ideas that can be gradually elaborated to create more complex structures. A visual system that virtually eliminates the use of standard music notation allows guitarists who are used to using guitar tablature feel totally at home. Songwriting issues are also analyzed, including key changes and writing songs in minor keys. The straightforward style of How to Write Songs on Keyboards will have musicians writing on a keyboard with ease
Chord Master is the latest book in a series that includes the bestselling How To Write Songs On Guitar, Riffs and The Songwriting Sourcebook. Unlike traditional chord dictionaries, Chord Master is more than a catalogue of chord shapes. It takes the time to discuss each of the chord types and patterns a guitarist is likely to come across, why they sound the way they do, how to use them in songwriting, and how to play them easily. Chord Master includes:
* Over 1000 chords and their variations
* Chords arranged by key, by type, or by musical style
* Chord secrets of famous songs revealed
* A 20-track audio CD demonstrating chords and chord sequences
The book that EVERY music fan will want this Christmas: an unforgettable examination of the songs we all cry along to What is it about depressing songs that make such a lasting impression on people's minds - the lyrical tugging of the heartstrings? The melancholy melody? If you're a true connoisseur, these elements are just the beginning, as Tom Reynolds illustrates brilliantly in this addictive book. With a heavy heart and a tear in his beer, Reynolds painstakingly analyses the mysterious allure of songs that crush our spirits by looking at 52 depressing songs - from top-10 hits to cultish dirges - that have earned our slavish devotion over the years. Breaking up his list into 10 categories of gloom and doom - from Teenage Car Crash anthems to She-Hates-Me-I-Hate-Her ditties - the author pines away over musical elements before digging in to reveal the suicidal heart of each and every song - a list that includes artists as diverse as Joy Division, Bobby Darin, Counting Crows, Evanescence, Bruce Springsteen and Barry Manilow. Complete with a ranked countdown from 52 to 1 and wonderfully dreary black and white line drawings throughout, I Hate Myself and Want to Die is a must-have compilation of melodic misery - and a perfect Christmas gift.
The Key To Survival and Success in the World of the Arts
gilli moon
published by Warrior Girl Music
2nd edition
170 pages; 5.5" x 8.5"
ISBN 0-9579906-0-X
Bar code: 9780957990609
gilli moon's "I AM A Professional Artist - The Key To Survival And Success in the World of The Arts," is available now. For artists of all genres, this book will certainly change the thinking of any professional artist who may doubt themselves or their art, who may feel pressured by the industry, or may feel the hardship of the roller coaster ride. "I AM a Professional Artist" combines a self-empowering practical guide in surviving and succeeding in the Arts with key business principles and spiritual nourishment. Whether you are a musician, singer/songwriter. actor, screen writer, author, painter, film director, etc., this book is FOR YOU!
about the book
Some say succeeding in the Arts as a professional Artist is all about fame and fortune. So much of our desires are based on false illusions about the industry and what we read in glossy magazines. Being a professional Artist is a life long journey of becoming who you want to be, and achieving success through what you love to do. It's about living your dream. It's also about setting goals that you alone determine if they have rewarded you rather than what the industry defines as "success." The Arts industry, whether that be in music, theatre, film, writing, dance or any business about Art, can be cruel and very un-artistic. It's often about survival, especially survival of the fittest. It can feel like a competitive war against large corporations, those who judge you (which can even include your family) and the other artists who are also climbing their way to the top.
Gilli Moon, artist, author and record company owner, brings to you her first book, "I Am a Professional Artist" offering Artists who've chosen the professional path, practical steps in harnessing one's creative abilities to succeed and survive in the Arts and enjoy your artistry at the same time. Including interviews with various professional Artists, "I Am a Professional Artist" combines a self-empowering practical guide in surviving and succeeding in the Arts with key business principles and spiritual nourishment. Consider it an Artistic soul's survival guide in business!
"I AM a Professional Artist" follows 2 simple principles: If you want to be a professional Artist, the first thing to realize is that you have to be two people: An Artist, and a Business person. The second principle is based on her own coined phrase:
The three Os: Optimism + Organized = Opportunity
"I Am a Professional Artist" will certainly change the thinking of any professional artist who may doubt themselves or their art, who may feel pressured by the industry, or may feel the hardship of the roller coaster ride.
When in doubt, say I AM!
Published since 1964, This Business of Music is recognized as the industry textbook, and Krasilovsky, a music and copyright lawyer, offers broad and deep treatment of contracts, royalties, loans, tax issues, videos, and copyright. The new edition presents the industry in four parts: an overview, the record industry, music writers and publishers, and other aspects of the business. The coverage of technology makes sense of recent and coming changes to the laws affecting the industry, the new music delivery mechanisms, and the impact on the organizations that oversee performance rights. The writing is clear, and Krasilovsky presents complicated legal, financial, and strategic information without oversimplifying. An exceptionally rich appendix reprints important primary-source documents like the Berne Convention and the 1996 WIPO Memorandum. There is also a directory of music industry web sites. The attached CD-ROM contains copyright regulations and registration material along with numerous forms, agreements, and licenses. Both books are excellent references that improve and expand upon the earlier editions. All You Need To Know will be most appreciated by performers and writers, while This Business will be helpful to those who work on the business side.DJoan Pedzich, Harris Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Are you a creative person who desperately wants to tell the world about your talents and your art but lacks the time, money, and know-how? Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is full of clever and creative ideas you can use to successfully get the word out about who you are and what you do quickly, easily, and cheaply.
Everything you need to know about marketing yourself is included in this book. Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is packed with proven techniques that will work for you whether you are an author, actor, artist, or accordion player who wants fresh, off-beat, and cost-effective ways to build a business or develop a successful and fulfilling career.
Full of winning strategies, innovative ideas, and proven sales and marketing techniques, Lee Silber will show you how to go from starving artist to superstar status with smart advice, including:
* How to market without money
* How to create marketing materials that will sell you even when you're not around
* How to build a buzz using word of mouth
* How to use the Internet in ways you never thought of to promote yourself
* How to get the leaders in your field to endorse and help you.
Self-promotion is one of the most difficult things a creative person must do. It is also the most critical. Open this book to any page and chances are you will find something that can help you overcome this hurdle and get the attention and recognition you and your talents deserve.
Are you a creative person who desperately wants to tell the world about your talents and your art but lacks the time, money, and know-how? Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is full of clever and creative ideas you can use to successfully get the word out about who you are and what you do quickly, easily, and cheaply.
Everything you need to know about marketing yourself is included in this book. Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is packed with proven techniques that will work for you whether you are an author, actor, artist, or accordion player who wants fresh, off-beat, and cost-effective ways to build a business or develop a successful and fulfilling career.
Full of winning strategies, innovative ideas, and proven sales and marketing techniques, Lee Silber will show you how to go from starving artist to superstar status with smart advice, including:
* How to market without money
* How to create marketing materials that will sell you even when you're not around
* How to build a buzz using word of mouth
* How to use the Internet in ways you never thought of to promote yourself
* How to get the leaders in your field to endorse and help you
Self-promotion is one of the most difficult things a creative person must do. It is also the most critical. Open this book to any page and chances are you will find something that can help you overcome this hurdle and get the attention and recognition you and your talents deserve.
I would strongly recommend Sam’s "funny, yet factual" account to anyone who is serious about a country-music career, for while much of Wellington’s advice is common sense, his real-life examples of stars who have succeeded and failed and how and why they have done so is alone worth the price of the book.
While there have been similar books on this subject, there haven’t been any recent ones that address the topical issues that Sam does as he updates much of the traditional advice given in those industry bibles.
[Stacy's Music Row Report]
Like the Lower East Side of Manhattan was to punk rock and Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco was to 1960's psychedelia, the Lower Broad area of Nashville was a hothouse for Country sound. The Lower Broadway area of Nashville was and continues to be the proving ground for many of country music's greatest. From Hank Williams Sr. to Willie Nelson to BR5-49, the Lower Broad holds the stories of country music in its aging landscape. Part scrapbook, part bar tour, Nashville's Lower Broad: The Street That Music Made is a visual history capturing 90 gritty and revealing duotone photographs of the people and places that made Nashville's Lower Broadway the legendary country music birthplace and proving ground that continues to thrive today. With a foreword by Lucinda Williams and an introduction by music journalist David Eason, the photography of Bill Rouda brings to life the late nights, the cheap drinks, the isolated evenings where music, thoughts, and the company of strangers collide. Nashville's Lower Broad is a story longing to be told and Bill Rouda's photography does just that.
The Record Industry is Terminally Ill.
The record industry as we know it is dying. But the music industry is healthier and more vibrant than ever, with limitless possibilities for change and growth due to the Internet and the digitization of music.
The Future of Music will show you cool new ways to find music and connect with your favorite artists. Discover the top-10 truths about the music business of the future and how you can benefit from the explosion in digital music, today and tomorrow.
The Future of Music punches gaping holes through the foundation of a record industry that refuses to adapt.
* The best-selling CD of 2004 is blank and recordable.
* Blink-182's best-selling single of all time was "launched" on EA's Madden 2004 video game.
* File-sharing can be the savior of the music industry.
* The artists are the brands, and entertainment is the main attraction.
* Radio is no longer the primary way that people discover new music.
* The record business is NOT the record business.
In its First Edition, 6 Steps to Songwriting Success provided novices hoping to pitch their songs to artists other than themselves an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to mastering those elements consistently found in hit songs. Incorporating inspiring anecdotes from the author’s own success story and instructive quotes from music industry professionals, as well as 30 effective exercises for practicing, honing, and expanding one’s songwriting skills and helpful checklists for objectively accessing one’s strengths and weaknesses, the book offered a concise analysis of the six steps essential for songwriting success.
Updated, substantially revised, and expanded, the Second Edition increases the book’s relevance for performing songwriters writing primarily for themselves or their bands. The revision reflects industry changes since the First Edition, such as the advent of MP3s, the increase in music sampling, and the fact that CDs have replaced cassettes as the industry standard for presenting material. Fifteen new or significantly revised exercises are also included, as are new quotes from industry professionals. Finally, the Appendix has been completely updated to present the most comprehensive and up-to-date listing of songwriter resources available.
