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Well, there is talent in places you don't think there is any. Heck, this message board produced Chris Young and Kacey Musgraves who were both here when they were young and nobody. If it were me, I would find my best song and start looking for a young singer who is likely too young at that point to be a writer. They may sing 10 of your songs for pizza money and feel like it was a great deal (and to a young kid, it would be). It gives them a budding collection of songs they've sung and you get a good voice for a demo. For that matter, you don't have to find a young Chris Young or Kacey Musgraves. You can find someone half as good who still will sound better than you own voice if you can't sing well. I couldn't sing well, so I found a great singer when I was young and he couldn't play an instrument or write a melody and was so-so on lyrics, but needed someone who could take his ideas, give him equal writing credit, write music for them and polish up the lyrics a bit and in exchange I got a literal broadway talent to sing my songs and wrote a whole bunch of songs in a style I never would have because I worked with him. Make more friends, even at your age Neil, with someone young and hungry. Go to a local songwriters org nearby and pluck an average singer out of them to work with. An average singer is better than a bad singer right? And you never know who they'll turn into. So many people over they years have come through this message board and said "where are all the stars? where are all the hit writers? etc." meanwhile, we had two young world class talents (and there have been others) here all the time that may have worked with ANYONE who had reached out at that time. You have to work it and find someone. See if there is an Open Mic in Georgetown and pluck someone from there. Just give it a try, you may be amazed. Go to a local school and ask if there are any young singers among them and that you'd like to talk to their parents about having them record one of your songs and you can make it a "show and tell" day in class to debut the result. I am just tossing out things anyone could do if they want to find a singer even in a place without obvious resources. There are singers everywhere just like there are writers everywhere. But you have to go out and find them. And it is fun! Go have some fun with it. (This goes for any of you in a similar situation).