Left Of Nashville: A Music Documentary |DIY| Songwriting| Indie Music

Left Of Nashville: A Music Documentary |DIY| Songwriting| Indie Music

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  • Season 2, Ep.19: The Song A Week (Sort Of) Experiment--Behind The Scenes
    This is the first time in 19 weeks that I have not made my deadline of releasing the podcast late Sunday night/early Monday morning. And I beat myself up about it for a couple of days. It put me in a foul mood and I immediately felt like a failure.   Then I decided to get over it. “It’s all about the song” as they say and while I wasn’t able to put this out in a week’s time, I got pretty damn close. And I felt like I was on to something with this one. So if it took a little longer to get it right, then so be it. A better song makes for a better episode and that was my focus instead of adhering to some self-imposed deadline.   I had the main skeleton of ‘Behind The Scenes” written two or three weeks ago. But I really didn’t start arranging it and whittling it down until last week.   In episode 5 of this season, I talked about Impostor Syndrome as it pertains to our career goals. But it creeps into our personal lives as well. We tend to look at others and their relationships and think that they have it all figured out, while we are over here floundering, hanging on by a thread.   I ran into this beautiful woman that I have known since we were kids. She was one of those girls growing up that was “out of my league” in my mind--unattainable. We were always friendly to one another but the thought of any romantic involvement was outside the realm of possibility. In fact, she scared the hell out of me to be honest.   I didn’t date in high school. I was a late bloomer and was always afraid of my own shadow growing up. It wasn’t until my late twenties and early thirties that I started taking risks.   So when I ran into this woman, who is even more gorgeous now, we started catching up. It turns out that she was going through a transition in her life. So I went out on a limb and took the chance that I had always been afraid to do for so many years.   And as we got to talking, it turns out that she had always had a crush on me too and even stated that I never noticed her in school but it was nice that I did now.  Well, needless to say, you could’ve knocked me over with a feather.   It’s not like I intended to write a song about this but hey, you write what you know, right? And what I know is that sometimes you just never know. “You just never know” could be an alternate title for this one.   So this revelation coupled with my constant battle with ‘Impostor Syndrome’ became the impetus of my next song.   I was goofing around with this fingerpicking thing and I just really liked the feel of it. I  was messing with this A chord formation and then took it to a G then immediately to a D. This simple progression had this really nice release of tension to it.   Then I just started singing these nonsense lyrics over it to try to build a melody. I call these “scrambled egg” lyrics which comes from Paul McCartney when he was writing ‘Yesterday.’ As he was writing it, he would sing the words ‘scrambled eggs’ before he came up with the word “yesterday” to build the melody.   And just as with ‘Any Other Way,’ the words just came. I was thinking about how clueless I am sometimes when it comes to relationships and I just blurted out the lines “I watch what other people do to try to learn a thing or two, but I just can’t seem to get it right."   I’ve been called morose as both a person and a songwriter and maybe I am. I think I’m a pretty happy guy but I do gravitate toward sad songs. Patty Griffin, whose songs can make me literally sob, is the best at this and is one of my favorite songwriters on the planet. Check out her song, ‘When It Don’t Come Easy.’ If that song doesn’t move you, you had better check your pulse.   So I like songs with depth. For a song to hold my interest, there has to be some sort of conflict. That’s what makes for a compelling story. And even if the song doesn’t end with a nice little bow tied around it, I at least want a glimmer of hope at the end.  I am an optimist no matter how much I have been pegged over the years as a sad sack.   So that’s why the first verse ends with “But maybe tonight.” I knew immediately after throwing that in there that I would repeat the first verse at the end of the song. It is unresolved both musically and lyrically but there is that hope.   To be a good songwriter, we must be observant. Marty Dodson talks about being a sponge, taking note of everything. And this has made me careful about what I consume. I mean, garbage in, garbage out. I think that my songs are naturally a good fit for sync licensing due in large part to the number of independent art films that I have consumed over the years.   So without being pretentious about it, I try to take in a ton of media that inspires me. And for me, this usually isn’t summer blockbuster movies or mainstream music for that matter with one dimensional storylines and lackluster dialogue or lyrics.   