TODAY ONLY! Yearly subscriptions discounted!
$30 to show your support for The Songseekers…offer valid until 4/26 at 1pm CT.
Creativity and commerce make for strange bedfellows. And bedfellows makes for a strange word, but that’s not my point.
My point is this, if you read this either as a free or paid subscriber or as someone who just stumbled onto this or maybe just reads every so often, you’re my favorite. I don’t put things behind the paywall, but instead leave it up to you the reader to decide how you’d like to interact with the content without any shame or guilt. For the time being at least, it’s the model that works for me ethically, emotionally, artistically, etc.
However, financial support does help me to grow this into something more than it is, even though, no, I’m not unsatisfied with the state of The Songseekers, I’m just perpetually eager to improve upon the things I make.
The reality of the indie creator is that we love creating essays and podcasts, but don’t have the financial backing of networks or ad revenue and in a lot of ways, that’s great. I don’t like being beholden to anyone else’s expectations. But it’s always a bit of an uphill battle to get anyone’s attention in this overcrowded landscape of modern content creation.
All that to say, I understand that paying for every independent creator’s subscription isn’t possible. But I want to give you a more affordable yearly subscription option as a way of saying thank you, but also a way of saying, your support matters to me tremendously.
So the yearly subscription for The Songseekers has been dropped for the next 24 hours only to $30. Don’t feel like subscribing? That’s ok. Please keep reading and commenting and hopefully enjoying. Do feel like subscribing? You’ll be supporting a grateful independent creator who’s trying to do something that’s fun and interesting, and maybe even thought provoking at times. My goal for May is to come up with some paid subscriber benefits too. I don’t know what these are yet, but I promise I’ll come up with something.
Anyhow, enough with the commercial stuff! Thanks for being here. Go do me a favor and check out some independent live music tonight and/or this weekend if you have the time and means.
Also check out Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams’s new album All This Time. Those two are phenomenal musicians and are standard bearers for the whole vague idea of what “Americana” music is meant to be.
I’m aiming for Sunday for the release of Episode 7 of The Songseekers Podcast, featuring musician, author, business owner, and life coach, Tara Shannon. I think you’re going to love the talk we had about her multifaceted life and her insights into the music industry, songwriting, and social media and how it affects up-and-coming musicians. Good stuff!
Thanks for reading and supporting The Songseekers!