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Go here to view this month's newsletter jam-packed with fun, music
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Here's the link to the new Newsletter:

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Thanks,

B. Marcel & The IML Staff

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Thanks,

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Hey, just wanted to also let you know the site will be up again
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go here to see some of the new music videos on IMLTV:

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If you've enjoyed our music business articles here on Myspace, you'll
love this news!  First off, I am now a writer for Suite101.com.  Go
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They are exclusives to this site so please make sure you check out
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Also go here to find out how you can get your hands on over 20+
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Here is the link for this month's issue:

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Brandon Marcel's 2006 Article Compilation-In this e-book you'll get
over 20 reports by IndieMusicLounge.Com CEO and Founder on issues
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success, and more.

Not only this but for purchasing your copy today you'll also receive
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Just wanted to first off inform you all that starting in June there will begin to be 2 monthly newsletters, one focused on the happening within IndieMusicLounge.Com and the site itself, followed by a second containing the normal content you've all come to know and love, lol. 

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Not only this but for purchasing your copy today you'll also receive our popular IndieMusicLounge.Com's Big List which is comprised of over 100 links to industry sites that we believe all indies should know about.  Not only that, but you'll also receive a special hidden list of over 30 links to help you with getting traffic to your music websites.

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Hey, everyone!  We would like to first off welcome all of the over 200 new members to this group (we must be doing something right, huh :).  Secondly we'd like to remind you about this:

Go Here ==> http://www.indiemusiclounge.com/imltv  

Better known as IMLTV!  This is our new online Music Video Network, we are oober excited about this network and want as any eligible musicians to get involved as possible.  How Do you Do that?...

Go Here ==> http://www.indiemusiclounge.com/imltv

Check out a few sample videos we've already approved there and go here for more details as to how you can be the next musicians added to our station:

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Enjoy this Month's IndieMusicLounge.Com Newsletter!

-B. Marcel & the IML Staff

Hey all, sorry for the increased postings, but we've been releasing a number of new items that I just couldn't hold myself back from telling you about.  You forgive me, right?  One such item is this new offer by IndieMusicLounge.Com/IMLTV:

You Can Now Submit Your Music Videos To Be Played By IMLTV-IndieMusicLounge.Com's new internet television network.  Any genre, any length (try and aim toward the average 3.5-6 minutes though), from any artists (assuming you own the rights to submit the artist's videos).  This is a GREAT OPPORTUNITY for you to increase your band's exposure and potenially your fanbase as well.  All of course at no charge to you.

click here to view the submission guidelines and rules: http://www.indiemusiclounge.com/imltv

Thanks for the submissions in advance and I promise no more promos (at least I don't think so anyway).

-B. Marcel

(Also no obscene videos containing, nudity, violence, racism or explicit acts or the use of drugs or any other illegal material will be accepted by IMLTV)

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Hey all!  Been awhile, huh?  But we're back and better than ever!  Check out the new issue of the newsletter here:

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Also be sure to make your way around to see our new site look and stores to take advantage of all of the great new opportunities we've created for you.

Until Next Time, Get Out There & Manifest Your Career Success!

-B. Marcel

Hey I just wanted to first off remind everyone about IndieMusicLounge.Com's Musician's Palace offer on some of the newest products and music gear showed off this year @ THE NAMM SHOW.  Only TWO WEEKS remains for you to pre-order and be one of the first musicians to have these incredible new items, so hurry!

Also I wanted to give everyone a sneakpeak at the new IML we've been working to create.  There's a ton more products and services we're planning on offering, some as early as next quarter, as well as many more interactive, free things you'll be able to do on IndieMusicLounge.Com's New Website! (The links aren't live yet : (

And Finally I'd like to again show my graditude for all of those that have viewed and even purchased items from our preview of the new IndieMusicLounge.Com cd store IndiesRawk CDStore.  If you haven't yet seen it I urge you to, it's really shaping up quickly!

Thanks again for all of your support,

B. Marcel and IML staff

Now, Get Out There And Shop, lol!

