An Evening With A Publisher
17 September 2024: Publisher “An Evening With A Publisher” Beaird Music Group, Inc., Aaron Beaird, President Guest: Matt Turner, Sr. Director A&R, Concord Music Group, Nashville, TN
Three Demo Songs provided for evaluation: “Three Roses All Red, White and Gold”, “Bless Your Heart” and “Ride the Wind”
Comments by Mr. Turner after Demo presentation:
Summary – “GREAT JOB! Keep up the good work!
“Three Roses All Red, White and Gold”
“Bill, I think you did a great job here. And I don’t have a whole lot of negative feedback. This feels like a great classic Country song like Alan Jackson, or someone like that. It moves along nicely. It has a great tempo to it. A great love song! I love how you tied everything from beginning to the end. I love the song! I think you did a great job! They know I give honest feedback on here (at the Evening With a Publisher events), so I really think you did a great job!”
“Bless Your Heart”
“Great job, Bill! Once again! It’s so funny because it seems you could come to Nashville and give a little tutorial to the writers on how to write up-tempo songs. One of the common themes we get asked for are up-tempo songs. We get up-tempo with throw away lyrics, you know. There used to be a craft in Nashville where writing up-tempo, feel-good songs that actually said something. And you just delivered that! I think you did a great job. You’ve just delivered that! Kind of a Trisha Yearwood song that makes you want to feel good and tap your toes... but also says something. So, Great Job!”
“Ride the Wind”
“Great Job! There’s always cowboys and Country Music! There are opportunities like this. Obviously, the audience is more limited than Country music love songs, party on Friday night songs. It takes a guy like a Cody Johnson to give it life, or someone along those lines. But, so, the question becomes pitching it with a song like this. As far as the way you wrote the song and the work you put in… I think you did a great job once again.”
26 September 2024: Publisher “An Evening With A Publisher” Beaird Music Group, Inc., Aaron Beaird, President Guest: Danial Lee, A&R and Artist Development, LEO33 Music Group, (Former Creative Director for Ten Ten Music Group, and President of artist development company, Altadena), Nashville, TN
Comments by Mr. Lee after each Demo presentation:
“Thru the Eyes of a Child”
“It’s a beautiful song! I don’t have a specific need within the things I currently am looking at. I feel it would, I don’t know, maybe be tied in some sort of a PSA, or a non-profit or something along those lines that could capture that video component. So, this will be a PASS for me, not because of the song, but because it doesn’t fit within what we have right now. Does that make sense? … Good job in developing the focal point of the song, so it doesn’t become stale. Good job in approaching it from a different angle.”
“Wild Rivers”
“That’s a really cool ‘story’ song! I think you could take it in several directions, more like a Bluegrass flavor to it. YES, send me a copy of that. I’ll make a list of those I’ve mentioned, and I’ll take them back to have fresh ears to listen and see if we have a place for it.”