I became obsessed with the first season of the podcast Serial, which is the true life story of a teenager who was quite possibly wrongly convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend. I know, talk about morose, right? Then I found the podcast “Undisclosed” which is hosted by a team of lawyers dissecting this case, trying to get the conviction overturned.   And that’s where I believe that the lyrics for the chorus came about. While trying to write the chorus, I went to a minor chord that walks up to the major. Then the lines, “I fall in love with lovers walking in the rain, there’s no sign of struggle, no evidence of pain.” just came out. Using sign of struggle and evidence peppered in a love song was the perfect counterbalance to the “lovers walking in the rain” line.   I didn’t intend to write a waltz but that’s what happened. And looking back, this gave the song a nice bounce to give the song a lighter feel. A waltz is not exactly a recipe for a hit song but I’m not writing for Nashville here. These songs are mine. I am in service of the song, nothing else. And besides, Elliott Smith wrote a ton of songs in 3/4 time and I love them.   So I laid down two acoustic guitar parts and hard panned them. And just like with “Any Other Way,” I searched for a nice bed to give a spacey feel. I found this preset that has this harmonica sound. I’m not the biggest fan of the harmonica as an instrument, but this gave the song both a spacey and a rootsy feel to it.   Then I messed around with a guitar part to put in the middle and found another tremolo setting. This wasn’t intentional but I noticed after playing the song in another position on the guitar, it sounded like the intro to Jeff Buckley’s ‘Lover You Should Have Come Over.’ I’m a huge fan of Buckley and this little happy accident had me overjoyed.   Then I laid down my lead and harmony vocals. I originally had an extra chorus come in after the first verse but decided to change that to two verses, then the chorus. So I just went in and cut out the extra chorus and pieced the song back together.   With this song being a waltz, I decided not to write a bridge but rather do a simple guitar solo. I just laid down one solo part this time and duplicated it instead of recording it twice. But I did hard pan them. The reason for not recording it twice is that I found an effect that would ping from left to right in the speakers. So I wanted the guitar parts to be exact. The notes were a little too piercing so I played around with another effect to use on one side that had a warmer tone to it. It turned out perfectly.   I really hate that I wasn’t able to release this episode on time, but I believe it was worth it.   Brandon Barnett: Left Of Nashville EP   How To Get Noticed In The Music Industry When You're A Nobody (Like Me) An Ebook   Patty Griffin--'When It Don't Come Easy'   Jeff Buckley-'Lover, You Should've Come Over'  
    15 min
  • Season 2, Ep.18: The Song A Week Experiment--Any Other Way
    For my next collection of songs, I wanted them to be even more stripped down than the Left Of Nashville EP if that’s even possible. Simplicity is beautiful. And honesty is simple. But that doesn’t mean that honesty is easy. Boiling a point down to its bare essentials isn’t easy, whether that’s musically or lyrically.    I envision this next batch of songs as early Elliott Smith in outer space. I want to blend acoustic music with dreamy soundscapes. I want a desert night drive kind of feel to these songs. And in order to do that, less is more.   'Any Other Way’ was written in July in almost one sitting. My girlfriend had just broken up with me and this was an open letter to her. This was one of those rare occasions where it just fell out of the sky. The guitar part, lyrics and melody happened simultaneously. The sentence, “I can’t do it any other way” just came out. And it just went on from there. I wasn’t thinking about song craft at all.    As much as I love clever wordsmiths such as Conor Oberst or Adam Duritz, that’s not where I am. Dabbling in country music has effected the way I write my personal songs. And I have an affinity for conversational lyrics.    I knew this was going to be a short and simple song. Like I said, this was an open letter, so this was no time to use flowery words and imagery. I just wanted to get my point across.   “I can’t do it any other way” was my way of saying that “this is who I am.” "Music is what I do.” To have someone go from being my biggest cheerleader to turning on a dime and basically saying that they didn’t believe in me, left me more shocked than angry. So this isn’t an angry song. And I think it does a good job of expressing both my confusion as well as my resolve to seeing this thing music thing through.     This is probably one of the most honest and vulnerable songs I have ever written. And it almost wrote itself. The chorus was the only thing that I really had to work on. Initially, it didn’t hook enough. But I had enough of the song that I liked to record a rough video on my computer and throw it on Facebook. I just had to get it off my chest and put it out there, somewhere, anywhere.   A little hack that I have learned to make simple lyrics not boring is to use internal rhymes. Not only will they make a lyric more interesting, they also make for writing better melodies.    

