Hi everyone,

My wife Dee Dee made me aware of Lisa Kent's latest

update about Chris' ongoing fight with his cancer. Because of treatments

and the side effects and his deteriorating health, Chris will be unable

to tour in 2011. Since he's been not only fighting his cancer but

amazingly still working on the Road with Lorrie Morgan, Melinda

Doolittle, and others this will create a significant financial hardship

on the Kent family right when they need to focus on…

Dear friends who record and release music... I'd like to help protect your interests by sharing the following cautionary tale:

I got a frantic message from an indie artist this week. She had a very upsetting note from one of my cowriters, saying to have her attorney contact her. He had been surfing the web, noticed that she cut his song and released it to radio. Problem was, he had not received any mechanical money or signed a…

As an independent artist you have some additional challenges as well as some additional freedoms and one area most artist overlook is the ticketing of the events they perform. Ticketing whether it is free or paid can be a huge connector to your audience plus a huge revenue generator. Both are very valuable. Online ticket distribution can be used for free events as well as paid events and the advantages are the…