Demos, Songwrite, Songwriting

Alejandro Escovedo and Chuck Prophet discuss the importance and purity of demos

Alejandro Escovedo just posted this video on Facebook. He and Chuck Prophet discuss the importance and purity of demos, an Austin icestorm, and the thrill of writing a new song (plus the video weaves in a running joke about a former manager who always expected a little more from them).

Some of the take away quotes from the video are:

    “There is always something about the demos that are better.” — Prophet
    “And we ended up going to France and spending five days trapped…” — Escovedo
    “They put us in a little cottage.” — Prophet
    “The demos are my favorite recordings of the songs really.” — Escovedo
    “They’ll never be that pure again.” — Prophet

Chuck and Alejandro – Demos from remedy editorial on Vimeo.


Music Marketing

QR Code

I’m testing out this QR code:

QR code for Eric Beverly

If you’ve got a mobile device, let me know how this image works in the comments section. I imagine you’ll end up on the main page for ericbeverly.com.

Thank you.

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Songs that make me a better man

Bandcamp is a great service for independent musicians like myself. Bandcamp’s primary role is to help you buy my music.

In addition, Bandcamp provides analytics that let me know how people discover my music.

I was just reviewing my bandcamp analytics. Typically, this is pretty dry stuff, but I found one person’s recent search to be inspirational. Someone searched Google looking for “songs that make me a better man.” What a great thing to search for (for which to search). I hope they found just what they needed.

This is the song of mine that they found.

<a href="http://ericbeverly.bandcamp.com/track/makes-me-a-better-man">Makes me a better man by Eric Beverly</a>

What song has made you a better man (or better woman)? Share your story in the comments section.


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