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Crossroads: Bif Naked
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Industry Profile - Independent Music Supervisor Maureen Crowe
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Unsigned Spotlight - Glenn Erickson
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Unsigned Spotlight - Glenn EricksonBy Mark E. Waterbury
 Unsigned Artist Name: Glenn Erickson
Musical Genre: Easy Listening, Country/Singer-Songwriter
Birthplace: Toronto, South Dakota
Current Residence: Mission Viejo, California
Years In Music Biz: 3
Web Site: www.sergeentertainmentgroup.com/glenn_erickson
MM: How long have you been involved in music?
GE: I wrote my first song called "I Dreamed" at age sixteen, and that's still in my collection of songs. I've been singing and writing all of my life, but I never actually entered the music industry per-se. I won a series of talent contests when I was a teenager, and thought about a music career but then I ended up going to the Korean War. When I returned, I did various jobs and finally went into my own business and spent forty some years at that. So I never really got in the music business, it was more of a hobby.
MM: During your time working in your own business did you feel there was a time, like maybe when you retired that you would pursue music more?
GE: My main objective in writing the music was to get some major star or rising potential star to sing some of my songs. I never really intended to be a performer, but I was hoping as a writer I could get someone else to do my songs. I feel I've got some pretty good music, and I don't know how to define it, it's not today's Nashville country. It's more easy listening country.
MM: Do you feel that there is a market for your music these days?
GE: I feel there is a market to people who don't relate to strong, macho type country music. It's pretty music, and I think today's music is more about telling stories. My music has more to do with feelings and emotions.
MM: When did you start actually recording your own music?
GE: I sold my business in October of 1999 and at that time I really got serious about music; writing new songs and putting them on CD as well as salvaging songs that I had on tape. In 2001, I did the first digital recordings of it. I accumulated over the years about four hundred songs on cassette. I picked the songs that I thought were the best to put on the CD, and I have about seventy some songs. Right now I've converted three of my older cassette recorded albums to CD, and I'm just finishing up with that
MM: What did you do to market the first CD you recorded, "Living In Autumn?"
GE: I put it on MP3, I didn't do any promotion. I just sort of put it out there, I didn't really know what to do. I sent it to some publishers, you know the days when you used to be able to fly into Nashville and talk to publishers is long gone. I've had a couple songs published before and had open invitations to go to Nashville, but as the years went by the publishers started using their own songwriters and are not necessarily interested in working with people like myself. So with "Living In Autumn" I sent it to some publishers I knew of. One particular publisher said he liked the songs and referred me to an independent public relations specialist to have her promote the music.
MM: What are your plans to promote your newest release "Life's Been Good To Me!" as well as the other CDs you are finishing up?
GE: I expect to work with the public relations company, who thinks we need to work the CDs one at a time. One of the CDs is recorded with a local singer named Mick Barton who has a much better country voice then I do, and he does a much better job on the music that has a more country sound. I think that's the CD that we should be promoting the most if we want to go the country route. I'm kind of in limbo right now, I'm not really sure where I want to go with all of this. I feel what (public relations) is doing for me is very positive. I want to get the music to the publishers, and I don't really know how to do it. Publishers aren't taking much from independent songwriters these days.
MM: What do people like the most about the music, what's the feedback you get?
GE: People who have listened to them like the pretty sound to it. They have a nice melody and a nice feel to them.
MM: Now that you have the time to actually devote yourself more to creating music, how do you feel?
GE: I'm having a great time! I enjoy writing my own music and am trying some new writing styles that I did not do in the past. And I'm enjoying doing things a bit differently, but I also think some of the older songs are as good as some of the newer ones. I also enjoy recording them with the group, I have a real good group of musicians I work with. I'd love to see some top performers do some of my music. I don't think Toby Keith or Alan Jackson would do them, but there are some performers out there who would love to have a catalogue of this type of music. At my age I don't have any pretensions of becoming a star. But I think the music is good and as far as money is concerned, I'm not in it for that. I just want to have other people appreciate it and enjoy it, and that would give me great pleasure if I knew that there were people out there that had the opportunity to listen to it and enjoy it.
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