Two voices are better than one

Yesterday evening I invited my best friend, Audrey Lamont, over to my house to record a duet for the album. I am so excited to be able to feature her great guitar playing and voice in a collaboration song!

Learn more about Ear Candy

The goal of this project is to sell my own album and donate the profits to Ear Candy. But how much do you know about Ear Candy?

More proof that music education = the best

In case you had any doubt, this article proves that music education is where it's at! Read it; it sums up just a few of the many reasons to support music education and Head Indie Clouds.

Easier way to leave comments on Head Indie Clouds posts

I have now added a Facebook comments widget on all blog posts (and I will continue to do that for future blog posts).

Since when is footwear connected to music?

I'm not sure how footwear and music education connect, but Pediped Footwear seems to think music education is a worthwhile investment; they donated $15,000 to support instrumental music education! The money went to VH1 Save the Music Foundation, an organization similar to Ear Candy, the charity this whole project is in support of. You can read an article about it here.

The fact that a footwear company promotes music education speaks volumes.

Let's get down to business

Pssst... If you have any fundraising suggestions, there is a comment box at the end of this post to leave your genius fundraising methods. Leave them there, please? (:

I started a new cover song today (hopefully this one will come out as I want it to, unlike the last one I tried earlier this week...), but I didn't finish it. Today was much more focused on the "business" of this project. You know, like how I am going to get these CDs to be made and distributed and paid for and legally sound.

I am working on obtaining licenses through Harry Fox for the songs I have already completed. While I have asked the copyright holder of every song I have done so far, very few have even responded... and none of them have been able to waive a licensing fee for me. I thought that maybe, since this is a school charity project, that might be a possibility, but so far, not so much.

However, the big breakthrough of day was looking into different companies to create my CDs. I am leaning towards CD Baby at the moment because they have relatively affordable rates, lots of options for customization, and I can order any number of CDs that I want. (I can also get a second order of my CDs if I sell out of my first batch.) CD Baby is specifically for indie musicians, too! Sounds like a match made in heaven, yes?

First original song on the album!

I have been having problems obtaining licensing for cover songs that I would like to have on my album. Often times, the song is too new for the rights to even be available. In other scenarios, the licensing fees are way to expensive for me to even think about paying for this project.