There is a veritable minefield of sites awaiting prospective people looking for MP3 downloads. Many are illegal, many are a mix of legal and illegal, but some ARE wholly legal. They have free and legal MP3 files for download to anyone who wants them. The quality of the music at such sites is debatable. I ...
When Miranda Lambert released her album Kerosene, country radio programmers were reluctant to play her songs. The lyrics seemed too intense and controversial, as when she addresses an ex-boyfriend “Forget your high society/I’m soakin’ it in kerosene.” I don’t write about angels, Jesus, happy days, kids. I grew up on drinkin’, cheatin’, love gone bad,” ...
When iTunes, Apple Inc.’s wildly popular MP3 music store first launched in 2003, it sold a whopping million songs in its first five days. Since then, it has continued to hit music benchmarks: Five million, ten million, one hundred million…last year, Apple reported that it had already sold a billion songs. A billion MP3s! People ...
In his ode to Nashville, “Crazy Town,” Jason Aldean sings of the bipolar nature of the music business, where misfortune jams right up against luck. “One year they repossess your truck,” he observes, then adds, “and the next you make a couple million bucks.” Early Career It’s been a crazy town and a crazy career ...