     

    13 min
  • Season 2, Ep.17--The Final Act Of Season 2: A Time To Pivot
    Let me start out this one by giving you a little bit of an inside look at the production side of Left Of Nashville.    When I begin a season, I try to have some episodes banked to relieve some of the pressure of only having a week to produce an episode. In the first season, I only had three episodes in the can before I launched. This season, I had six.   But it always catches up with me. As you know, trying to have a career in music is ever fluctuating. There are times when so much is going on, that I have trouble keeping up with everything that is happening. I have more than enough content to last me for weeks of episodes. Then, it’s like a ghost town. I find myself waiting on a song to get placed or hoping that something happens in Nashville.   That’s when I cover tactical subjects. And it works out, because it adds variety to the show while still having the main thread of the show in tact.    So when I start a season, I know how it is going to begin, but I have no clue how it is going to end. It can be pretty stressful. In the first season, this was another reason  I ended it when I did. But this season, I’ve learned to trust myself a little more, knowing that I will find a way to get an episode out without missing a week. I’ve finally found my groove with this thing.   And I think that an unforeseen benefit for you as a listener when I run through the runway that I’ve given myself with banked episodes is that the shows are more current. Starting with episode 8 of this season, I would produce it the same week it aired.   My original plan with Season 2 was to have twenty episodes, then take a month off at most before launching the third season featuring LOLO. Well, here we are at 17. After ep.16, I didn’t know what I was going to do for the final four episodes. I was hoping that I would have a song placed by now. I mean, I really wanted to go out with a bang. And I’m also having so much fun this season that I’m not ready to end it yet.   I realize that I’ve been resting on my laurels. I’m waiting to be picked. I’m waiting on Any Day to get placed or ’The State I’m In’ to take off. I’m talking a lot about making music in the podcast but I’m not making any. I need to get back to the ‘doing things’ side of the ‘do things and tell people’ equation.   So I’ve decided for the third act of this season of Left Of Nashville, to write and record a collection of new songs and take you along with me for the ride. I have a handful songs of various stages of completion that you’ve heard bits and pieces of already.   So taking a page out of Jordan Woods-Robinson book of his ‘Songs On Sunday’ project, I am going to write and record a song a week. I won’t have the final mix done in that time but I think I can have a mix good enough to release for the podcast.   This will allow me to build my body of work and have you keep me accountable. By announcing this on the podcast and having you with me week to week, it puts a ton of pressure on me to get it done. One of the fears that I’ve always had of writing for Nashville was whether or not I could write multiple songs on a schedule. So this will be a nice exercise to test out whether or not I can write under pressure.    Left Of Nashville   Brandon Barnett-Left Of Nashville EP    

     

    11 min
  • Season 2, Ep.16: Dealing With Rejection Without Burning Bridges: The Pivot Hack

     

