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A great opportunity for Indie Recording Artist awaits you! Hi there this is your fiend Jerry Cramer; Donna and I would like to invite you to join us for our special Donna & Jerry Show’s Anniversary Program. It is coming up on Friday October 14th at 8 pm CST and goes till midnight maybe longer. We invite you to visit our main radio website where you can find out all the information about us and the station. This show will be going out before a huge audience around the world. It will be live on CMG Radio and our 30 affiliate online stations as well as to our 25 FM stations here in the USA and to 250 radio stations by live feeds across the globe. If you would like to be a part of that show we will be interviewing artist and playing their tunes that night. We want to give the artist a chance to talk to their fans around the world and to that end we will be also broadcasting via our pal talk chat room so that artists may chat directly with the fans. This is a great opportunity for the independent recording artist. If we are not playing your tunes now then please by all means get them to us and we will put them in our rotations on all of our stations. It is simple to do, just email your songs (as mp3’s) to us along with a brief bio at airplay@cmgradio.info Visit our station at www.cmgradio.info I am in the process of scheduling for this show so if you want to be a part of it and be on live radio contact me for all the details you need. Send an email to me, message me or I prefer you call me at: 940-343-8306 if I am unavailable leave a message and I will return your call ASAP. You may also text me at 940-923-2750 with a number where I may reach you. Donna and I have tried to make this simple for all. Our stations play Indies 24/7. Our show is for country music and blues! The night of the big show you can call our direct radio hot line number at 940-343-8306 so we can chat live over the radio and you can say hi to all of our listeners from around the world. Also some artists are donating things for the show so that we can give them away to our listeners and that will help the artist with promotions. It is all in your ball park if you want airplay and a real team that will help you with your radio image contact me! Finally in closing I want to wish you a great upcoming week end and much success in your music career! You’re Pal: Jerry PS: If you would like to listen to the online Donna & Jerry Show visit our website at the link above and click on the Donna & Jerry Show link in the navigation menu. Other genres may submit songs for airplay to one of our affiliate stations, we do not allow any rap or any hip hop etc with profanity in the songs. This show is for country and or blues artist only! thanks!

So you wrote a song for the first time or perhaps you consider yourself a career songwriter that is all great however times are a changing as they say. Today is not the days of gone by, the days where you could plunk on a guitar or lay down some chords on a piano cut a demo with a singer or some one who couldn’t carry a note and send it in to a publisher for consideration. We live in a new place and time. We are in the day of cell phones and digital transmissions. The day of mp3's, live streaming video and on and on goes the every growing list. Publishers have basically three jobs. (1) Listening to songs (2) Pitching songs to artist (3) Getting songs placed and of course there are several other tasks that go hand in hand with the above three. The days of walking into their office unannounced setting on a chair and pulling your guitar out of case and strumming a song that you wrote and singing it to them is over. Today songs must be written and then they must have a professional demo track produced with the music and the vocals in a good quality package. Now the songwriter demo does not have to be what is called radio ready which cost a lot of money to produce but they still have to be of high demo quality for publishers. We can not pitch anything less to an artist or we will hear sorry I can’t get the feel for that. Artist want to hear what that song might do for them should they wish to record it. It is also a kicker if you also have the music tacks separate for the publisher so that an artist might even try to sing along with it (if it is in their key) to give them even a greater feel for the song. Almost always they will later have it professional recorded with studio musicians for use on their projects. Every month we get hundreds of songs submitted to our publishing company. Every month we place songs with recording artist. Every day we review songs and pitch songs to artist. Our writers vary from the first time songwriter to the professional songwriter. Our writers come from all walks of life, all genres of music and all parts of the world. The one common thread for those that we actually publish is the demo. The one common thread for those we pass on is the demo. That is the difference from getting your songs into the hands of a potential recording artist and from it going unpublished, unheard and unpitched to the artist. What is the publishers prospective? Good songwriters have good quality demos and write great songs! The game is played by home run hitters. Have you hit a home run lately with one of your songs? For more information, assistance or for submissions We invite you to contact us at: bigsugarmusic_bmi@yahoo.com or you may call the Songwriter’s hotline Monday through Friday ..6 pm.. till ..10 pm CST... This line stays pretty busy each night so if you call and get the answering service leave a message your call is tracked on caller ID and your call will be returned in the order it is received. We are one of only a handful of publishers that accepts unsolicited songs. You may submit your songs by visiting www.bigsugarmusic.com the submissions page and follow the guidelines as stated there. Here is wishing you the best as a songwriter! Jerry

