Download Music Please.
iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby Google Play etc. The only place you can get the cool Buddy Holly cover "Not Fade Away" though is at CDbaby. Hey, I gotta give the cred to my producer for those awesome tracks on that cut!
Or buy the actual physical CD at https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/coppin
Just to recap- blah-blah bio stuff about me at CDBaby etc - 'Top prize winner of both The John Lennon Songwriting Contest and The Telluride Troubadour Competition, a featured MainStage Kerrville Folk Festival performer, "... An elixir for the soul" Helen Slater, actress. "Amazing voice & songwriting..." Wayne Brady'
And don't forget songs like "Not Fade Away" are recorded in such a cool way mostly because I was blessed to have GRAMMY nominated Jay Donnelan as my awesomely inspired producer. (Dream Weaver, The band- LOVE, David Foster & many, many more credits!) It was a fantastic time, recording tucked away in Jay's studio in Malibu Canyon. And look at who played on my CD & their credits?? You will be blown away. Absolutely top notch players & we recorded many of the songs all playing together at once. I was pretty green but it was so much fun!!
Yup, after on & off hiatuses, (we just won't mention the reasons), I have finally returned to downloading sites like iTunes, Amazon etc.....just as people DON't seem to actually feel the need to pay for music anymore, yikes!. Kinda creepy. (ooo that sounds bittuh!)
Just to recap- blah-blah bio stuff about me at CDBaby etc - 'Top prize winner of both The John Lennon Songwriting Contest and The Telluride Troubadour Competition, a featured MainStage Kerrville Folk Festival performer, "... An elixir for the soul" Helen Slater, actress. "Amazing voice & songwriting..." Wayne Brady'
And don't forget songs like "Not Fade Away" are recorded in such a cool way mostly because I was blessed to have GRAMMY nominated Jay Donnelan as my awesomely inspired producer. (Dream Weaver, The band- LOVE, David Foster & many, many more credits!) It was a fantastic time, recording tucked away in Jay's studio in Malibu Canyon. And look at who played on my CD & their credits?? You will be blown away. Absolutely top notch players & we recorded many of the songs all playing together at once. I was pretty green but it was so much fun!!
Yup, after on & off hiatuses, (we just won't mention the reasons), I have finally returned to downloading sites like iTunes, Amazon etc.....just as people DON't seem to actually feel the need to pay for music anymore, yikes!. Kinda creepy. (ooo that sounds bittuh!)
Personally, I still love to download full CDs of the artists that move me, (better yet, when possible, hard pressed physical copies), the quality is so much better & there is simply nothing like driving, uninterrupted listening to a full album as a complete work of art - with all the peeks & valleys of the musical journey - as only a full CD can deliver.
No, like many others, at this time, I do not stream. Many of you may not know it but if my music is on Pandora & other streaming music sources, they pay me practically ZIP as an Indie artist!! (I'm talking fractions of pennies!! nk). Well, actually they barely pay for even huge corporate artists & songwriters. That's why concert ticket prices are so high.
I don't know what the heck OUR lobbyists have been doing, but it certainly hasn't been protecting our intellectual property and livelihood. As much as I admire my many Silicon Valley genius friends, I'm disheartened that in tech, while they are so quick to protect their OWN intellectual property, they have long had no problem at all decimating many authors', visual artists' & especially music creators' ability to earn a living without constantly touring & selling CDs at shows.
Nothing I can do but.....create great work and sell live as much as possible. And ask you to PLEASE download, not stream when possible. If you turn on streaming & then you discover new artists and go BUY their music, fantastic. But if you only use it as background music, don't complain as MANY great Indie artists keep disappearing or so many other talents, you will just never hear. If you don't hear or can't find the kind of music that comes straight from the artist's heart to yours like you crave..... It is not free for us to create music & most often thousands and thousands of hours of Love Sweat & Tears- and YEARS went into not just acquiring our skills but also getting it recorded.
Hey, I'm seriously considering/planning on getting a new degree in radiology. Seriously. Gotta do what I gotta do.
I've been blessed in the past to have sold thousands of CDs on my own, independently (thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!). In order to have the funds to record more music though, I have to get paid for my work. So I, like many other artists do NOT give everything away for free & stream.
I will always create music but creating recordings for listeners to buy has not been a vanity project for me. It's been a lively-hood. I give away demo guitar vocals mp3s (just ask) all the time but to actually record CD quality music, takes finances, plain & simple.
Thank you always for your very moving support over the years, especially when I was not performing at all. I personally, (maybe insecurely) wince at the thought of crowd fund-raising to record but I will probably have no choice but to get over it soon.
I know for too many years you've been asking for new CDs but my life got in the way. Believe me... I regret not recording the many, many other songs I have been performing for years.
I am so moved that many of you know the many, many unrecorded songs I've played for years, as well as the songs that sold so well on the old CD.
What is, is. And I am the type that just says, "Next!" & will find a way to make things happen, like getting more music available to you when you aren't at a show. In the meantime, thanks for when you do download, it does eventually find my music making pocket.
Btw, right now, I have NO idea where the money goes right now for Reverb Nation so, maybe you can skip buying through that one?
At my own site, your data is NEVER sold or even gathered except I get updates about what countries people are from & that's kinda cool at times. You DO know that FB etc for 'free' are so NOT really free at all, right? As your personal data information has become quite a commodity to sell, sometimes in scarey ways. I'm pretty "It's a great life!" kind of person but...it's actually super creepy if you become aware of how many ways your info is being used.
Anyway.... support your indie artist, especially this curly-haired surfer girl, ok by downloading?
I've been blessed in the past to have sold thousands of CDs on my own, independently (thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!). In order to have the funds to record more music though, I have to get paid for my work. So I, like many other artists do NOT give everything away for free & stream.
I will always create music but creating recordings for listeners to buy has not been a vanity project for me. It's been a lively-hood. I give away demo guitar vocals mp3s (just ask) all the time but to actually record CD quality music, takes finances, plain & simple.
Thank you always for your very moving support over the years, especially when I was not performing at all. I personally, (maybe insecurely) wince at the thought of crowd fund-raising to record but I will probably have no choice but to get over it soon.
I know for too many years you've been asking for new CDs but my life got in the way. Believe me... I regret not recording the many, many other songs I have been performing for years.
I am so moved that many of you know the many, many unrecorded songs I've played for years, as well as the songs that sold so well on the old CD.
What is, is. And I am the type that just says, "Next!" & will find a way to make things happen, like getting more music available to you when you aren't at a show. In the meantime, thanks for when you do download, it does eventually find my music making pocket.
Btw, right now, I have NO idea where the money goes right now for Reverb Nation so, maybe you can skip buying through that one?
At my own site, your data is NEVER sold or even gathered except I get updates about what countries people are from & that's kinda cool at times. You DO know that FB etc for 'free' are so NOT really free at all, right? As your personal data information has become quite a commodity to sell, sometimes in scarey ways. I'm pretty "It's a great life!" kind of person but...it's actually super creepy if you become aware of how many ways your info is being used.
Anyway.... support your indie artist, especially this curly-haired surfer girl, ok by downloading?
Or one day, maybe I'll just hum to you from my radiology job, lolz?
Love ya, Mary :-)
Love ya, Mary :-)
