The first ten times I heard Vanessa Carlton I was not impressed. It was at the gym or surfing my car radio. She was clearly worked up about whatever it was she was singing about but expressed it with a voice that had a highschooler’s affectation. The kind of affectation that could get annoying, and…
Three Graces Part 2 – Jane Siberry
II. Queen Jane Approximately Jane Siberry, like Joni Mitchell, is from Canada. From the mid eighties through the early nineties, I still scoured the radio dial looking for something, anything to inspire. From what I heard music was continuing its long slide begun in the ‘70’s. I was about to tune out for good. If…
Three Graces Part 1 – Joni Mitchell
The Three Graces, Antonio Canova, The Hermitage I. Tangled up in Blue First there was Joni….
Convergence
A frank discussion of the blurring line between “License” and “Royalty Free” production music. Twenty years ago, all music libraries were “License” – i.e., they only offered music on a Needledrop (or per-use) basis, or by Annual Blanket. Around 1990 “Buyout” or “Royalty Free Music” libraries appeared. This was before the internet allowed for individual…
Introduction
In a couple of weeks my production music library, Manchester Music, will be launching a new website, designed and developed by the fine folks at Ascend Marketing. They advised me that starting a blog to publicize it was de rigueur. So here I am, and here’s the pitch: Customers will be able to search and browse our catalog…
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