A songwriters' version of Natalie Goldberg's classic, million-selling, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within - a book that virtually every serious student of creative writing reads - Blume's new offering is an inspirational book of insights and lessons meant to speak to songwriters, singers, and musicians. It provides an uncensored, behind-the-scenes look at the author's personal experience as a struggling, and then successful songwriter, and thereby offers comfort and hope, as well as valuable tools to other songwriters, whether they are just beginning, or well into their journey.
Get more than your foot in the door! Have you ever dreamed of producing or engineering the next Top 10 hit or working your way up from mail room to executive suite at a record label? Stop dreaming and start reading. This book offers a detailed guide that will educate and empower the serious music and recording industry job seeker.
Author Keith Hatschek is an industry insider with more than 25 years experience as a musician, studio owner, and marketing consultant. He shares tips and secrets to help you successfully position yourself to get today's best music and recording industry jobs.
Inside you'll find:
* The big picture on career opportunities in music and recording
* Details on booming job prospects in new media including gaming and Internet audio
* Workshops that will help you assess and develop your own personalized career path
* A resource directory of key publications and industry trade organizations
* Interviews with top pros who discuss how they got their start, plus what skills today's leading job candidates must possess
* Tips on developing expert networking skills
* A step-by-step guide to developing a first-rate resume
The music business - like every other business - is based on personal relationships. Who you know and who knows you is equally (or even more) important as what you know. This book is the blueprint for developing the people skills necessary to achieve success. Helpful for both the pro and the novice, it is a detailed guide to creating a career game plan, filled with advice from artists, writers and execs who have already established themselves as major players. Author Dan Kimpel's invaluable insights are vividly documented here in a high-energy, highly readable fashion.
Create professional quality music in your home studio.
With the explosion of project studio gear available to the home musician, it is easier than ever to create professional-quality music at home. An important resource for developing the skills you need to create top-notch musical recordings, this book will show you how to produce great music in your home studio, no matter what recording tools you use.
Learn about:
* How to set up your home studio
* MIDI production techniques
* Editing techniques and tips
* Mixing and mastering techniques from the pros
With a complete explanation of the entire production process, you'll find everything you need for your professional home studio.
Build the perfect digital studio, no matter what your budget. Creating professional-quality digital recordings does not require buying the most expensive equipment. It does require buying the right equipment and knowing how to use it effectively. Recording in the Digital World provides professional advice and recommendations on studio gear, software, and the latest technologies.
Learn to create, edit, and master digital recordings like a pro with the practical tips and extensive suggestions featured in this guide. Experienced recording engineers share their invaluable expertise on microphone, mixing, and mastering techniques that can be applied in any studio, along with in-depth technical specifications.
A complete overview of all digital recording options, including:
* A guide to what to buy and how to use it
* Practical advice for developing digital studios at three different price levels, with budgets from $1,000 to $30,000
* Simple-language explanations of digital-world terminology and concepts
* Descriptions and estimated costs for the elements of today's studios, including instruments, microphones, mixers, recording media, computers, software, and more
* Objective information and experts' professional preferences on gear and recording techniques
This is the most comprehensive guide available for professional musicians, music educators, and music hobbyists who want to explore the world of digital recording. The wealth of information provided will help you select the appropriate equipment and software for your studio and assist you in making the best possible digital recordings.
This new edition covers download and streaming royalties; ringtone/cell phone and video game licenses and royalties; 2004 and 2005 mechanical royalty rates; ASCAP and BMI payments and rates; artist, musician and vocalist sound recording performance royalties; new recording artist contract clauses; webcasting rates and royalties; and actual film, television and advertising synchronization licenses.
This comprehensive guide to the many areas where songwriters, music publishers and recording artists make money is co-authored by ASCAP Executive Vice President and Director of Membership, Todd Brabec and Chrysalis Music Vice President of Business Affairs, Jeff Brabec and includes chapters on music publishing, copyright, recording contracts, motion picture and TV contracts and royalties, advertising commercials, performing rights, foreign country royalties, Broadway and off-Broadway theatre, lawyers, managers and agents, sampling of records and songs, the Internet, joint ventures, tips on breaking into the business and "How to value your copyrights if you are buying or selling them."
If you are an independent musician, producer, studio owner, or label, you should own this book! Written by Peter Spellman, Director of the Career Development Center at Berklee College of Music, this guide will teach you everything you need to know to become a success in the music business.
Filled with empowering resources and tips for self-managed musicians including:
* How to write a business plan, create press kits, sharpen your business chops
* Using the Internet to promote your music
* How to customize your demos for maximum exposure
* Secrets to getting your music played on the radio
* 12 things you can do to get the most out of every gig
* The most comprehensive musician's resource list on the planet, updated continually online!
Simply put: This is the bible of music licensing. It's not as cheap as the bible and you don't have a prayer of finding it much cheaper than the used versions that someone foolishly gives up on Amazon, but regardless of the price, it's worth every penny. If you want to truly understand the mechanics, logistics, and legalities of music licensing, learn it from the authority who was sorting out licensing issues concerning the internet and digital distribution over 10 years ago - before it became a "hot" topic.
Gian Fiero, Los Angeles, CA.
Successful songwriters know that to really make it in today's music business, you have to get your music published. Eric Beall, Vice President, Creative at Sony/ATV Music, helps songwriters traverse the intricate maze, pitfalls, and obstacles surrounding music publishing in MAKING MUSIC MAKE MONEY: An Insider's Guide to Becoming Your Own Music Publisher.
"First, most songwriters need to realize that they already have a music publisher: themselves," writes Beall. "The problem is that most writers either don't realize that they are already music publishers, or don't understand how to effectively act as their own publisher."
MAKING MUSIC MAKE MONEY will empower songwriters to take charge of their own careers. It provides an insider's view of the music publishing business, and offers some practical and up-to-the-minute tips to help writers make a living doing what they do best: writing songs.
Beall covers everything you need to know to get published, including:
* The role of the music publisher
* Understanding the copyright: how to get one, use one, and make money from one
* Building a business plan and setting up shop
* Identifying which songs to sell, who to sell them to, and then how to ensure that you get paid
* Protecting yourself from copyright infringement
MAKING MUSIC MAKE MONEY: An Insider's Guide to Becoming Your Own Music Publisher will educate songwriters, as well as aspiring music business entrepreneurs, in the basics of becoming an effective independent music publisher.
An entertainment lawyer whose clients include many from the top of the music charts, Passman has written a book that sets out to give musicians, performers, and songwriters the tools to hire advisers, market their careers, protect their creative works, and generally cope with a complex industry in a state of flux. Passman explains boilerplate language, the complexities of royalties and advances, and label and distribution deals; a section on record deals begins with an overview of the business and works through all the steps. The "Adventures in Cyberspace" chapter is a helpful summary of the way CD-ROMs and the Internet are affecting the business. Included here is information on recent legislation and a look at how digitizing music delivery will continue to change things. Packed with illustrations, sample calculations, and definitions, All You Need To Know is humorous and accessible enough for those who just want to understand the business while being detailed and documented enough for those who make a living from it.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Now anyone can write and play their own songs on the guitar - with no prior training! This inspirational handbook teaches readers how to play guitar, while providing a solid foundation in songwriting techniques, using well-known songs as examples, easy-to-follow text, and graphics that explain and demonstrate lyrics, melody, harmony and rhythm. This book's straightforward style will have even those who've never played a guitar or written a song making music with ease.
Using visual examples of songwriting techniques, this book teaches guitarists to write better songs. The CD demonstrates how the examples sound, and it includes dozens of chord progressions, evolving melodies and structures, and harmony effects, making the book especially useful to those who don't read music. The book starts with basic chords, describes how to write a song with simple elements, then gradually develops more complex structures. By seeing and hearing step-by-step examples of the song craft, the reader can easily learn the secrets of songwriting.
This book identifies 30 distinct guitar riff types, and goes on to illustrate them with 150 inspired examples, examining how they have been developed and used by great rock musicians from Cream and The Beatles, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, Limp Bizkit, The Strokes and The White Stripes. The first half of the book analyzes classic rock riffs and reveals the stories behind their creation, supported by illustrations and a 30-track CD of audio examples. The second section shows how to construct great riffs. Readers learn how to shape a melody, integrate a guitar riff with the rest of a song, enhance it with effects, and work with intervals and scales. Includes an exclusive interview with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.
Discover songwriting techniques from the hit makers!
Melody is a subject too often neglected in the teaching of music. This unique resource gives melody that attention it deserves, and proves that melody writing is a skill that can be learned.
Through proven tool and techniques, you will learn to write interesting melodies, how melodic rhythm influences rhyme, what makes harmony progress, and the many dynamic relationships between melody and harmony.
This clear and comprehensive approach to songwriting unlocks the secrets of popular songs, revealing what really makes them work. Examples of great songs by such notable songwriters as Lennon and McCartney, Diane Warren, Robert Palmer, and more, provide a close-up illustration of the songwriting techniques employed by these masters of the industry.
This is the book used in Songwriting classes at Berklee College of Music. The exercises provided make it a wonderful self-teaching manual and a great addition to any general theory course of any level. Use the tools presented in this book to help fine-tune your craft and start writing hits!
Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Better Lyrics
Pat Pattison, a veteran songwriter, has taught many of Berklee College of Music's best and brightest how to write truly great lyrics.
This book will help you handle your lyric structures more effectively. Showing you how to take control of your lyrics by honing your creative process, this essential guidebook reveals the secrets of how to become a naturally great lyricist. By studying examples of famous songs, you will learn to integrate the techniques of the pros into your own lyric-writing craft.
The exercises and tools in this book will help you eliminate some trial and error and start writing better lyrics more quickly and efficiently.
Features:
* Write more interesting lyrics and songs
* Integrate spontaneous soloing as part of your expressive vocabulary
* Strategically manage the timing and placement of your most important ideas
* Enjoy more creative possibilities than you've experienced before.
Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming and Better Lyrics
This book has a very specific purpose: to help you find better rhymes and use them more effectively. Rhyme is one of the most crucial areas of lyric writing, and this guide will provide you with all the technical information
necessary to develop your skills completely. Make rhyme work for you and your lyric writing will greatly improve.
If you have written lyrics before, even at a professional level, you can still gain greater control and understanding of your craft with the exercises and worksheets included in this book. Hone your writing technique and skill with this practical and fun approach to the art of lyric writing. Start writing better than ever before!
Learn how harmony can help you express your songwriting ideas—using chords and chord structures the way that professional songwriters do.
The Songwriter's Workshop series is a new approach to writing hit songs designed for songwriters at all levels, from beginners to professional songwriters who are looking for new ideas to spice up their work. Each book in the series presents a set of tools for writing songs, with practical practice exercises.
The Songwriter's Workshop: Harmony teaches the fundamental harmony techniques used in today's hit songs, together with easy-to-follow exercises so you can immediately apply these tools to your own songs. Quit wrestling with writer's block, and learn to make the songwriting process easy, fun, and intuitive.
Learn how to:
* Incorporate "power progressions"—the most common and effective chord progressions, which have been used in countless hits, into your own songs
* Explore colors of chords and keys, so that you can use them to express the emotion of the lyrics
* Understand the states of being harmonically "home" and "away from home," and use them to maximize your songs' emotional impact
* Adapt and embellish chords and progressions to enrich your palette of colors
* Vary your harmonies and progressions to generate many new creative possibilities
* Practice the musical applications of harmonic constructs such as cadences and modulations
* Write memorable choruses and verses that work together as complete songs
The included play-along CD provides a perfect accompaniment to help you practice your songs.
The craft of lyric writing book by Sheila Davis. This book answers hundreds of fundamental questions about songwriting to help you write recordable lyrics that can catch the music industry's attention.
Reviewer: Dottie Burman (New York, New York) -
If you want THE book on lyric writing, this is it! Sheila Davis's highly readable work has inspired beginning as well as experienced writers. I should know! Thanks to Sheila, my CD of 20 of my original songs, I'M IN LOVE WITH MY COMPUTER, was named "One of the Best Cabaret CDs of `98" by InTheatre Magazine. Sheila is not only a published songwriter, but also a supportive workshop teacher. Her book reflects her teaching style: highly accessible but thought-provoking at the same time. She gives examples for every point she makes.Reading the book is the next best thing to working in person with her, which I've had the privilege of doing. I also highly recommend her workbook "Successful Lyric Writing,"particularly helpful to the lyricist starting out, and "The Songwriter's Ideabook" which is wonderful for any songwriter looking for a creative boost!
Beginning songwriters as well as experienced ones wishing to enhance their ability to compose tuneful melodies can turn to Weissman's primer. He first defines a melody as "the single line of the structure that you can hum or whistle" and discusses generally how to read and write musical notation before delving into the melody-generating process. One interesting note: "The book is designed to be equally user-friendly for guitarists or keyboard players." Whether one is attempting to write ad jingles or pop tunes, Weissman's guide demonstrates the steps to follow in devising the melody and melding it with the lyrics. Denise Perry Donavin
The updated version of this previously published book will tell you all you need to know about becoming the next Lennon and McCartney. You'll learn exactly what to expect when working with another songwriter and how to make your co-writing arrangement work. Carter offers an insightful look at how to find a partner, sharing success and
rejection, where to get ideas, and much more.
Eighty-eight ways to spot what’s wrong with a song - along with expert instruction on how to fix it! Songwriters Pat and Pete Luboff cover it all, pointing out pitfalls and supplying solutions every measure of the way.
Many of the chapter titles are word-plays on song titles. "I Did It Their Way," is sub-titled "Don't write to impress or please others, write from your own passion," and "To Sing the Unsingable Word" warns "Beware of tongue-twisting word combinations and hard consonants on long notes." Music business topics are covered, too, in chapters such as "No Sir, That's My Baby," advising "Don't be reluctant to let go of a song because you're saving it for your artist deal " and "Pennies from Heaven," instructing "Don't think your royalties will automatically come to you."
144 pages. 8-1/2 x 11.
With candor and passion, 15 of the nation’s most talented tunesmiths offer personal accounts of how they create their works, what their songs mean to them, and how they keep their creativity flowing. This entertaining collection on one-on-one interviews provides inspiration and advice for songwriters and music afficionados. .
"The Soul Of A Writer" is not only thought-provoking, it delivers inspiration in the face of adversity. To begin the journey, is to start with the soul, and that is exactly what these authors accomplished. There are no right or wrong answers, just the true and human insights from those who write the songs. How powerful is the human voice and how ever-present is the writer who gives life to it! Truly a world of revelations , habits, and human ancedotes fill the pages of this book. It is a rare find for those looking to identify their thoughts and feelings with other songwriters. Whether you are a writer in full blown success or a writer still in search of that "first:" hit, I highly recommend settling down in your most comfortable spot and jumping right in. It may be remarkable what you discover in the "soul of a writer."
This behind-the-scenes look at the Nashville music industry reveals inside tips on how to break through the system and get heard. The new edition of this popular guide includes the latest strategies for Internet marketing, best techniques for pitching songs and artist packages, new interviews with BMI Songwriter of the Year Jeff Steele and top music publishers, and much more. Readers will learn how to get songs heard in Music City, U.S.A; how to find the decision makers in the industry; and exactly what they’re looking for in the next star. Included are firsthand accounts by city residents offering tips for planning a first trip to Nashville, insight on what lies ahead for the Nashville music market, and how to break into the Nashville music scene. A unique, one-week itinerary is packed with great ideas about how to get the most out of a trip to Nashville. In-depth and completely updated information is included on top music publishers, record producers, record companies, hot recording studios, demo services, publicists, artist managers, and even legal services available in or around the city. A helpful resource section provides guidelines for setting up an artist showcase, and complete contact information for everything from where to eat, where to stay, and where to have fun.
Discover the secrets of successful songwriting with this essential guide! Cofounder of the Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase John Braheny teaches you the craft of songwriting while going behind the scenes of the music business to reveal insider secrets that will make your work stand out. Dozens of exercises, examples and anecdotes from songwriters such as Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, TLC, Lenny Kravitz and Paul McCartney will you show you how to: develop a songwriter's consciousness; overcome barriers in the creative process; write in all musical styles, and for film and TV; and skillfully manage the business of demos and contracts. This updated edition also covers online opportunities for songwriters."A practical street-level look at today's world of songwriting ... Read and learn."- Diane Warren, six-time ASCAP Songwriter of the Year with more than 50 Top 10 hits
Music Publishing: A Songwriter's Guide- revised 2nd edition contains everything a songwriter needs to know about the publishing industry. It has been revised to contain information about new media such as CD-ROM, the internet and sampling.
Music Publishing: A Songwriter's Guide, Revised book by Randy Poe.
"If I had only know then what I know now, I wouldn't have signed that first contract without considering all of my options." --Every songwriter that ever lived.Don't let this happen to you. When it comes time for you to sign a publishing contract, you want to be absolutely certain that you're getting the best possible deal for you and your song. And this book will show you how. Here, Randy Poe takes the mystery out of music publishing, explaining what it's all about and what it means to you as a songwriter. You'll learn how songwriters and music publishers earn performance royalties, mechanical royalties, synchronization royalties, and print royalties in the United States and abroad. And you'll learn what your publishing options are -- from a single song contract to a full-time position as a staff writer to a self-publishing operation. By the time you finish this book, you'll be able to speak "music business" with the best of them -- an enviable position for any songwriter. And most important, you'll never make an uninformed decision about publishing your songs that you'll later regret.
His book, "How To Pitch and Promote Your Songs", was first published by Writer’s Digest in 1988, and a revised edition published by Allworth Press currently available through Amazon.com and other book sellers. This book is one way that Fred Koller mentors capable young songwriters and guides them to an entry point into the Nashville writers' community. He has also taught song writing classes and given seminars on publishing at many festivals and colleges.
Walter Carter, songwriter and author of The Songwriter’s Guide to Collaboration
“...comes complete with an encouraging pat on the back and a motivational kick in the butt.”
Lee Wilson, attorney and author of Making It in the Music Business
"Ensure that your songs will always produce what every songwriter dreams of—royalty checks. Buy this book and read it!”
From Publishers Weekly
The only artist to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration, Webb has written many of the most memorable songs performed by the Fifth Dimension ("Up, Up and Away"), Donna Summer ("MacArthur Park") and Amy Grant ("If These Walls Could Speak"), among others. Here he seeks to impart the tools of the trade to songwriters "who may be attempting the delicate transition from amateur to professional." Covering technical matters from basic chord theory and rhyme schemes to the protocol of pitching songs, Webb draws on a trove of personal anecdotes from a career spanning more than two decades. In addition to salient comments on today's music scene, Webb cites numerous examples from the past and includes sections on writing for the stage and film. Of greatest value, perhaps, are the exercises suggested for developing song ideas, which will help anyone stumbling through a period of writer's block. While Webb's fans will revel in the behind-the-scenes details of his career and a candid view of his artistic process, others may wish that the asides, finger pointing (at arrogant co-writers) and Webb's own pet peeves (e.g., no-talent spouses who insist on songwriting credits on their partner's records) had been left out. And Webb's nuts-and-bolts approach somehow undercuts every songwriter's need for that spark of absolute inspiration. For those interested in the latter, Songwriters on Songwriting: The Expanded Version (Da Capo, 1997), a collection of interviews between editor Paul Zollo and a variety of songwriters, including Webb, is the ticket.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"Our house is a very, very, very fine house. With two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard..." In 1970, "Our House" was recorded and released by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and immediately became a sentimental favorite for millions of fans. Its honest, romantic, homespun lyrics expressed a sentiment felt by all of us. To this day, the song remains a classic and is one whose melody and lyrics can be sung and repeated by the millions of people whose lives it touched. Songs like these and many others have created landmark moments in all of our lives, marking and celebrating key events, past and better times, current relationships, and hopes for the future. Now, Manuscript Originals has compiles the stories behind a collection of 25 of the world's most celebrated songs in Off The Record, a stunning book and CD collection that will commemorate the impact these classic songs have had in our contemporary world. Original handwritten images of the lyrics from these classic songs rendered by their original authors and accompanied by the songwriter's own artwork will be displayed in each of the book's 25 chapters. In addition, readers will find historical, social and "off the cuff" personal insights about these fascinating people and the music they produced. Illuminating photographs - some from the writer's or performer's personal archive that have never been seen before - will also document the journey of each artist's individual songwriting path. While the names of some of the songwriters included in Off the Record are better known to the general public than others, the songs these artists are associated with are some of the most famous titles in the world. Among the songwriters included are Graham Nash, David Crosby, Grace Slick, Ben E. King, Jimmie Davis ("You Are My Sunshine"), John Lee Hooker, Waylon Jennings, Randy Bachman, Peter Yarrow, and many, many more. The CDs enclosed in Off The Record include individual audio interviews from selected writers about their famous song's origin and the songwriter's perspectives on the creative process. A musical rendition of the song and/or its famous melody will also be represented. All told, Off the Record presents a remarkable and unique look into the world of songwriters and their classic songs. It gives the general consumer the ability to personally connect with some of the most beloved music of our times.
