Taylor Hicks ~~ On tour with "just the music"

Taylor Hicks is back on the road this month.


You can read all of it at the link below. You’ll have a better backdrop for my focus. But what I want to share is this from Bob Lefsetz’ “McMurtry at McCabes”:

"James McMurtry is up there telling his stories, evidencing all the years of practice on his guitar, and his loyal audience comes to see him.

And that's all there is.

There's no front page story in a newspaper no longer being read.

There's no video on an MTV that's all reality shows.

There's no million selling CD.

There's just the music. And that's got to be enough. Journeymen can't afford backdrops and dancers, frequently they can't even afford a band.

Songwriters are bitching they can't get paid in the new world.

Yes, you can. You can put your old kit bag over your shoulder and go on the road. Those radio dreams are history. People find out about music online and support those artists who are authentic, who are playing to them, not the gatekeepers.

Everybody wants to go back to the past. Well, that's what we're doing. Only it's further back than you contemplated, before CDs, before radio, when you made your living live.

Are you up to the challenge?

James McMurtry is."

And Taylor Hicks is.

He proves it again as he heads out for 12 shows in the next month.

I know. It may sound simplistic, idealistic, and not too realistic. It’s not all the “business” of this business.

But it is the focus—the music. It has to be first!

Catch Taylor Hicks on the road this month—with or without his “old kit bag” over his shoulder!

Where there is "just the music."

See if he meets the challenge.

I’m betting he will!

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After a day on the golf course tomorrow at the Regions ProAm Tournament in Shoal Creek, AL, Taylor Hicks opens a month of concerts starting in New Orleans at Howlin’ Wolf. Check out the Tour Schedule to the right. For more information on all of the tour stops, visit:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/connections/forum/1667442/

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Bob Lefsetz’ “McMurtry at McCabes” http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/05/01/mcmurtry-at-mccabes/

Note: James McMurtry is a Texas rock and Americana music singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader and occasional actor. His literary father, Larry McMurtry, wrote the 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning western novel, “Lonesome Dove.”

Photo by San from Epcot Center, 2010.