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Say Hey -

I was exposing Goody (settle down Mike, read the rest of the sentence) to a new distribution tool I've acquired and she has encouraged me to tell all of you about it too. Should have thought of that myself.

At Folk Alliance back in February I met some folks from a company called DiscRevolt. They provide musicians a way to sell digital downloads of their music without the purchaser having to sign up for a membership to iTunes, Napster, etc. The musician uploads their music, as much as they want, to the DiscRevolt site along with art used to create a "card design." A download card is designed that will contain a code on the back enabling the holder of the card to access the DiscRevolt site and download 15 songs. Each artist who is part of DiscRevolt designates one of their songs as a "feature" song which all buyers accessing the site have access to.

So, to illustrate, let's say you buy one of my cards from me ($10 by the way, so about .67 per song). With that card you can download 15 of my songs OR some lesser number of my songs and the balance of your 15 can come from the "feature songs" of other artists. The downloads are mp3 format and iPod compatible.

The artist buys the cards from DiscRevolt in quantity (say 100 at a time) and then sells them through their website and at their live performances. No accounting, no middleman. What do you think? Under the Folk genre there are already some great artists (besides me of course) including Kerrville New Folk finalists Dave Potts, Will Maring and The Dalzeils. Check it out. There are links on my webpages and the home page for DiscRevolt is at http://www.discrevolt.com/.