Phil,
Like a lot of things, he never really asked me if he could do the song. Just started doing it. He never knew Ron Muir's name. I don't know if he learned it off one of my CD, and might not have had the info. No matter. I just like to have things cleared up.Ron's daughter contacts me from Facebook every once in a while and I like for her to know he gets credit. And that is mostly what any of this is. One time I talked to Bresh about me doing 16 TONS, and he waved the $91. fee for a liscence, and I waved the $91. fee for him using our song. Was just interesting getting this video. Bresh is amazing and I am very honored that he does one of my songs. That is what the name of the game is now.
Now while you are getting overwhelmed, it actually is pretty simple. We are having to use any means at our disposal to get songs 'out there." We always have to be our "front line salesmen." There are other people that might come along, artists, co-writers, publishers, pluggers, labels, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, etc. might or might not come along, but we have to do it first. Long Distance marathon relay.
Right now you are in that exact position. RiDawn, you and I have gotten the song "BORED GAMES" in process. RiDawn and I have been tweaking it back and forth over the phone and talking about it, I have been smoothing it out and sent you the latest copy. We are shooting for RiDawn's project to come together before long and I hope to be recording at her husband's studio in the future. We are shooting for a 6-8 song EP, and we are having a show on her at the Commodore in November right before Frank Brown.
I also sent you a copy of lyrics so that it could be done from a male perspective as a third person narrator. That is what you ought to be doing. You should work it out, perfect it, and get it going around your neck of the woods. You never know where you might run into someone who is interested inthe song. And just because RiDawn will be doing it,doesn't mean others can't do it also. It is a good song, and I think represents you well among the other songs you have.
Now, we could always go a "full up" recording on the song, with great players, and a bigger studio, and that might be a good idea for your catalogue. But that costs money, so we wait on that to see if you decide what you want to do. Just an option.
But the point is that you are doing just what we talk about. Skip all the hiring pluggers or looking for publishers (who won't listen to anything) and writing directly with the artist. That is the bottom line. You are doing that.
So before you get too overwhelmed, that is really the final thing. If you are writing with artists, getting songs out there, getting them finished, well recorded, and they become some of the artist's favorite songs, you have a good chance that you will be staying in the game.
That's the point.
MAB