Country’s Night At The Grammy Awards
I hope you all had your TV’s tuned in to the 52nd annual Grammy Awards this past Sunday night. If not, you missed out on one of Country music’s biggest nights at the awards in years! With Taylor Swift and the Zac Brown Band taking home two huge awards, it was truly a wonderful night [...]
ADN Artist Danika Kary Promotes Music with New Video!
The Artist Development Network artist, Danika Kary, is a 14-year-old future super star! We are so proud of her! She’s become quite a talented songwriter, and she’s an example of what it takes to make it in this competitive market….SELF-PROMOTING! Danika is getting music videos produced in her home town, to help promote her music. The major [...]
ADN Presents Singer/Songwriter Courtney Yovich in the song “Happy To Be Here”
We are so excited and honored to present the young and beautiful Miss Courtney Yovich! It’s hard to believe she’s only 13 years old! Japanese/German background, this talented guitarist and singer/songwriter also plays bass and piano. The song “Happy To Be Here” which Courtney is singing in this home-spun video produced by her dad Matt Yovich, [...]
Milking the Demographics in Country Music
Country music has taken on a new direction over the last decade. I’m sure you’ve noticed. It’s rock. Get the right guitar tones mixed in with hard hittin’ drummers and you’ve got a great start on a modern day “country” song. I’m no traditionalist. I’m all for it. Crank it the $%^& up! I love [...]
Fast Food and Songwriting
I’ve noticed a new trend lately in American fast food restaurants. Value Meals are creeping up everywhere! Maybe it’s the recession. Maybe it’s just time. I guess we got tired of super-sizing and now we’ve moved on to anything under a buck.
God help us.
Lately my life has been so “in the office” that I’ve actually [...]
Professional Techniques for Singers and Songwriters
“Audiences are so visual in their orientation that an artist’s visual connection with an audience has incredible power. Think about it. Your perception of everything around you is influenced by how it looks. So many artists are mistaken by thinking that people are only there to listen and that the music is everything. But they [...]
Music Festival for Songwriters
It was my great privilege to attend the 25th annual Frank Brown International Songwriting Festival this weekend held at various venues along the Alabama/Florida gulf coast. Frank Brown was a night watchman at the popular “Flora-Bama” club, and his love for songwriters gave him the urge to get his favorite writers together to perform every [...]
Congrats to Songwriter Client for Great Patriotic Christmas Song!
LeeAnn Bone and her husband came to Nashville last year to co-write with some of the Artist Development Network’s seasoned songwriters. LeeAnn was inspired to write this patriotic song, “Home For Christmas,” due to the current conflict in the Middle East and living in a Military community.
So many heroes have gone without knowing our appreciation [...]
Art vs. Commerce-The Business Of Music
Years ago, I took my first day-job, selling TVs and stereos. The town was Berkeley, CA and it was a crazy 8-hour day. I remember talking to PhDs there, with a fine assortment of pens in their pockets, drooling over televisions with that I want this so bad look. Of course, all the while they [...]
More Songwriting Tips and Lessons
Lesson 6 From The 23 Critical Songwriters Mistakes E-Book
This lesson expresses one of the important factors of choosing the right song. It’s not just about having a song as good as a number one hit, it’s about having a song that’s better than the number one hit.
Watch the video for this critical songwriting lesson.