Quentin Young Talking The Blues

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Quentin Young brings the blues to CMO. He muses over Hendrix, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly. As Quentin says about the blues,”It’s pure art. Raw art – blood and internal organs and brain matter laid out for you.” The blues is a conversation between the artist, their instrument, and their soul. We are talking (and playing) the blues on Colorado Music Originals.

To CD or not to CD? Recording options for today’s musicians.

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Brad Smalling Recording and Mix Engineer at Evergroove Studio joins CMO. We talk about recoding music in this age of music including compact disks, mp3 downloads, and vinyl records. There are many choices for musicians today and also some creative ways bands are promoting themselves.

CMO 03/28/12

The “Second” Life of a Song (Part 2)

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Vivek Tiwary continues his conversation with CMO. First we continue the idea of a second life or many lives for a project. Then we talk about Musicians on Call a non profit group that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilites. Learn more about a group that is growing nationwide.

Please visit Musicians on Call online.

Also listen to part one of Vivek’s interview interview on CMO.

Getting the Right Gig: a restaurateur’s guide to booking bands

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Steve Carlson, owner of Sun Rose Café in Longmont, joins CMO to talk about his perspective on booking acts. What worked. What didn’t. And how that process has evolved. Steve also talk about his mother and her life long involvement in the music industry.

The “Second” Life of a Song

by wkschwamle

CMO talks with Vivek Tiwary, founder of the Tiwary Entertainment Group, about The “Second” life of a Song. Vivck’s passion for music led him to project involving the music industry. He started Starpolish.com a site developed to help musicians help themselves. Lately, traditional band management no longer was effective, so he evolved the process into such projects like Green Day’s American Idiot on Broadway, Producing a documentary about Brian Epstein called the Fifth Beatle which Tiwary had acquired the rights to the music of the Beatles, and Punk Rock Dad a sitcom based on Jim Lindberg the singer of the punk band Pennywise.

So much good information we had to make the interview into two shows.

Trevor Rocks CMO

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In response to Music Genie question from Nate Cook, where is the underground music scene? Trevor O’Connor joins CMO to talk about the above-ground-underground Denver music scene. Also we talk about Musicians In Action a group of people putting together benefit shows to help the areas homeless.

Trevor Rocks Denver

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Ask The Music Genie! How to Promote Yourself

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Ask The Music Genie: How do you promote yourself this day and age? A question asked by Lindsay Meredith a few episodes ago. What are the tools available and how to use them. Promoting your band has change since the days of mailing postcards and printing flyers. We found the genie with the answers: Madalyn Sklar of GoGirlsMusic.com

For more about Madalyn Sklar or the services she provides, please visit her website