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Red Dirt: The Power of Infrastructure
Having a major label record deal has never guaranteed success for an aspiring artist, but by and large in the past, having a major record deal served as a pre-requisite for success, after all, recording costs were prohibitively expensive and the majors had a lock on the retail distribution channels.
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Country Singer/Songwriters Are Hot Investments
When someone starts talking about IPOs and investing my eyes gloss over, but if you have some money to blow, I mean invest, then country music is apparently a hot commodity. And by “some money,” I mean a minimum of $500,000.
Country singer/songwriters are the single hottest investment property you can find in 2008. A new [...]Continue reading "Country Singer/Songwriters Are Hot Investments"
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Nothing Like Last Of The Breed Will Ever Come Along Again And New Book Names Top 100 Country Fan Clubs
I can’t read enough about Last of the Breed. It’s to the point where I don’t remember the last time I was this excited about one thing. My intense excitement is mostly due to something Chet Flippo mentions in his review of the Last of the Breed album, “nothing like this is ever going to [...]
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- Dan E.: Stormy: For starters, her first single off of this third album is the fastest rising of her career. When did ...
- Dan E.: Johnny Paycheck: Your last two comments are over-exaggerated nonsense.
- Steve Harvey: Dan, please don't start the CU v TS flame wars again. It's not helping anything.
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- Mike Lilie: I Have A Bunch Of 45S &Albums Of Mundo Earwood Randy Corner Kenny Dale &Many More Over 1000 Albums &45s ...
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