Hi everyone, I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday celebrations and are ready to embrace 2007 and make it your music careers best year ever!  Here @ IML we've been brewing up a lot of new products and services to launch this year designed to help you do just that.  For starters here is the link to view our newly revised cd store preview (scroll to page bottom) and the beginnings of a major overhual of the whole look and feel of our gear store now named Musician's Palace.

here is the link to view these new stores and to recieve a special pre-order option from some of The NAMM Show's top manufacturers:

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And without further ado... the IndieMusicLounge.Com Newsletter (Issue 11)  link.

Hey, just got some exciting news.  We have just created our own broadband video network (IMLTV) which will air videos of your music alongside other shows over time designed to give indies a newer way to promote themselves.  We're still in the process of setting up the various submission guidelines and show types/schedules so I'll keep you posted as things progress as to when you can begin to submit your videos for airplay, so stay tuned : -)

Here is this month's IndieMusicLounge.Com Newsletter 

-B. Marcel

P.S. We also have started a new Yahoo! Group which will allow you to hold discussions, promote cds, gigs and more: IndieMusiciansTalk! 

Hey out there, I just wanted to remind everyone about our booming Coupons pages on IndieMusicLounge.Com.  We've added even more great offers from our sponsors.  Please take sometime and view these great offers.  There's everything from discounts on jewelry to musical gear, of course, and I don't want you to miss out on what so many others have wisely chosen to be apart of.  Here's the link again: IndieMusicLounge.Com Coupon Pages .

Also I wanted to remind you about the great Q & A offer from vocal instructor Dan Parilis.  To submit your question please go to his myspace site  or Dan's official site   and submit your vocals questions today! 

Finally I would like to thank those of you that participated in our first ever IndieMusicLounge.Com 25 days of Christmas offer.  I hope you all are getting a great deal from these daily email packages as we at IML hoped you would.

Happy Holidays,

B. Marcel

CEO and Founder of IndieMusicLounge.Com

Hey everyone, I hope you all in the U.S. have a great turkey day this week and are ready for the "Most Wonderful Time Of The Year".  We at IndieMusicLounge.Com have created a number of new offers and services that I'm sure you will love (pay extra close attention to the editors message at the beginning of the newsletter to see how you can be apart of these offers).  Click here to read about them and to read this month's Newsletter .

Peace,

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Here is the link to this month's newsletter: issue 8 

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As you can see we have all been busy at IndieMusicLounge.Com trying to bring you more and more free to use advice and products and this is just the beginning of that. 

Until Next Time, Get Out There And Manifest Your Career Success!

-B. Marcel

(P.S. if you are a band or company that wishes to know more about how you can advertise in our monthly newsletter now reaching over 1000 reader each month, click here .)

Here is the link to this month's IndieMusicLounge.Com Newsletter: 

 Issue 7  

I hope you enjoy our new format.  I'm also putting a lot of the finishing touches on the official website, IndieMusiclounge.Com, due to launch later this month.  I too would like to welcome our newest members and remind everyone of the official IndieMusicLounge Article Blog  that I write each week focused on artist knowledge and advancement.  Keep on rawking and...

Get Out There And Manifest Your Career Success!

-B. Marcel

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Advice/Tips and Techniques:

Bryan Farrish is owner of Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion, his website and additional information can be found at radio-media.com. For a complete description of our syndication campaigns, including pricing, send an email to airplay@...

I'll try to put into one article, here, every bit of advice or wisdom I could share with my fellow musicians, from my experience. (Disclaimer: These are my opinions and observations from my unique experience only! Others may disagree.)

Who does the hiring at colleges... Click Here to read more.


Derek Sivers is President of the online store CDBaby  which is the #1 online source for finding, selling and buying great independent music from artists across the world.

BREATHING EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY, Part 1

by Dan Parilis

"Connect the breath"? Sounds like vocal-ese techno-jargon, right? Don't worry, it'll make sense soon... Click Here to read more.

Dan Parilis is a vocal instructor based in New York and also answers free Q & As and gives advice through his Myspace page myspace.com/vocalinstruction and his site vocalbrilliance.com.

