APPLY for the Eliza Gilkyson OLD # 9 Workshop Scholarship
ONLY A FEW songwriters HAVE SO FAR,
the DEADLINE is Midnight CST Sunday December 11, 2005
you'll find details at:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/DIFS/message/716

Have YOU checked out songU?
Some IFS readers are PITCHING AND PLACING SONGS plus improving their
craft and making EXCELLENT NEW connections because of it.
Take a free course. check it out
http://www.SongU.com/ifs

IFS READER MARK ADDISON WROTE

yes, I've been to chateau marouatte twice.

Mark Addison
The Aerie Studio
India Records
Mark Addison Music Productions
MAD6
Kitty Gordon
http://aeriestudio.com
512-924-9671

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Dear IFS Readers,

I hope this email finds you well
What's new with your songwriting?

I've been working on several new songs

I have a new collaborator I'm very excited about my buddy Jan Mirkin
the Texas ASCAP rep introduced me to him.

Some one wrote me.
"I LOVE, LOVE your song "Faint of Heart". Absolutely, that is a
great song!!"



Ande

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I do believe on Mon Dec Nashville Star will announce regional
finalists. People are getting calls,
Did any IFS readers make it?
The regional finals are in Nashville and Houston.

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Heard of the new Townes Van Zandt documentary "Be Here to Love Me"
http://www.townesthemovie.com/
http://www.townesvanzandt.com/DOCUMENTARIES.html
http://www.townesvanzandt.com/
See the film trailer
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2678308?htv=12

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Singer Searching for Songs

Date: Dec/07/2005
By: Dale Deaton
E-mail: daledeatoncountry@...

Title: Singer

Subject: Country songs wanted

Comment:
Traditional country songs mixed with a modern feel wanted for
recording. Please submit all songs to email address
daledeatoncountry@....
Serious submissions only with all copyright and any other
authorizations.

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joniatkins@... writes:
Hello my name is Joni Atkins. I am a female, contemporary Christian
singer. I live in Huntsville, AL. My bio can be found at
www.joniakins.com. I am an indie artist and I am looking for
original up-beat Christian songs to record a demo and then possibly
onto a full CD project. The style of song I am looking for is along
the lines of Joy Williams or Rachael Lampa's music. I sing in many
venues including churches, concerts, retreats, etc. I do not have
sound bytes on my website as of yet, but if someone is interested in
sending materials to me and would like to hear my voice first, they
can request a demo I have already done of cover songs. They can
contact me by email at
joni@...
or by snail mail:
Joni Atkins,
133 Alpha Lane,
Huntsville, AL 35811

I would be glad to send them any demos that are made using their
songs.

Thank you so much for your time and I appreciate any help you might
could offer.

Joni Atkins
www.joniatkins.com
-Jer 29:11


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I found Allison Sattinger on MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/allisonsattinger
I love what she wrote about making music, I think You will too.

"Oh Goodness, is this where I sell myself?
I can say I play piano, sing, write and generally try to coordinate
these things in a way that is pleasing to the ear without dissolving
into packaged pop madness.

Indie music and indie musicians completely rule my heart; I think it
is the bravest and best thing to take wood and bone and flesh and
make music from them;

if you think about it; it's really a miracle. In fact, everything is
a miracle. You, reading this blurb about me, perhaps an old friend or
a total stranger...perhaps a music lover who stumbled onto this
page...we are not separate, you and I. Welcome to these thoughts,
these notes, this sci-fi miracle of technology giving you strangers
who become familiar. I have made this music for you and I."
www.allisonsattinger.com


allison I stumbled upon you and I'm glad that I did.
ande

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here was someone's post at a message board

For an artist demo if you are country, I would consider a full band
demo of 3 songs or so done at a place like www.gcmusic1.com. Some
critic
sent out 10 songs to 10 studios and this studio produced the most
professional demo of them all. Don't bring your own band in, let the
studio do the tracks because they will get the best sound. The owner
is Faith Hill's former music director and I have had several demos
done there.

As far as a songwriter demo, GC Music is the best. Jeff Carson, Curb
recording artist with hit songs to his credit is actually doing
demos there and the site has samples. Jeff's demos sound radio
release quality...no surprise there.

But I have to add, for songwriter demos, I use to be feverish in my
push for full band demos but not anymore. A&R, producers, and the
artists want room for imagination and to imagine how they can slant
a song to their style and full band demos take a little out of that
possibility and can effect the demo in a negative way. The best is a
guitar\vocal, piano\vocal demo because you aren't tying the song to
a style but the vocalist is important. There are some studios I
won't use because they don't use the best demo singers. Pay for the
best vocalist you can afford. Here are the best that I know of:

Julie Burton
Jeff Carson
Darryl Lee Odonnel
Mike Lusk
Dave Brooks
Tim Buppert
Tim Hopkins

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ever explore all about jazz?

www.allaboutjazz.com

you might want to submit your jazz tunes to
http://www.visionx.com/cgi/aaj/dailydl.pl

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The Recording Academy is proud to present music's biggest night! The
48th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be broadcast live from STAPLES Center
in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday, February 8, 2006, on CBS.