In response to increasing convergence of technologies in the entertainment industries, this thoroughly updated and revised fourth edition in also carefully reorganized and conveniently reformatted. Moreover, this new easy to read single-column format makes the volume a more accessible resource for lawyers, students, and industry professionals. The fourth edition is divided into two parts--one dealing with general principles and the other dealing with specific entertainment and related industries--and over fifty new cases have been added. The case material covers recent changes in the entertainment business--among them innovations, consolidations, copyright issues, and globalization--and each is analyzed in detail. FREE semi-annual supplements are available. FOR THE FIRST TIME THESE SUPPLEMENTS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE!!
Bringing a little bit of Nashville to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Monthly Meetings.
" The Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) consists of a body of creative minds, including songwriters from all genres of music, professional and amateur, who are committed to protecting the rights of songwriters."
We're a non-profit organization created to help faith-based songwriters throughout the state get their music heard so it can bless the Kingdom of God. Each monthly meeting will include fellowship among writers, song-sharing, and an educational section designed to build-up each member.
Based in Nashville, NSAI represents all musical genres and includes songwriters from across the United States and overseas. NSAI provides a haven for both proven and undiscovered writers -- to get a cup of coffee, to make a phone call or just to receive a word of advice or consolation. To quote NSAI’s motto: "IT ALL BEGINS WITH A SONG" -- and, sometimes, it all begins over lunch.
Fort Worth Songwriters Association Incorporated is a non-profit organization, formed exclusively for charitable, literary and educational purposes as defined in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The purposes of the Association include providing, educating, and promoting public awareness and interest in songwriting and the creation of music as an art form.
Monthly meetings which feature guest speakers from all fields of the music industry and critique sessions to give honest, creative, and helpful advice on improving writing style and technique. Showcases designed to promote, not only our songwriters as writers, but performers as well which feature artists performing original songs from all musical styles and cultural backgrounds. Periodically other various functions are sponsored or co-sponsored by DSA. Seminars and workshops throughout the year which feature faculty from major educational institutions, respected industry businesses, and aware winning songwriters. Songwriter Notes, a newsletter which features local, national, and international information valuable to songwriters. Song contests which provide an opportunity to award prizes and scholarships to songwriters. Social interaction and networking with other arts related organizations and industry professionals. Many of these activities have been sponsored or co-sponsored by local and national music industry businesses.
Tuesday nights are Song Doctor nights!!!!! We start at 6:30. Bring a dozen or so copies of your new song, old song, just about to be recorded song, or unfinished song with you and get some feed back from folks that are here for the same reason you are.......to write better songs. It is a great way to make yourself get out of the box. For those of you that perform it gives you a chance to sing in the presence of others you don't know and it sharpens your skills....in a nice safe place. If you don't want to play your song you can bring a CD with you or just sing without an instrument. You will hear songs that you would never have thought about writing for any number of reasons. We are our greatest resource, and no one understands us like we understand each other. Show up and give this a try. You're gonna love it. You will be thinking about writing songs all the way home. Maybe you will write one on the way home. It really is a creative gathering. It's free...just takes a little deciding you want your songs to get better. You have to be present to win!! BTW I know some of you are thinking your songs are perfect. Come anyway. : ) You could help others. If you would like to come and watch this little happening, and not participate to see what's up we are good with that. It is a great place to meet co-writers and singers or instrumentalist that you might want to work with. We meet at the office at 3105 Manchaca.
Do you ever notice when you aren’t trying, pushing or beating down a door, and just using your pure intention to guide you, the right people, places and circumstances arrive to give to you just what you needed, and so much more?
Well, in a nutshell, that's how the New York Songwriter’s Circle Inc. came about.
The PorchBoard Bass is an amplified, analog low-end rhythm instrument that uses the natural technique of foot tapping to produce a player controlled bass beat with any style of music.
A legitimate real-time analog instrument, the PorchBoard is readily accepted in the live concert venue. The PorchBoard player controls the style, tempo and volume in accordance with their natural inclinations, allowing performers who interact with their audiences and other musicians to play with heartfelt intimacy and with a natural beat that many desire.
MusicPad Pro Plus
• Size: 13.3" x 9.9" x 1.8" (just over 4 lbs.)
• Easy-to-read, low glare, touch screen
• 12.1" TFT LCD back-lit, color display eliminates need for external music stand lighting
• Resolution: 1024 x 768
• 64MB Flash memory, 128MB RAM
• 64MB Flash memory module
• Video out
• Audio out
• AC power and rechargeable battery
• 2 USB ports (1 host, 1 device)
• Built-in jack for foot pedal
• Store your entire music library
• Download over 90,000 digital music scores already formatted for the MusicPad Pro Plus from www.freehandmusic.com
• Scan your music library into a computer and then convert
• Fully annotative with zoom in and zoom out feature while writing
• Add or erase rehearsal marks and notations
• Easy-to-read personal on screen color notes
• Extensive library of notation symbols
• Text annotation via a virtual keyboard
• Half-page turn option for look-ahead viewing in portrait mode
• Two-page display in landscape mode
• Remote easy page turning
• Audio Player for MIDI
• File browser and quick search
• Expanded play list capability
• 1-year limited warranty
The Songwriter’s Blueprint is truly a one-of-a-kind songwriting tool that
contains the secrets many great songwriters use when developing their hit songs!
This seven page document is printed on actual blueprint paper and comes
packaged in a blueprint tube.
Formatted similar to a flowchart or template, The Songwriter’s Blueprint comes
complete with pre-designed boxes for you to fill in with creative information as
each step calls for until completing the process of writing a song.
The steps include: creating a title, focusing the titles meaning, plotting your storyline,
outlining, brainstorming 12 unique categories, writing your first draft, improving it,
and completing your song with the checklist provided.
The Blueprint process helps you organize your creative thoughts, and focus them so
you can communicate yours songs message clearly and effectively just as you intended.
All in one space.
The MicroTrack is a rugged high-fidelity mobile 2-channel digital recorder that records WAV and MP3 files to CompactFlash or microdrives—perfect for everything from professional field recording to corporate meetings, training, education and worship. Record via balanced line inputs or built-in high-fidelity microphone preamps complete with phantom power for studio-quality microphones. Connect MicroTrack to a PC or Mac via USB and simply drag and drop recordings to your computer for immediate editing or Web posting. Power derives from a lithium-ion battery, and the unit can recharge via the computer’s USB connection or USB power adapter. The MicroTrack combines quality beyond that of DAT recording with the convenience and cost-effectiveness of personal digital recorders for the ultimate solution in mobile recording.
SONAR Home Studio
SONAR Home Studio 6 gives you everything you need to turn your PC into a complete music production studio. Record live instruments and vocals and mix them with studio-quality audio effects. Edit audio, MIDI, and music notation. Build backing tracks or entire songs with hundreds of included instrument sounds and tempo-syncing loops. SONAR Home Studio 6 is the complete solution for creating and sharing your music.
Dallas/Fort Worth/Denton recording studios Fort Worth Sound specializes in recording and mixing music projects for bands, singers, songwriters, voiceover talent, etc from the DFW area and beyond. From demo to complete CD project, we can help you get the quality you need. And when the project is done, we can also help with CD/DVD duplication and replication. Need graphic design? We can help with that as well.
We have two Pro Tools studios. The main studio (Studio A) has a Pro Tools HD3 Accel system. This is where we do the majority of our recording and mastering projects, while our B Room has a Pro Tools Mix Plus system. Studio B is where we do additional mixing and audio editing, CD duplication, vinyl and cassette to CD transfers, and graphic design. We have a large mic collection, outboard mic pre's and high end outboard EQ, compression and limiting.
The design of our studio was inspired by the amazing work of the Russ Berger Design Group. Our main recording area has 14 foot ceilings, climate control (independent A.C. in each room), Floating Floors (to avoid low frequency rumble from the traffic of the city, etc.)
It took 3 years to complete the construction of Studio A. We think you will agree that Fort Worth Sound is one of the finest recording studios in the North Texas area.
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Open house is scheduled for January 6, 2008. Stay tuned to this site for address and other information..
The McClatchy Company is the third-largest newspaper company in the United States, a leading newspaper and internet publisher dedicated to the values of quality journalism, free expression and community service. Building on a 150-year legacy of independence, the company's newspapers and websites are steadfast defenders of First Amendment values and advocates for the communities they serve.
Each month, Fort Worth, Texas: The City's Magazine rewards more than 74,900 readers with stories about people, places and events in one of the most unique and livable cities in the southwest. The magazine began publishing in 1998 and features colorful stories combined with dynamic photography, illustrations and designs to create a high-quality publication that represents the city and interests of affluent, involved readers.
