Dax - To be a Man     ..... is an AMAZING song.   Anyone know any others?   PLEASE SHARE!!!!! ... View more

It hurts. It hurts watching the world work.  Two years ago, I was dreaming of the Appalanchians. The most affordable place in America for our folk with nothing to have some sort of financial hope in the American dream that doesn't exist from a slow paced focus on the family here on the west coast.  Even the final frontier of Idaho did I fail before it found purpose of a certain ridance. Now days, some incredible artists happen to be coming out of the most affordable, yet generally limited states in our recent history. Dammit!  Why am I so pessimistic in sharing my pessimism.  It seems like a plan to drag yesterdays marketing into tomorrows inflation. Sorry West Virginia, grab your hope while it is there, because **ahem** is comin... Sorry ... View more

Compensation for Artists and Data of Listeners Do these two subjects intertwine? Do artists get paid well these days? Switching from physical copies to streaming and subscriptions must create some relative movement in strategy. Where is the compensation coming from? Is it the data-harvest around us all paying for all?   Just some thoughts... ... View more