Ok, I admit it. I have several websites of my own. But I swear it happened by accident. I was a (not so) young Indiana guitar player / songwriter / partier following in the footsteps of fellow Hoosier John Mellencamp. But by necessity I was cheap, as I was pretty broke. I had learned though to not spend money promoting my songs. The rule of thumb is that if someone really likes your music, you shouldn't have to pay them.I started out subscribing the A&R registry, which lists all the music producers and publishers that are interested in new music. I spent an entire year making phone calls and sending out at least 1 CD a day to an interested party. I met lots of interesting people and got lots of offers that unfortunately violated my rule of thumb.
After that year, I was truly frustrated. And it seemed like the music on the radio got worse and worse. I tried a different approach, get on the internet! I said before I was cheap, and did not want to pay anyone to build a webpage. So I scoured the internet looking for locations that I could promote my music for free. After several attempts and learning about bit rates and other completely frustrating computer crap, I uploaded my first songs at Broadjam.com.
More to come...
When blogging first began, I thought "what a waste of time?" I felt people spent so much valuable time blogging that could be doing something constructive on the internet. Let me clarify a bit; I see the internet as a tool. Good for gathering information or finding a way to make an extra buck. I still feel there are better things to do with one's time, but I am finally convinced blogging has a deserved space amongst the clutter. 