LICENSING OF SONGS

·         SongFile, the online licensing link for the Harry Fox Agency

FOR SONGWRITERS/PERFORMERS

·         Music Starts Here

·         The Nashville Songwriters Association

·         The Songwriters Guild

·         The Americana Music Association

·         International Bluegrass Music Association

·         Music Row Magazine

·         The Nashville Muse

·         Roots Music Exporters - John Lomax

OTHER HELPFUL LINKS

·         World Music Nashville

·         Taylor Guitars

·         Calton Cases

·         Ashley Hylbert - Photography

·         Mike Poston - Mastering and Audio Archiving

·         Country Music Hall of Fame

·         Musician's Hall of Fame

·         Nashville Jazz Workshop

·         Online Charts for Singers

·         Online Charts for iPhone or iTouch users

·         Music United

·         American Federation Of Musicians - "Do Not Work For" list

STORIES & ARTICLES

·         Peter Cooper article about some of the amateurish crap on Country Radio - GREAT

·         Odie Blackmon

·         Gary Allan

·         Kathy Mattea

·         Phil Sweetland's Article about Byron

·         George Strait and the song "My Infinite Love"

·         Gene Wooten

·         George Strait and the song "Fool Hearted Memory"

·         Alabama and the song "Born Country"

·         George Jones and the song "High-Tech Redneck"

·         Tracy Byrd and the song "Lifestyles of the Not So Rich and Famous"

·         Anne Murray and the song "Over You"

·         Ray Charles and the song "The Pages Of My Mind"

·         Johnny Lee and the song "Pickin' Up Strangers"

·         Sammy Kershaw and the song "Politics, Religion And Her"

·         Joe Nichols and the song "Size Matters"

GOOD PLACES

·         St. Jude's Childrens Hospital

·         The Salvation Army

·         Operation Gratitude

·         Hands On Nashville

·         MusicCares (flood relief site)

·         MusicCares (addiction recovery)

COOL THINGS

WHERE DO YOU GET MUSIC ONLINE .....WITHOUT BREAKING THE LAW?

Go to www.musicunited.org for a list of legal sites.

RALPH MURPHY'S - Murphy's Laws of Songwriting

Ralph is one of the most experienced song-persons in the business. More about this book at:

http://murphyslawsofsongwriting.com/

SONG: The World's Best Songwriters on Creating the Music That Moves Us a compilation of 100 INTERVIEWS, 1984-2006 . Writer's Digest Books. "In these interviews conducted by various scribes for American Songwriter magazine, songsmiths as diverse as Lyle Lovett, Ray Charles, Beck, Burt Bacharach, Roger Miller, Fountains of Wayne, and Kenny Chesney make this a broad if not particularly deep survey of how current pop music is devised and an excellent acquisition for pop-music collections." -American Library Association. (The book also includes a chapter on Byron Hill).

The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing (2nd Edition), by Randall D. Wixen.

You can order this book online almost anywhere. Great book.