Middle Class Musician

If you are an indie artist looking for tips on how to book shows and get out on the road more often. This one's for you.

Whitherward is an indie-folk duo that has been on the road full time for the last three years. Like FULL time. Like sell your house and travel around the country "full time".

We chat about house shows, living on the road as an introvert, booking your own shows, the charm of small town shows, sustainability for full time touring, dealing with vocals nodes, experimenting with Patreon, the struggle of trying to be consistent with content and their new album.

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Find the music pros your music deserves at www.nashvilleforhire.com

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Find Whitherward online:

www.youtube.com/whitherwordmusic

https://whitherward.com

Had the chance to sit down with Jake McMullen and chat about his new EP, L.A. vs Nashville, Social media fasting, the ups and downs of show banter, Spotify playlists, fostering individualism as an artist, approaching your music with a sense of play and more!

Check out his new EP here

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This episode is brought to you by Nashville For Hire - the easiest way for you to hire Nashville's best music professionals for your next recording project from anywhere in the world.

Find the music pros your music deserves at www.nashvilleforhire.com

Matt Urmy is the kind of intentional musician we talk about all the time on this show. An artist and an entrepreneur (among other things), Matt brought his wisdom about fueling and balancing the flames of multiple passions, what it was like to grow up in Nashville compared to what it's like now, almost losing his entire album in a tragic house fire, working with 'Cowboy' Jack Clement, the journey of starting Artist Growth and MUCH more.

Check out his new album here:

www.matturmy.com

Check out Artist Growth:

www.artistgrowth.com

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This episode is brought to you by Nashville For Hire - the easiest way for you to hire Nashville's best music professionals for your next recording project from anywhere in the world.

Find the music pros your music deserves at www.nashvilleforhire.com

Nate Dugger came on to talk about playing with Drew Holcomb for well over a decade, building his own home studio, the recording process of Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors' new record "Souvenir", hyper produced albums vs first take style projects, pros and cons of his college experience, accounting (#duh), why his first performance at the Ryman Auditorium was one of his all time favorite shows and much more!

Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors new album drops March 28. Find more details at www.drewholcomb.com

Find Nate Dugger's solo album here

Check out my new side podcast, Musician Builds a Business.

A self documented journey of me starting my new business, Nashville For Hire.

So as I mentioned a few episodes ago, I've been working on creating a website/business called Nashville For Hire. It is a place where people can hire out remote sessions from exclusively Nashville singers, musicians, audio engineers, songwriters, etc.

I decided it would be interesting to document the journey of creating this business and I just started a new podcast called "Musician Builds a Business". The Middle Class Musician podcast will of course continue with the interviews and episodes like it has, this new podcast is just an add on.

In this episode chat I introduce Musician Builds a Business and give you a sample of Part 1.

You can check out the podcast here

This week, I chatted with Kyle Cummings (freelance producer and musician) about how Nashville is changing, the pros and cons of having a home studio / working from home, going to school for music, how people didn't make fun of his name in High School, his philosophy that producing is a "service job" and a whole lot more.

Check him out here:

www.kylecummingsmusic.com and www.mypodcasteditor.co

Discover the 3 things the successful musician does

Special guest this week! Got to chat with Mike McHargue (better known as Science Mike) and had him bring his science knowledge to the topic of music. We chatted about having open and honest discussions about faith, what your brain is doing when you listen to music, left brain vs. right brain inaccurate stereotypes, being creative and also being able to handle your business side as artists, merits and problems with the idea of the "tortured artist", the links between a sexual climax and the climax at the end of a symphony, and a lot more!

Check out his brand new book, Finding God in the Waves, here:

Also be sure to check out his two podcasts, The Liturgists and Ask Science Mike.

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Discover the 3 things the successful musician does

Andrew and Bryce give a deep dive into what's going on in their music careers.

Andrew's new single:

http://www.noisetrade.com/andrewgalucki/im-not-going-anywhere

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Discover the 3 things the successful musician does

A super helpful chat this week with Derek Webb (singer/songwriter and co-founder of Noisetrade) about how Noisetrade began, seeing the music business as niche business, how to use fan data to make a living, using creativity for music and business, giving a better experience to super fans, the benefits of being a "middle class" musician and SO much more!

This episode is brought to you by Nashville For Hire, the easiest way for you to hire Nashville's best music professionals for your next recording project from anywhere in the world.

Find the music pros your music deserves at www.nashvilleforhire.com

Learn more about Derek here:

http://www.derekwebb.com

Check out Noisetrade:

http://www.noisetrade.com

Learn more about the podcast here:

www.mcmpodcast.com

Sat down this week with Joseph DeNatale (singer/songwriter) who's main project is called Faint Peter.

We chatted about living in Seattle, mushroom death suits, "Nashville Songwriting", his album Redoubt, what it means to be "spiritual", how we had nothing to write about as kids, house show tours, working with homeless communities, what themes he writes about most and much more!

Check out his music here: www.faintpeter.com

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www.mcmpodcast.com/3things