Bugg Stories vol. 10

cheryl blackmon is like a lot of people in nashville he came here from north carolina to be a songwriter rote ago one percent of various billionaires are you in love with writing are you in love with the idea of being rather than when i thought about it pretty powerful white men decided the business side of the industry would be his best bet he got his music degree from belmont university and logs and well spent years at the nashville songwriters association answering questions in giving advice to the gas is more than twenty thousand songwriters today blackman is one of a growing number of independent song collectors so potter represents a writer's catalog writers who write for big companies like sony tree or universal music editor sixty riders a company they've only got forty and how spoilers they're just not going to get their sales pitch as much as they would like to especially if they're not be the marquee writer who is as a flyer the month so they would hire someone like myself to come in go through a catalog and keep active the pitcher in the song put his work on

retainer no salary there are benefits just on the reputation for getting great songs into the hands of the right people some bloggers are parts salesman part cheerleader and part detective this business of global opinions award to get as close to the artist as i can get that's the opinion no and bypass also i can live with it but they get shot down six figures before that that's kind of tough forcefully i know enough artist directly that i can do a while one garth brooks birth control his manager and towers producer and i know garfunkel but i know a little vulnerable like women and have guards home phone number then after twenty years and music row he knows enough numbers to have gotten cuts by leann rimes john michael montgomery jobs it's b

is it still short pitch to george's accountant here it's a pier into a pitch to i think she proved pretty much put in his mail slot or sold them and eat when he came out for business he picked stuff open from a canal pitch to anybody i can get a song to mistresses bus drivers you want keepers whatever community we we do we get a bluegrass senate thursday morning by quinn pops by the officer the calculate the vice president for ar at atlantic records dressed in a white t shirt and jeans currently spends a potential single for a new country group called south sixty five they're in a studio photographer songs destined for radio play was then shows all ah mr todd in his head and tapping his grave site

he hit stop the next cd he hit stop we get it for the next one he have hardly as blackmon for a coffee like that as they say in the business it's close to i mean this all sixty thousand workers without id to vote to young girls a lot and quickly flip through the pages of this three inch thick leather cd hope for the pressure is on to find something to get school easier than two minutes later it really is that it will solve both say softness of the same old blackmon promise is truly a copy of the song he leaves relieved this isn't secure business he says no one saw it i get it in november ninety eight and sits atop probably have pitched in over two hundred

people have liked to have kept it has been will close a couple times but hasn't recorded it but i'm still a key pitch and reasonably that indicates a partner cheryl blackmon for national public radio an er it you know