IndieMusicLounge.com's Top Cd of the Month

by the IML Critic

Checkout Kenny Rankin's Cd   

 Checkout Regina Spektor's Cd   

Check out Carmen Rodgers' Cd 

Search Cdbaby for more great independent artists and cds 

HomeGrownMusic.net

IndieBandManager.com

MusicSteps.com

Well that's it for this month, Until next month Get Out There And MANIFEST YOUR CAREER SUCCESS.

IndieMusicLounge Newsletter

Welcome to this months IndieMusicLounge Newsletter I hope you all had a wonderful Independence Day. This newsletter is designed to give Independent musicians advice on how to improve in musicianship, marketing, promotions, and sales as well as spotlight those in the community.

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Building Wealth From The Inside Out, By Brandon Marcel

Expand Your Definition Of A Live Performance, By Bob Baker

MECHANICS *FIRST*, THEN RESULTS, By Dan Parilis

3 Top Sites To Help With Your Career And Exposure, By Brandon Marcel

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The biggest mistake singers (or prospective singers) make is that they try to manipulate their voices into sounding a certain way right out of the gate. They hear a performer who they really dig, and they try to twist their voices into sounding like that performer when they sing. The problem with that is, the singer they are emulating has probably spent years developing that sound, and, more importantly, that singer's voice probably naturally lends itself to sounding that way. So, the prospective singer manipulates his or her voice to try and create the quality that the singer they are emulating gets naturally. And this often leads to a serious strain, either right away, or over time.

Dan Parilis is a vocal instructor based in New York and also answers free Q & As and gives advice through his myspace page myspace.com/vocalinstruction and his site vocalbrilliance.com.

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Welcome to this months IndieMusicLounge Newsletter. This newsletter is designed to give Independent musicians adviceon how to improve in musicianship, marketing, promotions, and sales as well as spotlight those in the community.

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Radio Airplay 101 - Hiring Your Own Record Deal, Bryan Farrish

How To Beat The Majors At Their Own Game, Bob Baker

Singing Is An Athletic Activity, Plain And Simple, By Dan Parilis

3 Sites To Help With Your Career And Exposure, By Brandon Marcel

Bryan Farrish is owner of Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion, his website and additional information can be found at radio-media.com. For a complete description of our syndication campaigns, including pricing, send an email to airplay@...

In an issue of the trade magazine Billboard, columnist Chris Moore once expressed his bewilderment over the avalanche of new releases from independent labels during the months of October, November and December. Obviously, these record companies want to take advantage of the holiday buying frenzy. The only problem, argued Moore, is that the major labels choose these same months to release most of their heavy-hitting new albums.

And who do you think is going to get most of the attention at retail stores and on the radio during the fourth quarter every year? You can bet it won't be the indie labels.

Moore's suggestion: Independent labels should save their biggest moves for times when the majors are putting forth their smallest efforts. He cited January, a month when major labels are catching their breath after the big holiday push, as being the perfect month for smaller companies to act.

And he added this gem: "In guerrilla warfare, the insurgents always stand the best chance of making a successful strike when the other side is asleep."

I knew right away that I had read these sentiments expressed before. So I picked up my copy of Marketing Warfare (McGraw-Hill), one of many fine books by Al Ries and Jack Trout.

Within its pages I found more ammunition for this viewpoint: "Launch your attack on as narrow a front as possible," the authors write. "This is an area where marketing people have a lot to learn from the military. Where superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at a decisive point by making skillful use of what you have. The marketing army that tries to gain as much territory as fast as possible by attacking all at once with a broad line of products will surely lose in the long run."

The philosophy here is simple: When you are not the leader in your field, you can't possibly win by playing on the same turf and using the same tactics as the leader. Instead, you use the leader's strength to your advantage by focusing your efforts on areas too insignificant for them to bother with.

Plus, you won't succeed by trying to be all things to all people. That broad-appeal, shotgun approach doesn't work for indie bands and labels 99 percent of the time. Your music won't connect with any one group of consumers strongly enough to matter. That's why pinpointing areas where the big players are weak is the best strategy.

Now that you're beginning to absorb this their-weakness-is-your-strength attitude, I encourage you to start coming up with ways you can use your small size to your advantage.

Where else could you be playing live? Through what alternate routes might you get media exposure? What types of new retail outlets could you approach to sell your CDs? How might you package your next release to make it different?

