Hey, head’s up, I had to temporarily delete many of my songs from streaming platforms. I opted for all these “extra” features from my distribution service when I first streamed the songs. These extras included Shazam & tracking song usage in YouTube videos. Though they only cost a little more per song per year, it’s starting to add up $$$. The only way to get rid of the extra features is to completely delete the songs. If some of my material disappears from Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, etc,, I want to reassure you that I’ll be uploading them again soon. This time, without these little costly extras. Absolutely nobody has Shazammed my songs, or used it in their YouTube Video, so it’s silly to continue to pay over $100 per year. Especially in this environment of economic inflation.
While in the process of going through my catalog, I came across this, one of the first I self-recorded and released. It was about 4 years ago. The photo is from then. I look older now, brunette, salty even. But it is true to the time. The song was actually written way back, about 1999, but only played a handful of times. Fast forward to about 2018. I tried to find a producer to record new and older un-recorded material. All my leads ghosted me. This one guy even told me I can’t really sing. However, another really sweet guy (he’s produced Big Thief) encouraged me to self-record. I already had this software Cubase, so kind of hunkered down and learned the bare minimum for this production. I played all the tracks, and sang the harmonies, too.
While in the process of going through my catalog, I came across this, one of the first I self-recorded and released. It was about 4 years ago. The photo is from then. I look older now, brunette, salty even. But it is true to the time. The song was written in about 1999, but only played a handful of times. Fast forward to about 2018. I tried to find a producer to record new and older un-recorded material. My producers leads ghosted me. This one guy basically told me I can’t really sing. However, another really sweet guy (he’s produced Big Thief) encouraged me to self-record. I already had this software Cubase, so kind of hunkered down and learned the bare minimum for this production. I played all the tracks, and sang the harmonies, too.