Ray,

Your songs don't have to be written for a duo or demoed for one. The last duo we produced, none of the chosen songs were written or demoed that way. The final songs haven't been selected yet (I have to pick more up from SONY tommarrow),medium and up tempo songs would be good. I would like to hear your break up songs. The M of the duo is going through one right now. Your songs may be someting he can relate to.

As far as getting songs from publishers, they freely give us what ever we're looking for. Sometimes if our producer has the time, he will go the offices himself and sit for hours listening to songs. But he is very respected here in Nashville. Alot of publishers will have two or more libraries. For example SONY has one that they offer to the average Joe or unknown producers, these are songs that have been turned down a 1000 times by major artist, are by unknown writers, or that have already been released. Then there is the A list demos these are the ones we have access to, but if we choose a song to record and a major decides to cut it, it doesn't matter if we are 1 hour from our session, we have to relinquish it to the major. We had that happen with Alan Jackson last year. Alison Krauss was producing him and picked a song by Kim McClean that our artist was to record. We had to drop it and then they didn't even release it. But on the bright side we did record 3 other Kim songs. But keep in mind we are not a recording mill for indi artist that want to make it big. Our producer only takes on about 4 or 5 artist a year to produce and pitch.

Everett, I'm not into the publishing end of things yet. We have been considering it, but at this point if we record a song by Ray or any other writer without a publisher, they hold their own publishing. If an artist gets signed and the label releases the project, the writer stands to receive royalties for both writer and publishing.

BM Bland