Country Music Misses Nashville Bound
IVY HOLLOW MEDIA
For Immediate Release
Nashville Bound Explodes onto Country Charts
Is the Internet Now the New Music Source in the USA?
Somewhere in the hallowed halls of country music the Nashville record company A&R executives should be trying to figure out how they missed discovering a new group called Nashville Bound, a hot new band on the country music scene.
The first week after release their hit Margarita You’re Such a Cheater reached #2 on the national internet Country Swing charts (Soundclick) and a second release, No One’s Left Keeping Score reached #30 on the Folk Rock charts. Three more releases followed this week, Photographs in the Country Rockabilly genre, What Life’s All About in the Country Western genre, and Of Thee I Sing in the Christian Country genre.
Not bad for a band with no record label, no agent, no manager and no promoter and somehow this mysterious band has been able to record, mix and master 24 new songs in Nashville studios while staying under the major label radar screen.
The internet is demonstrating the power to let people decide who they want to hear and what they want to hear rather than being force fed the latest and safest choices of the A&R and label execs. No deals have to be made with radio personalities or stations before songs can be heard. No rights are hijacked from song writers, musicians or artists by producers who can “guarantee” air play if you give them publishing and producing rights.
While it is true internet sites offering music are still learning the art of greed and they may yet become like the established institutions in the music business, they still seem to be resisting unscrupulous practices and corruption to a far greater degree than the mainstream music business.
Bands like Nashville Bound, so popular with the general public, would have little chance of being who they are with the labels. Listen to their music. It’s very good, very professional, very tight with very meaningful lyrics. But it is in the Southern Rock, Folk Rock, Country Swing, Rockabilly, Christian and Country Western genres, unacceptable for new bands with the labels.
They would never let a new group crossover into so many styles. Not let them pick the songs for release. Never let them produce the songs or select their own producers. Fact is, they couldn’t even pick their own studios to record no matter how good they might sound.
So the internet has the chance to revolutionize the music industry if it can just prevent itself from letting greed be the primary mission. It can be the only source in America of music the public wants to hear if it can resist the temptation to go after big bucks from the record companies. And it can offer the only honest play list on the airways, a list selected by the listeners and free of promotional distortion, if it can continue to serve the public good rather than the bottom line.
Judge for yourself. Nashville Bound music can be heard at: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=603354
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Contact: Jordan Christopher IvyonOak@yahoo.com
For Immediate Release
Nashville Bound Explodes onto Country Charts
Is the Internet Now the New Music Source in the USA?
Somewhere in the hallowed halls of country music the Nashville record company A&R executives should be trying to figure out how they missed discovering a new group called Nashville Bound, a hot new band on the country music scene.
The first week after release their hit Margarita You’re Such a Cheater reached #2 on the national internet Country Swing charts (Soundclick) and a second release, No One’s Left Keeping Score reached #30 on the Folk Rock charts. Three more releases followed this week, Photographs in the Country Rockabilly genre, What Life’s All About in the Country Western genre, and Of Thee I Sing in the Christian Country genre.
Not bad for a band with no record label, no agent, no manager and no promoter and somehow this mysterious band has been able to record, mix and master 24 new songs in Nashville studios while staying under the major label radar screen.
The internet is demonstrating the power to let people decide who they want to hear and what they want to hear rather than being force fed the latest and safest choices of the A&R and label execs. No deals have to be made with radio personalities or stations before songs can be heard. No rights are hijacked from song writers, musicians or artists by producers who can “guarantee” air play if you give them publishing and producing rights.
While it is true internet sites offering music are still learning the art of greed and they may yet become like the established institutions in the music business, they still seem to be resisting unscrupulous practices and corruption to a far greater degree than the mainstream music business.
Bands like Nashville Bound, so popular with the general public, would have little chance of being who they are with the labels. Listen to their music. It’s very good, very professional, very tight with very meaningful lyrics. But it is in the Southern Rock, Folk Rock, Country Swing, Rockabilly, Christian and Country Western genres, unacceptable for new bands with the labels.
They would never let a new group crossover into so many styles. Not let them pick the songs for release. Never let them produce the songs or select their own producers. Fact is, they couldn’t even pick their own studios to record no matter how good they might sound.
So the internet has the chance to revolutionize the music industry if it can just prevent itself from letting greed be the primary mission. It can be the only source in America of music the public wants to hear if it can resist the temptation to go after big bucks from the record companies. And it can offer the only honest play list on the airways, a list selected by the listeners and free of promotional distortion, if it can continue to serve the public good rather than the bottom line.
Judge for yourself. Nashville Bound music can be heard at: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=603354
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Contact: Jordan Christopher IvyonOak@yahoo.com
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