OUR PURPOSE . . .
. . . To create an enhanced visual environment for Fort Worth residents, to commemorate the City's rich cultural and ethnic diversity, to integrate the design work of artists into the development of the City's capital infrastructure improvements, and to promote tourism and economic vitality in the City through the artistic design of public spaces.
At the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, we celebrate our community’s diversity through the arts and showcase the talents of regional artists. Our 77,000 square foot facility offers performance, rehearsal, classroom, meeting and exhibition space for rent; an “arts incubator” designed as office space for arts groups; and special events space.
Designed for adults and children alike, the Center offers a place for the celebration and creation of ideas including: dance, theater, studio art, music, opera, and poetry.
Come express yourself at the Fort Worth Community Art Center.
Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. is a member driven not-for-profit corporation. Member leadership is the core of DFWI's effectiveness and the organization relies on member participation and dues funding.
Membership in Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. is open to any individual or business interested in the vitality of Downtown Fort Worth. Membership categories are listed below. For more membership benefit information, click the Member Benefit link in the About Us section to the left.
From the city of Fort Worth to the borders of Tarrant County and across North Texas, the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce is a key leader in the development and maintenance of our community’s economic health.
Chamber members receive direct benefits of visibility, business relationships, skill development, advocacy and leadership through their investment of dues and time.
This web site will be listing the major buildings in Downtown Fort Worth. Their names, addresses, the year they were built, and the architect who designed them will be listed. Also a description of each building will be included on separate pages. Downtown Fort Worth has become a model for downtown revitalization. In the 2000 Census, Fort Worth had a population of 534,694. In the July 2003 estimates, the population was 585,122 ranking 5th in Texas and 20th in the United States. The January 2006 estimates give the city a population of 661,850. Fort Worth has preserved many of its downtown buildings constructed between 1880 and 1930. Class "A" Downtown office occupancy rates are about 98%.
Located on 7th Street just west of downtown, the Mission Revival-style building dates to 1928, when it was built by department store chain Montgomery Ward to house its regional retail and mail-order operations. The facility was expanded and remodeled over the years before closing in 2001 after Montgomery Ward went out of business. In March 2000, a 40-year-old distribution center behind the original building was badly damaged by the tornado that swept through Fort Worth and Arlington. The property stood idle until 2003 when Dallas-based Weber & Co. and Kimco Realty purchased the site and launched the Montgomery Plaza development.
When completed, the 133,000-square-foot building will have 42 floor plans, designed by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Swaback Partners. The smaller units start at 807 square feet. All residents will have access to a rooftop amenities deck with a pool, garden and outdoor dining areas, as well as three levels of direct-access parking.
What can we possibly do to show our appreciation to those who have given so much to all of us?
Each day, the Peace Officers, Police and Fire Fighters of our community exemplify courage and commitment as they strive to assure a continuing safe environment for our City and its citizens. Usually we are unaware of the time and effort expended by these warriors in preventing crime or property damage. We sometimes take for granted the dedication and valor inherent in these individuals until an unfortunate event occurs, becomes newsworthy, and captures our attention. Yet, each is willing to face danger on a daily basis in order for us to enjoy a peaceful lifestyle. They risk their safety for our safety.
While there is a national memorial and several state and city memorials that have risen in years past to pay tribute to the lives of police officers and fire fighters who have fallen in the line of duty, Fort Worth has been unintentionally remiss in fulfilling its mission of expressing, in perpetuity, its appreciation and memory of our fallen heroes. The time has come to formally acknowledge and maintain this long overdue recognition in the creation of the Fort Worth Police and Fire Fighters Memorial.
A memorial is much more than an impersonal monument. Behind each name on every memorial there is a story...a story written in courage and lived through sacrifice...a tale of heroism and service. Our site in Trinity Park will be a living memorial and a constant reminder of our dependence upon and appreciation of those who continue to sacrifice their own welfare in favor of ours.
The Fort Worth Police and Fire Fighters Memorial Committee endeavors to build a memorial that will speak to our community about our fallen heroes, those "who gave much more than their part."
We owe them no less...they gave us so much more.
Welcome to Fort Worth, the 18th-largest city in the United States and one of “America’s Most Livable Communities.” Today, Fort Worth, Texas is a thriving center of culture and commerce. Visitors are often surprised by everything Fort Worth has to offer: the Historic Stockyards, remarkable museums, a dazzling downtown area, Texas Motor Speedway, spectacular annual events and a lot more.
3311 Hamilton Ave Fort Worth, Texas 76107 Phone: (817) 321-9700 Fax: (817) 335-9575 The Weekly provides a vibrant alternative to the city’s often-timid daily, with award-winning and irreverent reporters who keep readers well informed and the powers-that-be worried.
The Fort Worth Business Press went to print the first time in 1988, and in the years since, it has served as THE guide and tool in which to stay informed of local business news, events and trends.
The Trinity River is a major part of Fort Worth's rich and colorful history. In 1849, an army outpost was established on the banks of the river at the confluence of the West Fork and the Clear Fork, and that convergence anchors our downtown today.
The "Master Plan" for the Trinity River is a concept literally decades in the making. Encouraged by community volunteers in the 1980s, developed by urban designers and specialty consultants in the 1990s, and adopted by City Council in 2003, the Trinity River Vision Master Plan encompasses 88 miles of the Trinity River and its greenbelts and tributaries throughout the Fort Worth area. The "vision" has always been to advocate for this natural resource, keeping the river beautiful, accessible, enjoyable, and productive and to make sure it remains a valuable asset for the entire community.
In 1963 the Arts Council was formed to provide funding and leadership to stimulate and assure the advancement of the arts throughout our community. Today’s Arts Council is a dynamic, multi-faceted, arts agency serving artists, arts organizations and the community with programs that help shape the arts and that have a significant impact on the quality of life in Fort Worth.
Arts Council programs address three main areas: funding local arts organizations through a competitive grants program; enhancing the visual environment of the city through commissioning works of public art; and providing affordable and accessible venues for artists and arts organizations, through the management of the Fort Worth Community Arts Center. The Arts Council has positioned itself as a leader in the Arts Community by both identifying and addressing the needs of the arts community and of the community at large.
Arts Council grants support Fort Worth non-profit arts organizations in four areas: General Operating Support; Neighborhood Arts Programs that bring the arts to underserved areas of our community; Audience Development efforts that target culturally specific populations and younger audiences; and Mini Grants which focus on professional development for organizations with budget of less than $750,000. Funding for Arts Council grants comes from individuals, corporate and foundation donors, as well as the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County and Texas Commission on the Arts.
The dream was brought to life again during the fall of 1957 by the late James H. Snowden, Jr. an oil man and president of the Fort Worth Opera Association, and Melvin O. Dacus, the then-manager of the Fort Worth Opera Association. These two gentlemen proposed to the Fort Worth City Council the formation of a non-profit corporation to build and operate a theatre complex primarily focused on the production of Broadway musicals. The cost would be $500,000. The project was approved by the Fort Worth City Council on January 14, 1958.
Construction began two months later, on March 13th. A record-breaking 114 days later, the construction of Casa Mañana Theatre was complete. The new Casa Mañana Theatre was a magnificent fully-enclosed, air-conditioned, aluminum-domed theatre. The house seated 1,805 patrons and introduced audiences to "theatre-in-the-round," a stage configuration that featured a round stage in the center of the theatre, with audiences in seated sections that completely surround the stage. With no backstage area, the actors and stagehands would use the surrounding concourse and aisles to move set pieces, props and other materials on and off-stage. Although this unique feature would limit the size of the productions on-stage, the action was constantly moving from one scene to the next. And with the last row only 36 feet from the edge of the stage, patrons fell in love with the intimate feeling of being in the audience at Casa Mañana Theatre.
The mission of the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall is to serve as a permanent home to major performing arts organizations of Fort Worth and as a premiere venue for other attractions so as to enhance the range, quality, and accessibility of cultural fare available to the public; to promulgate arts education; and to contribute to the cultural life of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and the region.
The Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall complex is the crown jewel of a city which boasts the nation's third largest cultural district. It is also an important symbol of one of the most successful downtown revitalization efforts in the country.
Built entirely with private funds, Bass Performance Hall is permanent home to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Worth Opera, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Cliburn Concerts. It also hosts special productions of Casa Mañana Musicals, and presents Performing Arts Fort Worth's "Hall Series", a popular array of eclectic entertainment.
The 2,056-seat multipurpose Hall, designed by David M.Schwarz/Architectural Services, Inc. with acoustics by Jaffee, Holden, Acoustics, Inc., is characteristic of the classic European opera house form. An 80-foot diameter Great Dome, artfully painted by Scott and Stuart Gentling, tops the Founders Concert Theater. Two 48-foot tall angels sculpted by Marton Varo from Texas limestone grace the Grand Facade. Since the Hall opened in May 1998, the angels have become preeminent cultural icons of the entire Dallas / Fort Worth metropolitan area. The Hall itself is renowned for its superb acoustics, exceptional sight lines and ambience on level with the great halls of the world.
In 2001, the adjacent Maddox-Muse Center officially opened; and with it, the new Van Cliburn Recital Hall and the McDavid Studio. Also housed within Maddox-Muse Center are offices for Performing Arts Fort Worth, the non-profit organization that oversees management of the Hall, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
Bass Performance Hall is located on full city block encompassed by Commerce, Calhoun, 4th and 5th Streets in the historic Sundance Square district of downtown Fort Worth.
Lone Star Film Society, Fort Worth, Texas, exists to preserve and present the art of the moving image and examine its influence on world culture. LSFS is a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation, dedicated to cultivate an appreciation of the Visual Arts; engender visual literacy, support community efforts regarding the film; and to build recognition for Fort Worth as an International Film Festival destination.
Fundraiser to preserve and beautify the Camp Bowie district; and to educate and expose public to cultural district’s historical architecture and eclectic variety of museums, shops and restaurants, as well as, significant points of interest.