Stop complaining about your lack of resources, and start reframing your current situation into a position of strength!

Singing Is An Athletic Activity, Plain And Simple

By Dan Parilis

What is an athlete, exactly? An athlete is someone who can perform a feat of physical excellence by using developed musculature, and coordination of that musculature. An Olympic runner isn't only fast because he or she was born that way, they are fast because they've been taught how to conserve their motion while running, how to alleviate tension in their bodies, how to breathe a certain way that will help their success, and not hinder it, etc. Behind every great runner, there is the person or persons who taught them the skills and techniques they needed to enhance their latent abilities and reach their potential.

Just like the act of hitting a baseball was daunting for me (see Article I, An Introduction to Voice Technique), the act of singing well is daunting for many people. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason as to why some people do it so much better than others.

Well, the answer to the query is this: people who sing well naturally, have better initial coordination regarding all of the muscular elements involved with singing than other people. But again, there's no reason why most anyone can't LEARN that coordination Yup, you heard it here first! Whether you're an amateur or an accomplished vocalist, there's absolutely no reason why eyou can't become *much* better than you are currently are, by learning correct vocal technique. Things like correct breathing, alleviating tension, learning how to adjust the musculature involved in proper resonance, etc., can make your voice stronger, more resilient, and more diverse. And yes negative emotional dispositions, whether they are simple or complicated, have a TREMENDOUS bearing on the way you sing (when I had that baseball being thrown at me, and I wasn't sure exactly HOW I was supposed to hit it, it scared the crap out of me! Do you think that fear and insecurity had an effect on my success (or lack there of) at hitting the ball? You better believe it!).
The emotional elements connected with singing will be covered in another article. In the meantime, as we move on to the next one, lets talk about slowing down that pitch, and giving you a chance to work on your swing (so to speak).

Dan Parilis is a vocal instructor based in New York and also answers free Q & As and gives advice through his myspace page myspace.com/vocalinstruction and his site vocalbrilliance.com.

Indie911.com- This website offers a way for musicians to pursue licensing opportunities (publishing) and through Indie911's platinum membership you get access to marketing and licensing solutions of SongCatalog's Music Licensing Network. Truly worth a look.

MusicSubmit.com- MusicSubmit will do just that submit your music with Flash Player to genre-specific internet radio stations, music ezines, podcasts, and other music related sites. Your flash player can also be re-posted on music sites to create tons of online stores.

MusicForte.com- This is a Japanese Distribution/Promotions company that will bring your music to the far-east (Japan). Their services include a translated website, worldwide radio promotion, search engine optimization, digital promotions and much more. Check them out the next time your looking to expand your band's worldwide fan base and touring locations.

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Bryan Farrish is owner of Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion, his website and additional information can be found at radio-media.com. For a complete description of our syndication campaigns, including pricing, send an email to airplay@...

Using The Lack Of Time To Your Benefit

By Tim Sweeney (www.TSAMusic.com)


The other day I was asked if there was anything that all music artists have in common. Of course there is! The lack of time.

Whether you are doing your music full time or balancing a day job and building your career, you never have enough time to do all the things on your list to promote your music. And this is where the problems begin.

When you have a long list of things to do when it comes to promoting your next show or trying to get a review or airplay, you are going to fail. The reason why is because you are trying to accomplish too many things at once. But before you waste your money by running out and hiring a publicist who still uses outdated press kits and old fashion bios or a "radio tracking" service who claims to be a radio promoter, lets sell the CDs you already have sitting on the floor.

Your first step is to cross off 90% of what is on your "to do" list. Focus on two basic principals. One, you need to promote your music at all times! Whether you have a show coming up or not, you need to be talking to everyone about your music and give them a "proper" CD sampler. (Like the ones I have outlined in my workshops). Two, you need to focus on your home city. Instead of driving hundreds of miles to play for 25 people, build a fan base of a few hundred fans at home before you start touring.

