Confused in Nashville.

Posted by jamieb on October 5, 2011

Don’t be too fooled by that title.  If I was in New York right now, I’d still be confused.  I’d just be confused in New York.  Right now I’m in the middle of taking everyone who hasn’t responded to my show this Sunday, off the facebook invite, with the plan to reinvite them later in the hopes that they just missed the invite the first time.  To me, this seems absolutely crazy!  The writer in me is furious, because I could be spending this time writing.  Instead, I’m thinking of new marketing tactics, working to figure out how to get as many people to my shows as possible.  If you read my most recent newsletter, I think you’ll get a taste of a similar thought.  Basically, me saying that I don’t want to force anyone to come to my shows.  However, sitting in this Nashville coffeeshop (Edgehill… LOVE it) listening to one fantastic song after another on the radio, I’m reminded that I do need to push my music out to everyone, just a little bit.  There is so much going on in all of our lives, so many lyrics, thoughts that we all create- whether or not we’re songwriters.  Mine are definitely not any more or less important than everything else out there, but if I want you to listen to what I’m saying with the hope that you might relate or feel a similar way, I should probably help you out.  I should help you by delivering my music more effectively.  I don’t love being in your face.  Any suggestions are welcome.  But, maybe, if you like my lyrics or melodies, even my marketing strategies (ha), maybe once in a while you’ll start to reach out first.  I guess that’s ideally how it works.

Not that I want to be anyone’s low hanging fruit.  I think I’m gonna go write a song now.