[Dixielandjazz] So who's this Jim Cullum...?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Hi Paul:

    Yes something like that, certainly not trying to downplay any of 
their skills or success, and admittedly I came into the genre late, but 
I am also a person who thrives and scours all sorts of music for good 
stuff, so I was trying to say that somehow they just never seemed to 
surface anyplace I was looking.

And no argument about the Media Sharks,  they usually don't come out 
until the poor souls die and only then to be hip enough to give them a 
line or two of print in the Obit section.   This however does lead up 
to what i was also trying to get across about the artist and or their 
representation to keep hammering constantly at the media, and planting 
stories and then mailing those stories to the others who might be 
ignoring them etc.   It's tough job for certain, but if it is not done 
soooooo many great artists just seem to fade away until we hear about 
them dying.

We saw a start at it again with the Ken Burns series and all the hype 
about it, that is the kind of thing that in my opinion NPR should be 
doing a lot more of and they already have Jim Cullum to help launch it 
and perhaps if they were to expand it and exploit the music more it 
would continue to grow and the other forms of media might get on board. 
  The one thing is for certain that if we all don't push them they 
won't.    Where there is a will there is always a way!  maybe many have 
just lost the Will or maybe never even had it and are just content to 
rest on their laurels and play for fun.  Heck I don't know, just trying 
to stimulate others to help push it anyway and everywhere they can no 
matter how small a paper, magazine, internet radio, blogs, websites or 
TV  on local cable stations etc, who are always begging for 
programming.  I just think there is a lot more available out there for 
all of us if we just get and remain creative with our marketing and 
promotion.

Cheers  and Happy Holidays to you and yours and ll listmates and their 
kinfolk and friends.

Tom Wiggins

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-----Original Message-----
From: paul.edgerton at eds.com
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] So who's this Jim Cullum...?

    Tom, I think you're asking something like "If these guys are 
supposed to
be the top of the heap, why haven't I heard them until now?"

Indeed.  I think the answer isn't so much that OKOM hasn't made efforts
toward publicity -- that certainly *has* happened -- but rather, the
smell of money isn't in the water, so the media sharks' feeding frenzy
hasn't been triggered.


Even Louis Armstrong, with all of his charisma and public recognition
(not mention the efforts of Joe Glaser) rarely attracted the attention
or the money that follows most pop stars of the last 50 years.  Louis
certainly made out all right, but the big pop stars got *much* more
attention.

How much of stardom is really just a self-fulfilling prophecy?  I mean,
among the ones who can handle it, and don't self-destruct.

-- Paul Edgerton, who wonders where pop music would be today without the
Autotune plug-in for ProTools.

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