    This topic will tie a nice little bow on some of the things I have covered in previous episodes such as networking, finding our tribe, having multiple things going, doing things/telling people and picking yourself.   In order to be able to live our dream and make music for a living, we will have to get out of our warm and cozy confines and go out into the big bad world with our art. And this is scary. Whether it’s talking to decision makers at publishing companies, self-releasing our music or even just admitting to others that "yeah, I’m a songwriter." We have to stick our necks out.   And we often forget that the world isn’t waiting with baited breath for us to release our latest masterpiece. Most people don’t care. I don’t think that we realize how much convincing that we are going to have to do for others to take us seriously. People can be flaky. And people in the music industry…even flakier. A lot of people don’t have follow-through. People say one thing and do another. Or don’t do anything at all.   We know that we have to put in the work and build things. Then, we have to tell people about it. But no one is going to give you a gold star because you tried something, because you wrote some songs and put them into the world. A lot of people write songs and put them into the world. And a lot of them are terrible or mediocre. First, we have to get good. We have to hone our craft.   Okay, let’s assume that we’ve done that. Then, we start telling people about our work. Some people will get behind us, others will not. Not everyone likes Left Of Nashville. Not everyone likes “Your Everloving Arms.” And that’s okay. If enough people start to give us positive feedback and after a period of time, we still like what we’ve produced, then we can assume that it’s pretty much up to snuff. Or at least close.   So then we start looking for channels through which to promote. It might be calling on publishers or getting friends in the industry to introduce us to people. It might be blogging about it, starting a podcast, or using social media. We go to meet ups or writer’s nights to get the word out.   Okay, so now we’ve got our craft down and we are promoting it. This is when we start meeting people and building our network. We are looking for ways to add value to the people we come in contact with and things are starting to roll. With all these new connections, opportunities start to become available. Revisit the episodes of this season with Lauren Pritchard and Jordan Woods-Robinson in particular to watch these relationships evolve. I mention these two specifically because the podcast documents these relationships in their beginning stages.   So now, we have a small body of work that we can be proud of, people are starting to become aware of us and we are building relationships through which opportunities arise.   But here’s the thing. On Left Of Nashville, you are only aware of the people who said “yes.” I only showcase the people with whom I’ve built relationships. But there are just as many or more people that I have reached out to that either didn’t respond or told me that they would do certain things and then didn’t follow through.    

     

     

     

        And it’s the same thing with songwriting. I’ve been turned down or ignored numerous times when I would reach out to write with people. The key to handling rejection with grace (at least in my situation) is to be able to pivot when things don’t go your way. My publisher at one of the newspapers I worked for used to tell us reporters, “Have a backup for your backup."   Remember what Brent Baxter said about how to get a good publishing deal? “Insert Quote”  Having options is a beautiful thing in this business. And you are going to have to get creative with it. Think about what you will do if one thing falls through. What are you doing to do next? Because believe me, things are going to fall through. But if you have other options, you will not waste valuable time getting upset when someone inevitably fails to follow through on a promise. And if you keep your cool, sometimes those people come back around and want to help.   Sometimes, they just didn’t manage their time properly and it fell through the cracks. But the main thing is for you to have a backup so that you don’t run the risk of burning a bridge. Just don’t take it personally. It’s easier said than done, but that’s why I suggest having many options. It is a terrific hack that I have discovered to keep my emotions in check. I’m so busy executing on my plan B that I’m not even studying those people anymore.     But as our body of work grows, our reputation will start to precede us. And that’s when the tide will start to turn. We will get more yes’s than no’s. People will want to work with us.   So I hope this episode illustrates how the many tactics we have talked about throughout Left Of Nashville culminates into a hack to keep our emotions in check when dealing with rejection. So to recap:   1)Put in the work-hone your craft. Get good. 2)Get the word out about it-Tell people 3)Build relationships-Opportunites will come out of that 4)Have many things going on to give yourself options If a thing falls through-don’t get upset and burn bridges…pivot and work your plan b or c.   Left Of Nashville   Brandon Barnett: Left Of Nashville EP   Jordan Woods-Robinson   LOLO (Lauren Pritchard)   Man Vs. Row (Brent Baxter)  
    15 min
  • Season 2, Ep.15: Pick Me! Pick Me! A Look At Dating From The Left Of Nashville

    In this episode of Left Of Nashville, I talk about the struggles of dating when you're a musician on the come up. 