Live from the charming Eurotazza Coffeehouse on the west side of the city, Shivaun Palmer sits down for a chat with standouts from the world of politics, business, the performing arts, education and non profits as well as coffee tawk with emerging entrepreneurs and outstanding youth. Whether the focus is on a little gas find like the Barnett Shale, a world-class riverfront development, an exploding job market or family fun in the Historic Stockyards District, if it is happening in Cowtown, you'll hear it on “Everything Fort Worth.” Join the Coffee Snob nation…… y
"Spring Awakening" Tony Award Winning Musical 2007
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The City of New York is a city in the southern end of the state of New York and the most populous city in the United States of America. New York City is a global economic center, with its business, finance, trading, law, and media organizations having worldwide influence. New York is an important cultural center, with many museums, galleries, and performance venues. As the home of the United Nations, the city is a hub for international diplomacy.
New York City comprises five boroughs, (each of which are coterminous with a county): The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. With over 8.2 million residents within an area of 322 square miles (830 km²), New York City is the most densely populated major city in North America.[3] The New York metropolitan area, with a population of 18.8 million, ranks among the largest urban areas in the world.[4]
The city has many neighborhoods and landmarks known around the world. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wall Street, in Lower Manhattan, has been a dominant global financial center since World War II and is home to the New York Stock Exchange. The city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building and the former twin towers of the World Trade Center. The city is the birthplace of many American cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art, abstract expressionism in painting, and hip hop[5] along with the Tin Pan Alley in music. In 2005, nearly 170 languages were spoken in the city and 36 percent of its population was foreign born.[
The Brill Building, located at 1619 Broadway in Manhattan, was home to the publishing firm of Aldon Music. Aldon Music, formed by Don Kirshner and Al Nevins, was dedicated to creating songs focused on the teenager, but with the musical sophistication and professionalism of Tin Pan Alley.
Songwriting teams from the Brill Building were the most prolific of the rock & roll era. Teams such as Goffin and King, Greenfield and Sedaka, and Mann and Weil focused songs on teenage experiences with lyrics that were believable, romantic and melodramatic, while the music was a simple melodic voice.
As the teen market faded in 1965, the Brill Building songwriters began looking for more meaningful ways of songwriting and began to feel their demos were often better than those produced by the studio artists the record labels provided. Historically, there was very deep divide between the songwriter and the recording artist, and it was the writers from the Brill Building who first bridged that divide, becoming the first singer-songwriters.
TIME SQUARE NEW YORK CITY Formed by the intersection of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42d Street, this famous square was named for the building there that formerly belonged to the New York Times. The building, located in the center of the square, is still famous for its band of lights that transmits up-to-the-minute news. Times Square and the adjacent area form one of the most concentrated entertainment districts in the nation, featuring legitimate theaters, motion picture houses, shops, newsstands, bars, and restaurants.
When the New York Times erected a new building on 43rd Street in 1904, the neighborhood took on the name "Times Square." Just a few short years before, Longacre Square as it was then known, was considered a dangerous place where only those of ill repute would venture.
A decade later, theater, vaudeville and cabaret migrated to the streets nearby, attracting much tourism by the 1920s. But the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression led to a sharp decline in theater attendance. Businesses needing something to draw people into the area, the notorious period of Times Square was born. It was mainly during the 60's and 70's that live nude shows, erotic bookstores, and x-rated movies occupied the area. By 1975 Times Square was being described as a 'sinkhole' by a daily New York newspaper. The crime rate sky rocketed causing Times Square to be the most dangerous place in the city, keeping tourists away.
In the early 1980s, the city and business began to band together to make major efforts to restore the neighborhood to its former, more wholesome, reputation.
By the late 1990's Times Square was restored to its intended glory. It is uniquely the only zone in the New York City where tenants are required to display bright signs. With 27,000 residents and an estimated 26 million annual visitors each year, Times Square has changed drastically since it's inauguration 100 years ago.
THE TIME's design eschews convention. It is a treasure trove of delightful surprises, from hallway runners adorned with clocks to guest rooms dominated by one of three primary colors (red, blue and yellow), candy in-room coordinated to its color, and a color-inspired scent. As Tihany describes it, "The idea at THE TIME is to truly experience a color: see it, feel it, taste it, smell it and live it." If guests need further inspiration, they will find a postcard above the desk-referencing author Alexander Theroux on the essence of the room's color.
Amenities reflect the needs of sophisticated travelers. Dual line telephones, high speed internet access, private voicemail, 18-hour room service, iron / board, in-room safe, Bose Wave Radio, bathrobe, Molton Brown toiletries.
Design and Concept
Boutique Hotel New York City
THE TIME is a design boutique hotel in New York City unlike any other, delivering a unique blend of hospitality with intellectual and sensory stimulation. Renowned designer, Adam D. Tihany has created THE TIME to coax your senses to mingle, to experience new sensations, and understand how color influences your mood and affects your day.
From the entry of the hotel, a two-story gleaming facade leading to a modern, cosmopolitan lobby and lounge, through the fascinating multilingual news broadcasts in every guest floor corridor, to the color theory provocation in each guest room, THE TIME offers a most memorable hotel experience.
Boutique Hotel New York City
Inspired by Alexander Theroux's book, The primary Colors, Tihany designed each guest room of THE TIME randomly using one of the three primary colors -- red, blue and yellow, featured on an otherwise muted palette.
"The Broadway experience isn't complete without a trip to this stylish restaurant
and classy watering hole." - Time Out New York
"Best bet: act like a New Yorker and make a reservation
at Angus McIndoe." - Newsweek
"Have that second martini at Angus McIndoe."
- New York Times
"It is a very particular, somewhat peculiar place in the landscape of New York."
- New York Times
"The 'it' place to go after the best in show."
- USA Today
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"Where the stuff of gossip columns plays out nightly."
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"Come in after 7:30 when the pre-theater crowds have already cleared out-then you'll really receive excellent service above and beyond the already impeccable treatment."
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Eugene O'Neil Theater
Completed 1926
Architect Herbert J Krapp
The Forrest Theater was named to honor America's first internationally known actor, Edwin Forrest, the histrionic tragedian partly responsible for the Astor Place riots of 1849. This is a typical Shubert-built, Krapp-designed theater: a simple facade shrouding an elegant Adamesque interior
The theater opened on November 24, 1925 with a performance of Mayflowers. In 1934, Tobacco Road, which had opened at Theater Masque in 1932, moved to the Forrest. The bulk of the show's 3,182 performances were staged at this theater. In 1945 the theater's name was changed to the Coronet. Then, on November 11, 1959 the theater was renamed for Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill, author of Anna Christie, Long Day's Journey into Night, Mourning Becomes Elektra and The Iceman Cometh, among other intense psychological dramas. You'll notice below a string of Neil Simon hits played the theater, starting with The Last of the Red Hot Lovers in 1969. Simon then owned the Eugene O'Neill and sold it to the Jujamcyn organization in 1982. The interior of the theater was designated a New York City landmark in December 1987
This long-lived Theater District shop ("since 1948") is housed in the legendary Brill Building, the Tin Pan Alley of '50s and '60s pop, where legendary songwriters like Leiber and Stoller and producers like Don Kirschner and Phil Spector crafted the soundtrack for a generation. It's the perfect home for Colony, a nostalgia emporium filled with a pricey but excellent collection of vintage vinyl and new CDs.
Colony Music Center: For all your Karaoke...Sheet Music...and Broadway needs!!
1619 Broadway New York, NY 10019
212-265-2050 fax 212-956-6009
Colony Music Center
Address 1619 Broadway
Location At 49th St
Transportation Subway: N, R to 49th St.; 1, 9 to 50th St
Phone 212/265-2050
Web site http://www.colonymusic.com
Our Mission at St. Malachy’s Church –The Actors’ Chapel is to be of service to the Theatrical and Entertainment community, as we seek to be a blessing to our friends and neighbors in Faith. It is in this spirit that we are honoring The Actors’ Fund, Encore Community Services, and a few select individuals by offering our support of their mission and issuing our thanks to them for their tireless commitment to charitable works. In this, the second annual Father George Moore Awards dinner and benefit.
Located on West 49th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, St. Malachy's Roman Catholic Church was founded in 1902. And although the years have seen many changes in the neighborhood of the church, St. Malachy's remains today, an active, integral part of its most unusual, most dynamic community.
St. Malachy's service to its community was comparable to that of most other Catholic churches in New York City up until about 1920. Then the Theatre District moved in. Suddenly, actors, dancers, musicians, craftsmen, and tourists were filling the seats, replacing the types of parishioners St. Malachy's had seen in previous years.
Fortunately, the priests and leaders of St. Malachy's have all been men and women of their times, and so, adapted St. Malachy's to meet the needs of its new parishioners. Masses, confessions, missions were all rearranged to accommodate the rigors of theatre and nightclub schedules. And, finally, with the construction of the Actors' Chapel below the main church in 1920, St. Malachy's became famous as a haven of worship for the entertainment community….
Douglas Fairbanks married Joan Crawford at St. Malachy's. Herb Shriner's children were baptized here. Thousands jammed West 49th Street outside the church in final tribute to Rudolph Valentino. George M. Cohan, Spencer Tracy, Perry Como, Irene Dunne, Hildegarde, Florence Henderson, Elaine Stritch, Lawrence Luckinbill, Rosiland Russell, Danny Thomas, Bob and Dolores Hope and Ricardo Montalban, all worshipped at St. Malachy's. Fred Allen, Don Ameche, Cyril Ritchard, Pat O'Brien and Jimmy Durante served many a mass.
As late as 1968, over 16,000 people monthly attended St. Malachy's; and on opening nights, many in show business came to light candles for the success of their shows.
“There are actors all over the world (who) regardless of their circumstances, professional or personal, regardless of whatever difficulties they are facing, whatever problems or changes – there is one thing they can rely on & that is that 11 o’clock on Tuesday and Friday mornings come rain, shine, snow or what have you there is a session in the Actors Studio. And in that session work is being done. And the fact that actors can count on that, that they know that that exists, can help them get through.”