" You Cant Make A Dent With A Dud Production" As a Promoter, Publishing Executive, Label Executive, Recording Artist and Songwriter all I can say truly is that "You cant make a dent (in the music business) with a dud production." I receive songs from writers all the time that are poorly put together with bad productions. The day of plunkin' a guitar and singing out of key is over. Music Exec's want to hear first rate productions. If you want an artist to do your material then that artist wants to hear what that song might potentially sound like on the radio. He or she wants to see it in their minds eye making them a hit song and you cant persuade them with a dud demo. Publishers have a hard enough time pitching songs to recording artist without having to jump over the hurdle of a bad production. Publishers want songs that are well produced and well sung so that they might have a shot at some one actually listening to it and actually considering putting it on their next album. Any thing less than a good production will be filed in (File 13) and that I will guarantee you! You might say " well I just don't have the money to make a solid demo!" and that might be true; but until you do make that quality demo you are going to keep plugging away and going absolutely no where. If you believe in your talent and you believe in your songs then believe me you can find the money somewhere. You can not afford to be shy or bashful, ask mom. dad, sister, brother, grand parents, friends, the boss, or any one else you can think of to lend you a helping hand. You just might be surprised who might reach in their pockets and help you see a project through. Have some garage sales, sale stuff on eBay, get rid of that guitar or old amp that's sitting in the closet, just use some common sense and think about it, you can find the money some how and some where. Don't say Bull get off that couch and get the job done! You don't have to go to Nashville, there are plenty of good studio's and great musicians throughout the country who can do just as good a job for a lot less. Our studio gives people top flight recordings and demos every day for far less than you would pay in Music City USA. Some of the best music I ever heard came out of Texas. Smile! I hope you will take to heart what I am telling you in this Blog. I know if you do you can produce some of the best songs on the market and guess what, Publisher, Labels and Artist will stand up and take notice. Won't you do yourself a huge favor and do your music right? Remember " You can make a Dent with a Dud!!!! " Jerry

Music “1st Impressions” are they important? Having spent a life time in the music industry and can tell you for a fact that 1st impressions are the most important impressions you will ever make. Do you want promoters, record Exec’s, publishers and the public (potential fans) to hear your, promote you, record you, publish your songs or buy your music? Of course you do unless you are one of those who do music as a hobby, think your hot stuff (so they will listen) or you just do not care one way or the other. Your first impression is truly all you have! If your presentation is not good then you wont have much of a chance getting another one. I have artist and songwriters ask me all the time to take a look at their sites, their MySpace, their Songclick or some other site they are on and listen to their music and give them my opinion or my assistance. Because I care about this business I always take a look no matter how brief it is and for The most part I give them a reply. Some take it with a grain of salt and stay unprofessional going no where and others take it to heart and go on to be a success. I have visited thousands of sites and listened to thousands of songs and here is a truthful break down of what I have found. About 30% of the artist and songwriters do their home work and spend the quality time to produce a professional song or album and a professional looking site. The other 70 % just throw it up and hope it will work for them. I have listen to some of the worst productions ever here on the Internet. I have visited cheap poorly constructed websites and main promo photos that were terrible; in fact they looked like a three year old took the pictures. Remember the 1st impression? The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, the same is true in the music world; a song is worth millions of dollars if the people will buy it. Why should they listen to poorly produced material and surely they will not buy it or if they do they do it just to have something for themselves and their friends to laugh at. Some of you probably think I am being a little too harsh but the truth is the truth no matter how much you want it watered down. Some fools said that you should not have to pay for things in the music world and if someone asks for you for money they are just scam artist. BULL and thats with a capital B, You do not eat a burger for free, They do not give cars away, No free utilities and so on and so forth. Yes we all know there are sharks out there who will try to scam you and not do a thing to help you except take your money. That is true in any thing you do just look at the diet drugs that do nothing and a whole host of other products and services. I can tell you this the days of sitting in your bed room with an old real to real or cassette and plunking on a guitar while singing in a 10 cent microphone are over. If you are going to be successful today and compete in this great industry you will have to spend some money or get some one to invest in you and your music. You need professional recordings with professional musicians. The band that backs you on the road for the most part are not studio musicians and will not get the job done that needs to be done. I do not want to write a book on this Blog at this time and I will continue in upcoming Blogs about this topic. For now remember that 1st impressions are about the only chance you have at being a success. Take this to heart! If you fall in the 70% move over to the other side and start doing things the right way. I guarantee you that in time you will see the fruits of your money and your labor! Lets all work together to keep the music alive! Jerry