Big Jim,

That would make sense. Nashville is not a market you are interested in. The point I try to make on all of this is in the pitching, not the recording. One of the reasons people come to Nashville is it is the last area people actually record outside songs in the make up of the community. It is almost self contained but pretty much every other form of music is almost 100% self contained, so there is no chance for outside songs, regardless of how well they are recorded.

The reason for the "consistancy" that Mike Caro talks about, and the reality of fifty years of being the same thing, the home of country music and the principal force of the three music centers in that arena, is the compact nature of the community.
The reason people record here is not just to get the demos, it is to soak up the community. To meet the publishers, producers, writers, artists, musicians, that are involved with the actual part of the industry. You can do that hear. Everybody who is an "insider" now, was an "outsider' at some time. They worked their way in by doing it the way everyone has to.

In everything, you have to look past the song. It is never about "giving a demo' to anybody. That accomplishes nothing. Never has. It is about building a relationship with someone who believes in that song as much as you do and wants to place their reputation on that song, just like yours is. Songs and demos are a dime a dozen. It is about getting someone else involved and staking their own personal capital on that song.
Having a demo that sounds like the competition for the slots on that song are only a part of it.

90% of these and other threads are about "What do I do next with my songs?" That is why there is so much conversations about recording, pitching, TAXI, song catalogues, etc. No one knows what to do with them once they are finished. In my opinion and experience, there is no way outside of investing the personal capital in the type of music you are interested in, and taking it to the source where that music is done.

Writing, recording, performing are only 15% of the success of a song or writer. 85% are things the writer has no control over. Getting the right type of demo is only one part of that equation. That is just upping the level of the odds.

MAB