- Lee Strasberg
The Actors Studio is a non-profit membership organization for professional actors, directors, and playwrights founded in 1947 by Eliz Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, and Robert Lewis. Main headquarters are located at 432 West 44th Street in New York City with Actors Studio West, our major branch located in West Hollywood.
The Actors Studio was formed to provide a place where young and old professional actors could work together between jobs or during long runs to continue to develop their craft and to experiment with new forms in creative theatre work.
Membership is a lifetime commitment that affords a place for its members to work on their craft and techniques in private and in concert with senior master moderators and close colleagues.
The Actors Studio
432 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
212.757.0870
The rush of adrenaline as the house lights dim.
The hush of wonder as the curtain rises.
The flush of excitement as the drama unfolds.
The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. Spotlighting the finest in theatrical entertainment, the “Live Broadway” trademark is the sign that you are seeing the “Best in Shows.”
Coast to coast, Broadway is more than a street. Live Broadway is your backstage pass to lifetime memories in city after city, on stage after stage, across the country.
The League’s 600-plus members include theatre owners and operators, producers, presenters, and general managers in North American cities, as well as suppliers of goods and services to the commercial theatre industry. Each year, League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and more than 140 cities across the U.S. and Canada.
Broadway’s Trade Association
The League was born in 1930 when Broadway theatre operators came together to promote their common interests and negotiate collective bargaining agreements with theatrical unions and guilds. In subsequent years, the organization’s mission expanded to include serving the various needs of theatrical producers in New York and of national touring shows, as well as presenters of touring productions in cities throughout North America.
Today the League is a full-service trade association operating under the "Live Broadway" trademark. It is dedicated to fostering increased interest in Broadway theatre and supporting the creation of profitable theatrical productions.
A Vibrant National Entertainment Medium
The League supports its members through an array of programs and events designed to promote Broadway as a vibrant national entertainment medium. These include special events, industry-wide marketing initiatives, and corporate sponsorships, as well as numerous programs geared top making Broadway tickets and show information more accessible to the consumer.
Other key services include overseeing government relations for the Broadway industry, maintaining extensive research archives and databases, investing in the future through audience development programs, and supporting charitable efforts benefiting the theatrical community.
In all its programs and services, the League endeavors to strengthen Broadway theatre’s position as the pinnacle of live entertainment.
Scott Lennox, Fort Worth artist, poet, and musician will present his drawings, paintings, field notes, poetry, and original music about his love of the Brazos River and its surrounding countryside in a solo exhibition he calls Brazos River Country.
MariJo Moore, of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry is an author / artist / poet / essayist / lecturer / editor / publisher / workshop presenter.
Ms. Moore resides in the mountains of western NC. She is founder of rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, which was chosen as Publisher of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in 2001. Recent publications include Please Do Not Touch The Indians by Joseph A. Dandurand, First Nation Kwantlen, British Columbia, and Confessions of a Madwoman, a pocket size book of poetry.
Technique and method are as important as content in my work. My vehicle is realism, which seems to offer the clearly articulated language of imagery I need for expressing my thoughts. There is a search for order and meaning in my work, a longing for a sense of myth, magic, mystery and especially humor.
have a facinating 6 yr old daughter, two dogs, one house and a van. Life is short, so, I don't sweat the small stuff. I am preparing to direct my second film which will be shot in a wide range of cultures around the globe. I was a free-lance photographer for twelve years before turning to film.
I just finished directing my first film, Before the Music Dies which I hope you'll go and see at a screening near you. Or better yet, you can go to Amazon to buy it! Please help support my filmmaking habits!
My next film The Greener Side, focuses on the "pursuit of hapiness" in America. To find out more about it, simply click on The Greener Side my "top friends" below. You'll find blogs, photos and reports from the set. Please add The Greener Side as your friend! We need your support.
The Music Business offers you great career potential – if you’re ready . . .
Dramatic changes and restructuring within the Music Industry have created a wealth of career opportunities for a new type of professional who understands not only music and recording, but also economics, accounting, marketing and the law. To succeed in today’s Music Business, you have to know what you are doing. And knowing what you are doing is all about a quality education.
Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
Why was The Message written? The best answer to that question comes from Eugene Peterson himself: "While I was teaching a class on Galatians, I began to realize that the adults in my class weren't feeling the vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek. Writing straight from the original text, I began to attempt to bring into English the rhythms and idioms of the original language. I knew that the early readers of the New Testament were captured and engaged by these writings and I wanted my congregation to be impacted in the same way. I hoped to bring the New Testament to life for two different types of people: those who hadn't read the Bible because it seemed too distant and irrelevant and those who had read the Bible so much that it had become 'old hat.'"
Father Martin is one of the world's foremost educators on the subject of alcoholism and drug addiction. His highly effective videos have been recognized as some of the best ever made.
Yogananda brought to the West the path of Self-Realization. He said that “Self-Realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.”
For the past three decades, Anthony Robbins has served as an advisor to leaders around the world. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance, he has been honored consistently for his strategic intellect and humanitarian endeavors. His nonprofit Anthony Robbins Foundation provides assistance to inner-city youth, senior citizens, and the homeless, and feeds more than two million people in 56 countries every year through its international holiday “Basket Brigade.” Robbins has directly impacted the lives of nearly 50 million people from 80 countries with his best-selling books and multimedia products, public speaking engagements, and live events.
What began as a young person’s desire to help individuals transform the quality of their lives has grown into Robbins’ lifelong crusade as he is called on by leaders from every walk of life—presidents, political leaders, advocates for humanity, CEOs of multinational corporations, psychologists, peak performance athletes, world-class entertainers, teachers, and parents. Since fathering the life coaching industry, Robbins has produced the #1-selling audio coaching system of all time. He also is an international best-selling author, award-winning speaker, corporate Vice Chairman, and Chairman overseeing five private companies. Robbins has been honored by Accenture as one of the “Top 50 Business Intellectuals in the World”; by Harvard Business Press as one of the “Top 200 Business Gurus”; by American Express as one of the “Top Six Business Leaders in the World” to coach its entrepreneurial clients; by Justice Byron White as one of the world’s “Outstanding Humanitarians”; and by the International Chamber of Commerce as one of the top 10 “Outstanding People of World.”
Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey (LCG) is an association of ordinary Christian women and men who are called to contemplative living and prayer according to the Cistercian way. Lay Cistercians are committed to integrating Cistercian spiritual values and practices in their lives as laypersons.
LCG members seek to enrich their spiritual lives by adopting spiritual practices of a Cistercian tradition that are compatible with a non-monastic lifestyle. LCG is one of several international Cistercian lay associate programs that have emerged in recent years. LCG has an informal relationship with the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani near Bardstown, Kentucky.
Listen, O my son, to the precepts of thy master, and incline the ear of thy heart, and cheerfully receive and faithfully execute the admonitions of thy loving Father, that by the toil of obedience thou mayest return to Him from whom by the sloth of disobedience thou hast gone away.
Vatican City, officially State of the Vatican City (Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae; Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano), is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome. At approximately 44 hectares (108.7 acres), it is the smallest independent nation in the world.[1]
It was created in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty as a vestige of the much larger Papal States (756 to 1870). Vatican City is a non-hereditary, elected monarchy that is ruled by the Bishop of Rome — the Pope. The highest state functionaries are all clergymen of the Catholic Church. It is the sovereign territory of the Holy See (Latin:Sancta Sedes) and the location of the Apostolic Palace — the Pope's official residence — and the Roman Curia. Thus, while the principal ecclesiastical seat (Cathedral) of the Pope as Bishop of Rome (the Basilica of St. John Lateran) is located outside of its walls, in Rome, Vatican City can be said to be the governmental capital of the Catholic Church.
The monks of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Prairies have welcomed artists from the St. Norbert Arts Centre into their archival history. Here we have found a story of peace, a community of love and devotion, an ancient way of life guided by the principles of simplicity, self-sufficiency and prayer. Join us as we discover a spiritual journey through the humble daily life of a 21st Century monk.
"Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, 'Take, eat; this is my body.' And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, 'Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.'" (Matthew 26:26-28)
God's love for us is poured out in the sacrament of the Eucharist, where Christ is truly present for us, giving us life and healing.
The Roman Catholic Church has consistently held fast to the belief in the Real Presence. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all sacraments tend." In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained." "This presence is called 'real' - by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be 'real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present."
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church: paragraph 1374
Where Fools Alone Dare Tread
The Wise Folly of Christian Love
I look around me, as I'm wont to do, and I notice: I notice a society that has established self-love as the noblest aspiration; that sizes up the person against a doorpost, then pencils him in dollars.
I want to blame, and so I ought. But whom?
I might blame another, for that would be easy; but that would be false: for I am to blame.
I am to blame: Because within my own heart I possess -- no, even more: I give birth to -- the very faults I abhor around me; but if God's home within my own heart is ramshackle, I cannot expect the social order to be more welcoming.
Worldy wisdom then lies within me, ever more than without; and if I am to do justice, I must become a fool: to the wisdom that is worldly, within me as without: so that my wisdom may be God.
Then fool I shall be: Fools then we shall be, to the worldly wisdom first our own: so that we might hope to love.
The Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiu, New Mexico, U.S.A., was founded in 1964 by Fr. Aelred Wall, OSB, with monks of Mount Saviour Monastery in New York state. In 1983 the Monastery of Christ in the Desert was received into the English Province of the Subiaco Congregation as a Conventual Priory and in 1996 became an autonomous abbey. From its beginning the monastery has followed the Benedictine life with no external apostolates, but maintains a guesthouse for private retreats where men and women can share the Divine Office and Mass in the abbey church with the monks. Besides maintaining the guesthouse, the monks engage in agriculture, craft, maintenance and computer work at the monastery. A gift shop is also part of the monastery's income, which includes a mail-order department of books and other religious items in the gift shop.
The essence of the Cathedral of the Incarnation is not the brick and mortar out of which it is built; it is instead, the people who identify with it and who are bonded together by a common faith and a united sense of mission.