    I’m six months out of my previous relationship and I’ve been out and about. And I’ve met some women in this time…women who seemed genuinely interested…that is until they find out about my financial situation.    And look I get it, you can’t expect to attract a quality woman when you’re in the doldrums, when you’re at rock bottom. But my situation has improved markedly since Episode One of this season. I’m no Rockefeller here, but I’m getting back on my feet with my current financial situation and my dreams are becoming even closer to being a reality: The podcast is taking off, things are moving with my music in L.A. and Nashville, not to mention all the people that I have been working with of late. Life is starting to get good on the planet for me. BUT, I’m still in this weird limbo place with everything.   But being a broke musician on the come up still doesn’t carry the same weight as say, a broke pre-med student. The broke musician thing is the kiss of death. It doesn’t seem to matter how much you are hustling, or how much progress you are making, it’s not enough.   So if I were a 40 year-old wanna be musician with no hustle, with no progress being made, no licensing deals in the queue who was just bumming around getting stoned and drunk all the time, I wouldn’t date me either. I’ve already mentioned in the Crabs In The Bucket episode that I won’t even associate with THOSE dudes.    I’m not that guy. I’m building a business here. But you’ve got to scratch the surface to find out those things about me. I’m not going to bend over backwards to try to assure every woman that I meet, that I’m not THAT guy. I’m not going to start blabbing about all the things that I have going on. Because that comes off as bragging.   I stumbled upon an article in Digital Music News written by Gaetano, a singer, songwriter, producer and guitarist based in New York, who oddly enough, has been documenting his music industry experiences in his blog. Sound familiar? I’ll link it up in the show notes. The article was entitled:   Why Dating As A Musician Is So Hard   So I have recently come to some conclusions about my situation.  I talk a lot about not raising your hand asking for people to pick you in your music career. I rail against the idea that I can’t make a living from my music unless some suit picks me. But no man is an island. The reality is that whether we are after a publishing deal, trying to gain 1,000 True Fans, or building an audience for our podcast, we DO need people to PICK US. But there is a mindset shift when we “PICK OURSELVES.” We put our art into the world and the rest be damned. Sure, we want an audience, but when we come from an abundance mindset rather than a scarcity mindset, everything changes. We have a confidence that is attractive. And while this is something that I have been working on professionally, I realized that in my personal life, that I am still looking for someone to pick me.   Being a struggling musician on the come up may actually be a blessing in disguise. Being broke is actually a great litmus test to see who I want to invest my time in. When the topic eventually comes up about what I do and my financial situation with women that I meet, I immediately bring up the podcast. I tell them that if they really want to know what I’m about—and all the things that I’m doing to better myself, that they should listen to the podcast. I give them a certain episode to start with. I’ve even subscribed them to the podcast on their phones.   Because I know that if I were really interested in a woman, and she had her life documented online, I would jump at the chance to get to know her better without investing a ton of time. Hell, I wish all the women I meet had a documentary podcast. That would be way better than investing a year’s worth of my life before finding out someone isn’t right for me.   So if a woman can’t at least invest twenty minutes to listen to one episode, then I know that I’m not willing to spend my valuable time getting to know her. So Left Of Nashville has become this dating tool for me to weed out the undesirables.   So I’ve decided to “PICK ME” in my personal life as well. I won’t always be broke and as hard as the last two years have been, I’ve got a pretty fun and interesting life. I’ve achieved a lot of things and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. And I need to respect myself enough to not just let anyone into my weird little world.   Why Dating As A Musician Is So Hard   Digital Music News   Left Of Nashville   Brandon Barnett: Left Of Nashville EP   How To Get Noticed In The Music Industry When You're A Nobody (Like Me): An Ebook      
    17 min
  • Season 2, Ep.14: We Are The Music Makers
    In the last episode of Left Of Nashville, I talked about Kevin Kelly’s blog '1,000 True Fans.’ It’s basically the theory that an artist can make a pretty nice living from 1,000 fans who will purchase everything that they produce.   But how do we go about this? Well for starters, we should do things and tell people. This will not only help you to reach 1,000 true fans, it will also increase your chances of bringing serendipity or luck into your life.    If you remember Episode 6 from the first season of LON, I talked about connecting the dots and how seemingly meaningless things would later connect to game changing events. It’s all about putting pins on the map. Do things, tell people.   Aaron Francis has done things and told people. He is the creator of the Music Makers Podcast. I featured an episode of The Music Makers in the Crabs In A Bucket episode.   I found Aaron’s podcast when it was on New and Noteworthy in iTunes and I became a fan. After the 1,000 True Fans episode, it became evident that I needed to talk about how one might acquire true fans as well as get noticed by movers and shakers. Then I remembered two episodes of The Music Makers, episode 1, entitled “Do Things, Tell People” and a companion episode called Luck Surface Area.   And this is where things get really meta, I mean talk about serendipity. I reached out to Aaron about featuring these two episodes in this episode. I just think that it helps if you hear other people besides me having these theories. Later that day, I listened to the newest episode of The Music Makers, where Aaron announced that that day’s episode would be his final one, at least for now.    So I decided that I would use this occasion to pay tribute to one of my favorite podcasts, while explaining how to increase your fanbase and your luck. These episodes stuck in my mind after all these months, and I decided to reference them here, all because Aaron did things and told people. This is the perfect example of how to get your art to make an impression on people. Like I said, this is pretty meta and trippy.   Not to mention the irony of using a podcast called The Music Makers (which isn’t about music at all) in my MUSIC DOCUMENTARY podcast to help me make a point.   The Music Makers   Left Of Nashville   Brandon Barnett--Left Of Nashville EP   How To Get Noticed In The Music Industry When You're A Nobody (Like Me): An Ebook
    22 min
  • Season 2, Ep.13: 1,000 True Fans--The Market Has Changed

