Friday, August 06, 2004

How to Succeed in Music With a Lot of Effort

USA Today had a big story about how musicians make the largest chunk of their livings from touring, not album sales. The paradigm for this in the story is banjo whiz Bela Fleck and his band, The Flecktones. They perform about 120 shows a year and get very little money from album sales. It's a harder gig than most people realize.

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