Our parish is a thriving community of more than 3,000 families representing more than 5,000 individuals in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee. The average age of our members is 35 although there is a good representation of individuals in their forties and older! Approximately 73% of our members are single. The diversity each of our parishioners brings to our community helps us grow and flourish.
The people of Cathedral rely on one another to build our parish, but their support extends much further than our church or parish. Cathedral parishioners support each other and reach out to our community to share their many special gifts through the many outreach programs associated with Cathedral.
We welcome you to our website. We hope it allows you to gain insight into the Cathedral of the Incarnation Parish Community.
May God bless you!
Reverend Patrick J. Kibby
Pastor, The Cathedral of the Incarnation
Holy Family Parish is a comunity of faith commited to proclaiming and living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We accept our calling received in Baptism to be members of the Body of Christ. Living in the Spirit of Jesus, we love and serve each other on our journey of faith.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen touched the lives of millions worldwide with his warmth, wisdom and humor. A master communicator, he had the great gift of preaching and teaching the Gospel in a way easy to understand.
Experience this influential, holy Catholic priest and the message of God's love he dedicated his life to share.
His Holiness’ first commitment is the promotion of human values such as compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment and self-discipline. All human beings are the same. We all want happiness and do not want suffering. Even people who do not believe in religion recognize the importance of these human values in making their life happier. His Holiness refers to these human values as secular ethics. He remains committed to talk about the importance of these human values and share them with everyone he meets.
Alone in God
my soul waits, silent.
My help is from Him. Alone in God
rest, my soul, in silence.
My hope is from Him.
He alone is my rock, my safety;
I shall not be shaken. (PS 62, V2,6)
The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members, not only for her own immediate benefit, but for the broadening and deepening of all true science, literature and art -- all come within the scope of the Catholic Encyclopedia. It differs from the general encyclopedia in omitting facts and information which have no relation to the Church. On the other hand, it is not exclusively a church encyclopedia, nor is it limited to the ecclesiastical sciences and the doings of churchmen. It records all that Catholics have done, not only in behalf of charity and morals, but also for the intellectual and artistic development of mankind. It chronicles what Catholic artists, educators, poets, scientists and men of action have achieved in their several provinces. In this respect it differs from most other Catholic encyclopedias. The Editors are fully aware that there is no specifically Catholic science, that mathematics, physiology and other branches of human knowledge are neither Catholic, Jewish, nor Protestant; but when it is commonly asserted that Catholic principles are an obstacle to scientific research, it seems not only proper but needful to register what and how much Catholics have contributed to every department of knowledge.
I. THE LIFE OF MAN - TO KNOW AND LOVE GOD
1 God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.
2 So that this call should resound throughout the world, Christ sent forth the apostles he had chosen, commissioning them to proclaim the gospel: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age." Strengthened by this mission, the apostles "went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it."
3 Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ's faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.
At the heart of Contemporary Christian music since its beginning, John Michael Talbot has proclaimed the message of Christ to many millions worldwide, and still maintains an active ministry through concert tours, recordings, books, and videos. He founded, and
remains the Spiritual Father and Minister General of the Brothers and Sisters of Charity at Little Portion Hermitage, an integrated monastic community in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.
HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness," says the Lord.[1] By these words of Christ we are advised to imitate His life and habits, if we wish to be truly enlightened and free from all blindness of heart. Let our chief effort, therefore, be to study the life of Jesus Christ.
The teaching of Christ is more excellent than all the advice of the saints, and he who has His spirit will find in it a hidden manna. Now, there are many who hear the Gospel often but care little for it because they have not the spirit of Christ. Yet whoever wishes to understand fully the words of Christ must try to pattern his whole life on that of Christ.
On September 30, 1943, His Holiness Pope Pius XII issued his now famous encyclical on scripture studies, Divino afflante Spiritu. He wrote: "We ought to explain the original text which was written by the inspired author himself and has more authority and greater weight than any, even the very best, translation whether ancient or modern. This can be done all the more easily and fruitfully if to the knowledge of languages be joined a real skill in literary criticism of the same text."
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. His writings include such classics as The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. Merton is the author of more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism and writings on peace, justice and ecumenism.
The Liturgy of the Hours (also known as the Divine Office) is the richest single prayer resource of the Christian Church. It provides prayers, psalms and meditation for every hour of every day. It has existed from the earliest times, to fulfil the Lord's command to pray without ceasing. Never monotonous, always new, it provides the means for the whole world, united, to pray together and sanctify every hour of every day of every year. All over the world, hundreds of thousands of priests and religious have vowed to pray the Liturgy daily, and all over the world they do, in public and in private, in tin shacks and cathedrals, in palaces and in prison camps.
But the Liturgy's very richness is also its weakness. The liturgical calendar, the four-week cycle of psalms, the celebrations of saints - all these interact in an intricate dance of prayer that requires some 6,000 pages of small print in 3 or 4 volumes. The complete books (the Breviary) are expensive to buy, heavy to carry, and, except for the really dedicated, complex to use. Thus many people with a busy life in the world are unable to undertake the project of praying the liturgy, and so it remains shamefully unused.
“The purpose of the Divine Office is to sanctify the day and all human activity.”
“The Office is... the prayer not only of the clergy but of the whole People of God.”
In short, the Rosary is an ancient, beautiful, and powerful prayer of devotion to God through devotion to Mary by means of a series of prayers and meditations on the life of Jesus and Mary. In it we find all that life offers: pains and joys, but also always the hope that only a loving, protecting, saving Father can truly give. The Rosary is a prayer of hope.
Virtual Rosary is a free program with three goals in mind:
1: To teach the rosary and make it simple with the program's super-easy operation.
2: To help keep the rosary refreshing and deep for anyone with the aid of scripture, illustrations, and music.
3: To build a worldwide community of people to pray for each other through the PrayerCast network.
1. Make the Sign of the Cross and say the "Apostles' Creed."
2. Say the "Our Father."
3. Say three "Hail Marys."
4. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
5. Announce the First Mystery; then say the "Our Father."
6. Say ten "Hail Marys," while meditating on the Mystery.
7. Say the "Glory be to the Father."
8. Announce the Second Mystery; then say the "Our Father." Repeat 6 and 7 and continue with Third, Fourth and Fifth Mysteries in the same manner.
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"My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ." --Billy Graham
Evangelist Billy Graham took Christ literally when He said in Mark 16:15, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.”
Mr. Graham has preached the Gospel to more people in live audiences than anyone else in history—over 210 million people in more than 185 countries and territories—through various meetings, including Mission World and Global Mission. Hundreds of millions more have been reached through television, video, film, and webcasts.
The most basic question everyone faces in life is Why am I here? What is my purpose? Self-help books suggest that people should look within, at their own desires and dreams, but Rick Warren says the starting place must be with God and his eternal purposes for each life. Real meaning and significance comes from understanding and fulfilling God’s purposes for putting us on earth.
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. Born in 1817, one of his first memories was of staying awake at night "looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them." One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
Rand's writing (both fiction and non-fiction) emphasizes the philosophic concepts of objective reality in metaphysics, reason in epistemology, and rational egoism in ethics. In politics she was a proponent of laissez-faire capitalism and a staunch defender of individual rights, believing that the sole function of a proper government is protection of individual rights (including property rights).
She believed that individuals must choose their values and actions solely by reason, and that "Man — every man — is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others." According to Rand, the individual "must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life."
A founder of the Transcendental movement and the founder of a distinctly American philosophy emphasizing optimism, individuality, and mysticism, Emerson was one of the most influential literary figures of the nineteenth century. Raised to be a minister in Puritan New England, Emerson sought to "create all things new" with a philosophy stressing the recognition of God Immanent, the presence of ongoing creation and revelation by a god apparent in all things and who exists within everyone. Also crucial to Emerson's thought is the related Eastern concept of the essential unity of all thoughts, persons, and things in the divine whole. Traditional values of right and wrong, good and evil, appear in his work as necessary opposites, evidencing the effect of German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel's system of dialectical metaphysics. Emerson's works also emphasize individualism and each person's quest to break free from the trappings of the illusory world (maya) in order to discover the godliness of the inner Self.
Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Velsor, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, whom he adored, was barely literate. She never read his poetry, but gave him unconditional love. His father of English lineage, was a carpenter and builder of houses, and a stern disciplinarian. His main claim to fame was his friendship with Tom Paine, whose pamphlet Common Sense (1776), urging the colonists to throw off English domination was in his sparse library. It is doubtful that his father read any of his son's poetry, or would have understood it if he had. The senior Walt was too burdened with the struggle to support his ever-growing family of nine children, four of whom were handicapped.
Young Walt, the second of nine, was withdrawn from public school at the age of eleven to help support the family. At the age of twelve he started to learn the printer's trade, and fell in love with the written and printed word. He was mainly self-taught. He read voraciously, and became acquainted with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Scott early in life. He knew the Bible thoroughly, and as a God-intoxicated poet, desired to inaugurate a religion uniting all of humanity in bonds of friendship.
"Obsession is without exaggeration one of the most important films of our time. "
-- Glenn Beck
CNN Headline News
"Obsession is required viewing for everyone. "
-- Howard Gordon
Executive Producer "24"
Joel C. Rosenberg is the founder of The Joshua Fund and the New York Times best-selling author of THE LAST JIHAD (2002), THE LAST DAYS (2003), THE EZEKIEL OPTION (2005), THE COPPER SCROLL (2006), and EPICENTER (2006) with more than one million copies in print.
EPICENTER: Why The Current Rumblings In The Middle East Will Change Your Future was Joel's first non-fiction book. It was released September 18, 2006.
Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born October 31, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly. He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the five-party race.
Ann Coulter is the author of five New York Times bestsellers —Godless: The Church of Liberalism (June 2006),How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)(October, 2004), Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors:The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).
ABC News is a division of ABC television and radio networks (ABC), owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. ABC News is the news unit of the American Broadcasting Company. Its slogan is: "More Americans get their news from ABC News than from any other source."