Qualified Voting and Associate members* will be sent an official
invitation in mid-December. Members will also be able to download
printable Member Order Forms and General Ticketing Information online
in the Members Only section of www.grammy.com starting December 14,
2005.

To access your individual Member Order Form and General Ticketing
Information sheet:
1. Log onto to www.grammy.com and click on the Members Only
section.
2. Enter your Member ID number and Password. (For password
assistance, please e-mail membershipcard@... .)
3. Once inside, click the GRAMMY Ticketing link and select either
the General Information Sheet or Ticket Order Form.
4. Click the Print button to print the selected form.


Please note that the Awards Ceremony and Post-Telecast Celebration
have been separated into two (2) events and must be purchased
separately. Members purchasing tickets to both events will be
accommodated with two (2) separate tickets.

For the fastest possible service, please fax your completed order
form with credit card authorization to the GRAMMY Ticketing Office at
310.314.8241. All orders are accommodated on a first-come, first-
served basis and subject to availability.

Nominations for the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards will be announced at a
special press conference on Thursday, December 8, 2005. Please check
your local listings for details and be sure to visit www.grammy.com
for highlights and a complete listing of nominees.

For further ticketing information, please contact the GRAMMY
Ticketing Office at 310.314.8281 or by e-mail at ticketing@....


*To be eligible to purchase tickets to the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards,
you must be a Voting or Associate Member of The Recording Academy in
good standing, having either joined or renewed by December 1, 2005.

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ASK ANDE

I am member of your group on Yahoo and I have been reading every line
of every issue that you send out. I just need to ask this one simple
lil' question....

"I have been writing lyrics for five yrs now.
I am a member of Songramp, JPF and Collabration Central.
I have had a lot of composers say they love my writing and that they
want to co-write with me.
Why is it that so many folks start to compose or co-write, but
cannot be professional about what they do(or don't do) and just quit
(or not even let a person know that they are still alive?
What it all boils down to is .....
how did you find and keep the great bunch of people you work with?

Thanks,
Mikey

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Dear Mikey,

Thanks for asking your question.
It sounds to me like you are doing a lot of things right.
I'm very blessed to collaborate with the people I do.

I've spent a lot of time
learning the songwriting craft
searching for great song ideas
developing songs
networking locally and globally
cowriting and
promoting songs

I just meet people inperson or on line and If I love their work
eventually I ask them if I can run a few song ideas past them.

Most of the time they say yes.

It's also more important to me to be their friend than to be their
collaborator so I check in on folks and find out what's up.

Over the years I've noticed that collaborators go through phases,
sometimes they are very interested in writing songs and other times
it's the last thing they want to do.

I think it's also important to have an impressive body of work for
possible collaborators to hear. Invite people to browse through your
catalog so they can hear your work.

Don't keep your success a secret. If you've gotten cuts or won
contests let folks know.

Let folks know your strengths and weaknesses and attempt to find
collaborators who fit.

Be a community member. There's many online songwriting and music
communities. Become a regular.

Locally, go to gigs. Or better yet, help get people well paying gigs.

Become an information hub in your community, Doak Turner's done this
in Nashville with www.NashvilleMuse.com When you're a hub you become
aware of more opportunities. I'm kind of an info hub with IFS.

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Ande,

I do appreciate your newsletter--I think I'm one of the original
subscribers. I recently wrote a song about hurricanes Katrina and
Rita in a "poke salad annie" groove and have been getting great
feedback whenever I play it (but I don't perform that much)--150
teachers gave the song a standing ovation at a BREAKFAST meeting in
Pittsburgh. Teachers who had lost homes in the hurricane came up to
me to express appreciation for making them laugh, cry, and want to
dance.

I'd like the song to get a wider audience--I'd love for someone
famous to record it and get wide airplay, but I would want every
penny it earned to go to flood relief--to the rebuilding of people's
homes and lives, to furnishing schools, helping children--to
reputable charities (I would of course donate all royalties of any
kind). I don't have the connections to make it happen in a
significant way. I have recorded it on my home digital recorder in a
decent way that can be considered demo quality. I will send it out on
mp3 or snail mail on disk to someone who will seriously try to get it
into the hands of a major recording artist, but don't want it to just
get around as a free track.

Any help or advice you or your readers can give me is
appreciated. I am not looking for anything out of this except to know
that I helped in some way.

Thank you,
Paul Epstein
http://webpages.charter.net/contrarians/paulepstein

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here's some interesting old Chronicle articles

steven fromholz
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue02/music.fromholz.htm
l

lucinda
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue08/music.lucinda.html

terry bozio
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue11/music.bozzio.html

bruton
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue31/music.bruton.html

radney
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol18/issue39/music.foster.html

shelley
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-09-
14/music_feature3.html

pat green
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-10-
19/music_feature2.html

dale watson
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-07-
27/music_feature.html


jimmy dale
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-02-
25/music_feature.html

music couples
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-08-
11/music_feature.html


Write On,

Ande

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