about Born in the U.S.A. “To understand that song, you’ve got to hold two contradictory thoughts at once: that you can feel betrayed by your country and still love it.”
— Bruce Springsteen
Here are the posts that have appeared in the New Music Lives Group on Facebook this week...
• Songwriting Survival Kit— Articles from Songwriting Magazine.UK— Here's a 'Great!' collection of articles with teaching, techniques, tips and tools for your Songwriting experience. These folks drill down in process, gear and more. Fun-Learning at it's very best.
• 'Oh, Pretty Woman’ A Reason To Smile from DanRather's steady. substack .com — Orbison, who wrote the song with his friend and collaborator Bill Dees, says he was inspired by his beautiful wife Claudette.
• 99% Of Musicians STILL Don't Know The Basics Of Music Business from Terence Fisher on YouTube— Many musicians focus solely on their craft, but this video highlights that understanding how the music works is crucial. Learn essential music business tips to navigate your career effectively. Cultivate the right mindset and bolster your music marketing strategies to succeed and learn how to make money from music!
• This Issue is KILLER. Don't miss a Coffee with Bruce Springsteen. Best one so far!!!
• Love and Thanks to Tatum Quinn for the turn on to this from Ozzy...
• How to Promote Music Releases in 2025: A Realistic Guide for Independent Artists from Cyber PR Music— Releasing singles every 5–6 weeks is a solid 2025 strategy. Here’s how to promote your music and build lasting fan bonds beyond Spotify.
• This week on the MUBUTV Music Business Insider Podcast, the guys are joined by Ashanti Abdullah— touring veteran and founder of Ternwheel, the revolutionary platform making live touring more profitable and stress-free for artists & crews alike. You'll learn How Ashanti’s Ternwheel is reshaping the future of music tours.
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• Every Music Artist, like Bad Bunny is a Local Resident of Somewhere and Can Have Major Impact! from sociallydrivenmusic. substack .com— Vol. 1: “While the Corporate Music Industry Sleeps Through Unimaginable Red Flags”. A Weekly Series.
• Bruce Springsteen in TIME magazine— the story of Springsteen is more than the scale of his success. He occupies a rarefied place in American life, maintaining an authenticity rare for a performer of his reach, even as he grapples with the contradictions of his existence. Springsteen is a tribune for the working class who became fabulously rich; a restless outsider who is a rooted family man; and the rock star who has seemingly everything but still wrestles with shadows he cannot shake.
• 10 Mistakes that Peg You as an Amateur Songwriter from SongTown on YouTube±— In this week’s SongTown Songwriting Podcast episode, multi-hit songwriters Clay Mills and Marty Dodson, who've critiqued thousands of songs at SongTown, brea…
• Mistakes that "amateur" songwriters make from Song Talk Radio— Jessica Stuart joins us to talk about the Song Town podcast episode "10 Mistakes that Peg You as an Amateur Songwriter”
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