The key to selling your first or next 1,000 CDs is not airplay on a college radio station where they will play your song 3 or 4 times a week or airplay on the local show of a commercial radio station. It's not getting a review in a magazine that is primarily read by musicians who aren't going to buy your CD or traveling hundreds of miles to play another show where you don't have a lot of fans. The key to selling your first or next 1,000 CDs is YOU. People want to connect with you. Your music is a means for them to do that. Since you are the key, this means focusing your daily, weekly and monthly "to do" lists down to only a few items at a time that you can actually do. And again, these are items that will help you sell CDs right now! (For more ideas and strategies order Tim Sweeney's Guide To Releasing Independent Records Part 2, http://www.tsamusic.com/products.asp)

Before you spend the time making some grand marketing plan for the year that won't sell your first 1,000 or even 10,000 CDs in your home city (because you will be just repeating what you did last year that didn't work), check out my upcoming seminar at http://www.MusicStrategies.com.

If you want help right now with selling the CDs sitting on the floor in your house, email me directly at Sweeney@... or call me directly at 951-303-9506

by Dan Parilis

For many people, both singers and non-singers alike, the act of vocalizing is something of a mystical phenomenon. The mouth opens, the sound comes out, and it either sounds good, or it doesn't. It's something that "comes from inside of us"; either you're "born with it", or you're not.

Non-singers look at people who can sing well with a sort of reverence, and often times, people who already sing well look with a similar reverence to people who seem to have more natural talent than they do. "How the hell does he hit that high note and make it look so easy?" "How is she able to hold that note without running out of air?" "Why can they project like that, get such a powerful sound? They must have been born with a really strong voice…"

The fact of the matter is, like ANY ability, some people are born with a more natural and untrained knack for it than others. But that doesn't mean that those without that initial capacity can't develop it.

I, personally, was a lousy athlete all through grade and middle schools. I couldn't hit a baseball or throw a football to save my life. But some of the other kids were great at it! So, I thought that sports and athleticism were simply beyond my reach of attainable capabilities.
One day when I was about 13 years old, my older brother came back from college to visit, and we somehow ended up at a batting cage down the road from my house. He slowed down the process of swinging and hitting for me; he explained to me that I wasn't following through with my swing, that I was holding the bat incorrectly, and offered me some tips in regards to how to anticipate the direction of the pitch, and therefore, how to connect with it. Within a half hour, I was able to connect with every pitch he threw at me. You can imagine my excitement!

The crux of the situation was this: my natural tendencies for hitting a baseball were wrong, and no one had ever given me ANY direction at all as to how to fix my bad habits or do it better. So, in my mind, I had this tremendously daunting task: someone was throwing something at me, and I had to somehow, magically, find a way to make the bat that I was holding connect with this projectile. It was such a big task, I couldn't fathom the multitude of elements that went along with it: how I should be standing, how to hold the bat, how to alleviate tension in my body as I swung, how to develop the coordination necessary to anticipate the speed of the ball, my own control of the bat, and make all of those elements work together to successfully achieve the desired result: hitting the damned ball.

Again, some people were naturally better at it from the get-go than I was. But when the process was slowed down for me, when I had the chance to work on these elements one or two at a time and really get them under my skin, I learned how to hit the baseball.

How does this long diatribe factor into singing, you may be impatiently thinking? Well, because with singing, it's the SAME DAMNED THING.

Singing well is NOT some mystical and unattainable concept that most of us make it out to be. On the contrary, it's a very attainable goal that comes with a strong understanding of our instrument, and some diligent work at developing that instrument. In most cases, becoming the singers we dream about being is a very realistic ambition, rather than the unreachable "pie in the sky" pipe dream most people envision it to be.

This series of articles will be geared towards demystifying the act and art of singing well. It will be chocked full of information that I think every singer should know about their voices. Some of the information will be conceptual, dealing with how most people SEE the voice versus how it actually is, and how our understanding of our voices, or lack of understanding, is a critical element in improving our skills and abilities, and increasing our confidence. And, some of the information will be practical and applicable details; exercises, drills and experiments, to help anyone who reads them to improve their voices dramatically, whether they are seasoned professionals, or at the beginner level.

I help people become the singers they want to be. It's what I love to do, and it's what I do well. So…that being said, lets cut the jibber jabber, and get started!

Dan Parilis is a vocal instructor based in New York and also answers free Q & As and gives advice through his myspace page myspace.com/vocalinstruction and his site vocalbrilliance.com.

