WSM: the legendary “Air Castle of the South”, Home of the Grand Ole Opry, America’s longest-running live radio show, and the birthplace of countless country music careers. Just as Ralph Emery fostered the dreams of many up-and-coming artists, another late night disc jockey did the same for West Coast native Jayne Nelsen.
Serendipity brought Nelsen’s husband to Nashville on a business trip, and curiosity caused him to approach a WSM disc jockey to see if he’d play Jayne’s demo of “Are You Watching Me Now?” an autobiographical tribute to her late father. “He knocked on the window and the guy came up and said ‘We can’t do it right now, but if you come back at midnight, maybe they can play it then.’ So he came back, knocked on the window, and played the song for him. The DJ happened to have little girls at home, and he called me on the phone in California and said ‘I love this song and I want to play it.’ People started calling. Even a taxi driver called him crying at one in the morning.”
I’ve been a music journalist for more than 10 years. Over the years, many artists and managers have asked me what the best way to break into the European music market is.
Here are some things you can do:
Publish artist press releases, news, and tour dates to the CountryHome Forum on MySpace, http://groups.myspace.com/CountryHomeMagazine , CountryHome Forum is part of CountryHome, http://www.CountryHome.de , Germany's Premier Country Music Online Magazine. Everything you publish to the CountryHome Forum will be published in my weekly Newsletter which has over 80,000 readers.
Send me CDs and DVDs for review and set up an artist interview with me. All reviews and interviews will be submitted to the magazines I'm writing for. More information for which magazines I'm writing can be found at http://www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Upload artist videos to http://www.MyVideo.de and http://www.ClipFish.de . Both websites are like http://www.YouTube.com and uploading videos is free. The websites are completely in German. If you don’t speak German and need assistance, I will help you open an account and upload a video for 25 Euro. Each additional video upload for the same artist name and at the same video website is 10 Euro.
If you have more questions about the European music market or about any of the information I send to you today, please contact me at Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de too.
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany
Today I like to inform you, that you can read and watch interviews with your favorit country stars in Enlgish, German and French at http://www.CountryHome.de/Interviews .
Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
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