    In the last episode of Left Of Nashville, Brent Baxter talked about how everything has changed in this age of Spotify as it pertains to publishing deals in Nashville. Songwriters are either hugely successful or they don’t make enough to live on. There is no middle ground.

    The internet has fragmented everything. It is easier than ever to get our music produced and out to the world. And that means there is more music than ever available for consumption. AND that means people’s attention spans are even shorter. This is an on-demand economy. If people want psychedelic polka music in today’s world, they can find it.    The market has changed. It just has. And outside of getting hits on country artists or having a slash in your title, I don’t have a solution for the Nashville-only songwriter. So this episode is for the independent artists who want to put their music out themselves.   In 2008, Kevin Kelly of Wired Magazine posted a blog entitled ‘1,000 True Fans’ that went viral. It is still quoted today and in my opinion was the catalyst that empowered tons of people (myself included) to become creative entrepreneurs.   A True Fan is a fan who will purchase everything you produce. If you could get 1,000 fans who would spend $100.00 per year with you, that's a $100,000 yearly income.   So here are some things to consider if you want to go this route: 1) Aloof, brooding, pretentious singer-songwriters need not apply. You must interact with your fans. Be a human being. I know that there has been a marketing strategy for years from record labels that artists should distance themselves from their fans to add mystique, but I believe those days are over. People want to connect. And now that connecting is just a “reply” button away, ignoring your supporters is the fastest way to become a douche nozzle in their eyes. Authenticity is the name of the game.   2) You are going to have to put out content for your audience to spend $100.00 a year with you. You are going to have to produce music and merchandise to make this work. This is what I have been working on starting with the Left Of Nashville EP. But I’m going to have to produce more than four songs to get to 100.00. I want T-shirts for the podcasts, stickers, music. But this takes time and work. Lots of work.   3) You have to build a fanbase in the first place. And this will take time. And again, you will have to release content to start building a fanbase. So, put stuff out as often as you can. You can’t wait until you have a $100.00 worth of product to deliver if you have no one to deliver it to. So this will be a slow build of releasing content and getting the word out. Then do it again. And again. Eventually, the snowball will grow and you will have both an impressive body of work and enough people that will want to consume it. That’s my theory anyway. And that’s exactly what I’m in the middle of doing right now.    1,000 True Fans-Kevin Kelly   Left Of Nashville   Brandon Barnett: Left Of Nashville EP   How To Get Noticed In The Music Industry When You're A Nobody (Like Me): An Ebook
    14 min
  • LON EP.12: Brent Baxter From Man Vs. Row—The Truth About Publishing Deals In Today's World and The Multi-Hyphenate Songwriter