By Brandon Marcel

Galaris.com- This website offers musicians a host of music related articles, services an organizations software, music industry directories, a great newsletter distributed monthly, and much much more, be sure to check it out!

Oasiscd.com- This is the site for the Oasis Cd manufacturing company. They offer a number of services and extras to there manufacturing packages that can really make it worth it to check them out the next time you have a Cd or DVD product ready to be pressed.

JukeboxAlive- This is a great website for both musicians and fans. It allows you to stream your music, set up a profile, sell music and create a digital press kit among a number of other cool features. Jukeboxalive is defiantly a site you will want to check out

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Identity- Who Are You Really?, By Brandon Marcel

Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins

How to Be a No-Limit Person by Wayne Dyer

Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale

Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

Goals: Setting and Achieving Them on Schedule by Zig Ziglar

An Interview with Hayward Williams

By Bryon Cherry

This month Bryon sits down with singer/songwriter Hayward Williams:

1) Did it take you awhile to find a distinctive style/voice for your music?

There were many phases that I went through, all of them revolving
around my particular influences of the time. But slowly I developed a
style comfortable to me and my voice, that still would lend a certain
mood and quality to the scope of music I was creating.

2) Have you been in any other bands?

I've been in many different bands, all of which had different degrees of
sincerity. They were fun and were an excellent learning experiences for me,
as far as learning about the music machine is concerned.

3) Which artists would you say have been influential on your songwriting?

I would have to say that, in no particular order... Van Morrison, Ryan
Adams, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits
have all had a profound effect on me.

4) How did you get involved with Peter Mulvey?

Being friends with a fellow cohort of his, Jeffrey Foucault, I had an In.
Jeff told me to send him my first disc and see what he thought and then
move on from there. Once we had chatted a few times, we found that we had
many of the same ideas about music and how it could, and or should be
made. The rest of the partnership pretty much took off from there.

5) Do you enjoy being able to perform by yourself in a singer/songwriter
mode or would you prefer a band?

After leaving a semi-serious band that I had been in for a couple of years
it was clear to me that I missed making noise with people, but that was all
that I missed. As soon as the ball started rolling for me as a singer/songwriter, I knew that this was the right direction. The possibility for making a connection with an
audience in an intimate setting, for me, is much more appealing than
having my ears ring until noon the next day.

6) Were you happy with how the new EP Trench Foot turned out?

Extremely. I had written a particular song (Lazarus) entirely for thepurpose of having the space for Peter (Mulvey) to do his thing and fill in
the gaps. The whole experience itself was very relaxed, and I feel that that
atmosphere was what helped to create a great little piece of music.

7) Did this EP start out with a concept or did it gain one along the way?

I had been reading a book containing letters sent home from soldiers on
the front lines of every major American conflict going back to the Civil
War. Something about the vivid grasp of grammar from boys much younger
than I, was very inspiring. And because of this inspiration, I began
writing the songs that would end up on "trench foot."

8) How do you define success as relating to your music?

There are two kinds of success. One is artistic success, and I feel that
any positive growth in that department is successful. The second is
financial success. I will gage this type, not on the amount of gold
records I have, but whether or not I have to work a day job. Make it any
more complicated than that and you become a compelling episode of "Behind
the Music."

9) Lennon or McCartney?
Oh crap. For the longest time, like most people
in their infancy of total beatles dementia, I was a Paul fan. He was
charming, Cute and accessible and more overly, I couldn't understand why
John was such an ass-hole. But now, having done my homework and watched
the whole anthology straight through and seeing the rise and fall of the
greatest band the world has ever known. I can say with full confidence
that not only am I a Lennon fan, I also would like to point out that he
was a pimp. Not to mention that he just happened to be a lyrical,
eloquent bastard who would never lay down for anybody. There's something
to be said about someone who won't cater to the lowest common
denominator, and goes out of their way to make sure you have to work for
your musical fix. You have to want it, need it, understand it, and be
prepared to even possibly think about it for god sakes... have I rambled
long enough?

Hayward Williams' EP Trench Foot can be bought at www.CDbaby.com and his official website is www.haywardwilliams.com check it out.

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