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Since Devon McGlamery announced his move from the Dixie Melody Boys to Karen Peck and New River a few weeks back, there’s been plenty of discussion and consternation - of the latter, especially from old quartet types who assume any non-quartet gig is a step down. On one basic level, that sort of talk is […]

There’s a not-so-secret scandal in sg that everyone involved pretty much agrees not to talk about: unpaid royalties. Not exactly Whitewater or Watergate, but non-payment of royalties does affect real people (mostly songwriters, whose livelihood often depends on royalty payments) and puts an asterisk beside sg as a whole. It’s a complicated issue, so let’s […]

My post on the Eddie Crook Company gave me a chance to a talk to ECC’s executive vice president, Dave Wilcox, for a while this morning. And in the interest of fairness to ECC, it seems worthwhile to summarize some of Wilcox’s main points for the record.

Of the 50 or so artists ECC works with, […]

It seems like almost every day Eddie Crook Company signs another artist, and every time I see these announcements I’m reminded that perhaps no one in the music development business could possibly have a more unfortunate name than Eddie Crook. If fate were to look upon, say, a heart surgeon with the same displeasure shown […]