    Brent Baxter is a Nashville songwriter with cuts by Randy Travis, Lady Antebellum, Joe Nichols, Ray Stevens and most notably, the top five hit 'Monday Morning Church' for Alan Jackson. He is also a songwriting coach and his blog “Man Vs. Row,” helps amateur songwriters turn pro.

    Brent drops some truth bombs about "making it" in Nashville as a commercial songwriter. He talks about the importance of having a "dash" in your title, such as songwriter-singer, songwriter-producer, songwriter-barista, etc.

    He wants to give dreamers some reality so that we can dream but also plan our careers so that we can have longevity in the game.

    He also talks about the going rate given to new songwriters with publishing deals. 18 for 18: $18,000 for an 18 month contract. According to Baxter, the way to get the best publishing deal possible is to not need one...that is to do a lot yourself. We need to have a lot going on already in order to demand a higher rate from a publisher.

    Brent moved from Arkansas to Nashville as a lyrics only songwriter. He also got the 'Monday Morning Church' cut before he landed a publishing deal.

    Man Vs. Row

    Alan Jackson with Patty Loveless performing Monday Morning Church

    Left Of Nashville

    Brandon Barnett Left Of Nashville EP

    19 min
  • Season 2, Ep.11: Still Crazy After All These Years--The War Of Time And Money

    In this episode, Brandon talks about the balance of having enough time and money to pursue one's dream. An unexpected job offer causes him to reflect on the past two years. 

    Brandon talks about he left his career two years ago to allow for more time to pursue music. The one year of focused intensity led to more progress than the "nibbling around the edges" he had done in the six years prior. 

    But it came at a cost. Forward movement is essential. He realized that it is going to take twice as long and be twice as difficult as originally thought.

    So we must start immediately. Whether we are working full-time or go all in, we have to find a way to build momentum.

    The job offer caused some reflection on whether or not he would do it the same way if he had it to do over.

    Brandon Barnett: Left Of Nashville EP

     

    Left Of Nashville

     

    How To Get Noticed In The Music Industry When You're A Nobody Like Me: An Ebook

    14 min
  • Season 2, Ep.10: The SOSstudio Experiment: L.A. Time Pt.2

    In this episode, Jordan Woods-Robinson discusses the various services offered by SOSstudio. He explains how his recording service began as a personal project to write, record and release one song per week. 

    He covers how the recording process works as well as the nuts and bolts of the fees for indie artists looking to self-release their material as well as SOSstudio's recent foray (thanks to yours truly and 'L.A. Time') into demo recording.

    And we end the episode with the finished demo of 'L.A. Time.'

    iTunes

    SOSstudio

    [email protected] 

    SOSstudio Sessions (A Podcast)

    Brandon Barnett Left Of Nashville EP

    Left Of Nashville

    20 min

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Documentary podcast where a struggling musician learns from hit writers for Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney and entrepreneurs (Seth Godin). Follow the journey of how to be successful doing what you love.…