MUMBO JUMBO April 2009
I hope everyone is having an enjoyable spring, wherever you might be in the
world! April happens to be my favorite month in Key West so I’m glad to be
off the road and performing right here at home in the Keys this month. March
was a whirlwind to say the least: seventeen gigs, 4000 miles by road, 6000
by air, a couple bottles of Patron and a few new songs!
The acoustic tour Pete Mayer and I did was great fun for us and we hope you
all enjoyed it as well. We performed in Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey,
Massachusetts and Maine on consecutive nights, and except for the nine inches
of
spring snow in Virginia, everything went great.
The day after we finished in Maine, Pete flew out for a show in St. Louis
and I headed to Los Angeles for some meetings. Ok, there was a little fun
involved. I stayed with my good friends Gavin and Claudia Smith in Santa
Monica
(Claudia let me drive Gavin’s Porsche convertible up the Pacific Coast
Highway on a gorgeous Sunday morning!). They are human dynamos and
enthusiastic
and knowledgeable music fans (I was in Scotland last year at their wedding).
Gavin is also a marketing whiz and the CEO of NRG Marketing in Los Angeles.
One reason I flew out there was to sit down and get some serious advice from
him about marketing and generally improving my entire business plan.
I’m very fortunate to be getting consistent national airplay on Radio
Margaritaville. We see the direct results in CD sales and from the great
reaction
from all of you at my more than 150 shows per year. Thank you for that!
However, I’ve come to realize that my marketing, promotion and touring
hasn’t
quite kept up with the increased exposure and number of new listeners we are
getting around the country. To put it simply, I am a bit of a
technological dinosaur and needed some help in joining the 21st century!
SO, over the next few months we will be focusing on modernizing and building
a far more comprehensive and updated database in order to do a better job of
keeping you all apprised of shows, releases and news. We will be
redesigning and consolidating all of the online marketing tools, such as the
web site
and MySpace page, etc., making my songs available on ITunes and expand touring
dates to try to get out to new parts of the country in the coming year,
including more dates in the Midwest and western part of the country, as well as
designing some brand new merchandise and RECORDING A NEW CD, so stay tuned for
the changes and improvements and I hope we can do a better job of staying in
touch!
Russ Kunkel to produce new CD, “ROW ME HOME”
My other reason for going to LA last month was to meet with Russ Kunkel to
nail down the dates and details of a brand new recoding project! On May 25,
we will begin recording a fresh batch of songs in Los Angeles and I am
ecstatic to be working with such a good friend and legendary and talented
drummer,
producer and songwriter. You may know Russ from his recent release,
RIVAGE, on Mailboat Records, his numerous producer credits from Jimmy Buffett
to
Crosby, Stills and Nash, to Carly Simon and beyond. He has co-written dozens
of songs you have all heard and is one of the most recorded drummers of the
last four decades. His credits are literally too lengthy to mention!
I have known Russ for over a dozen years and the prospect of collaborating
with him on “Row Me Home” is really exciting for me. I so enjoyed writing
“
The Smallest of Islands” with him years ago and by the second glass of wine
at
lunch at his favorite Thai restaurant in LA last month, we had already come
up with a new song, “Women and Grapes,” which I have been working on while
Russ is in Europe with Lyle Lovett. I wish all songs were as fun to write as
this one!
There will also be some other great players involved in the project, which I’
ll talk more about next month!
April Shows
As I mentioned earlier, all my shows are in the Keys this month so please
check the web site for times and places. I’ll be up at Snappers in Key Largo
f
or a few nights and at The Pier at The Ocean Key House with Dave Edmisten and
will be performing for a week at Little Palm Island solo. What an amazing
spot! Dave and I close out the month at The Margaritaville Cafe for the
annual Key West Songwriters Festival (April 28 thru May 3) with special guest
Elsie May Larson-Kunkel. Mac McAnally will also be in town for an early show
on Saturday May 2nd. This always proves to be a great week of music!
That’s it for now. I’m flying to beautiful Harbor Island in the Bahamas
early in the morning for four days of R & R with some friends from Key West and
will catch up with you soon! Thanks for listening and hope to see you in
the Keys this month!
Scott
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Terry Lederer
Little Flock Music
Artist Services
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