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Happy Labor Day!

31 August 2008 By Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year again and that means that I’m in a parade. Actually, it means we all are, just not as 4-AM.  Jenny, Flora, Gary and I are going to be in the Zion, IL Labor Day Parade as The Garden Club. If you’ve seen Mary Poppins, think the chalk drawing and that’s what we look like. This has always been a fun group for me for a lot of reasons, some of it is the music, but one of the most important is because this is a big reason for becoming 4-AM, so it’s special.

So if you’re up in the Zion, IL area and want to see us, the parade starts at 1:00 CT, you can click the map link under the Next Show heading at the bottom of the page. If you want to follow me on Twitter or Plurk you’ll get some on the scene updates and probably a picture or two (I’ll see what I can work out, cell phones don’t really go with the turn of the 20th Century costumes).

No matter what you do, have a great weekend!

Happy Labor Day! originally appeared on 4-AM on 31 August 2008.

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Now with More Music!

21 August 2008 By Leave a Comment

Hi there, Jim here. I just wanted to let you know that we’ve got some more mp3s on the Sights & Sounds page so you can get to know our sound even better and see the variety of music that we perform. I hope you like them, we’re working on getting more out to you as soon as possible. Let us know what you think.

Now with More Music! originally appeared on 4-AM on 21 August 2008.

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065 – Press Releases and MP3s

21 August 2008 By Leave a Comment
recorded 21 August 2008

4-AM
I’ve been practicing writing press releases after reading a section of the book Promoting Your Podcast by Jason Van Orden and run through the standard format of a press release, what needs to go into a good press release, how to structure the writing and where and when it should be sent. I used the blog entry How to Write a Press Release to help illustrate the points.

At Any Rate
This episode’s At Any Rate was a lot of fun for me, since I got to play some of the new Demo clips that are going up on the 4-AM website. Those include Rhumba Girl, Too Late Now and I Remember You. I also played a snippet from an arrangement I’m working on of Follow Me, by Uncle Kracker.

Comments From the Podcast Gallery
Fellow Podcaster Andrea of the Geek Is Chic podcast gave feedback in the show AND an iTunes review for the show. Thank you again Andrea.

If you’d like to give your Comments from the Podcast Gallery and have them heard on the show, you can call 630.492.0487 and leave your thoughts on the voicemail line or send an e-mail to contact@WithAVoiceLikeThis.com.

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064 – Storms and Vacations

18 August 2008 By Leave a Comment
recorded 14 August 2008

Before I got into the topics at hand on this episode of With A Voice Like This, I talked briefly about the why the last show being cancelled because of a tornado that went through NW Indiana and a picture some of the podcast gallery had seen and I put the link in the show, here’s a link to the picture I took:

Lake Michigan Tries to Eat Chicago

4-AM
With one of the group being out of town for a bit, it gives us a chance to look at both legacy media and new media with 4-AM. Taking a look at BlogCatalog and its submission and approval practices. Working to get more clips out on the blog/website and looking to schedule a photoshoot as soon as possible and working on more arrangements for the group with rehearsal cuts.

Talking about the upcoming gigs for 4-AM, the Podcast Gallery asked if all the gigs were paid and that lead to a discussion about the value of doing free gigs and how we decide as a group to do something for free. Then a discussion about motivations for doing what I do specifically with my music and is it happening fast enough for me. I may be using a Mac? Yes, I could possibly be  getting back to a being a cross-platform person with the addition of a MAC G4 Cube  as a gigging computer.

Building relationships with venues by having press available for them and then linking to them through the gigs page to include pricing, location info and build audience. We want to get invited back to the venue. Building that good reputation for both the group and the venue by combining all the information into easy to access clicks. And build a little by having a different performance the night before, you can’t beat it when you’ve got a quality performance at a quality venue.

Comments From the Podcast Gallery
Fellow Podcaster SuperMom7000 from TVTalk had some feedback in this episode.

Don’t Forget
You can subscribe to the show via iTunes and leave a review if you do, Andrea of GeekisChic did and I appreciate it. You can call and leave your feedback on the Comments From the Podcast Gallery voicemail at 630.492.0487 as well and be heard on the show.

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063 – A Closing and 8 More Songs

1 August 2008 By Leave a Comment
recorded 31 July 2008

This episode of With A Voice Like This includes

At Any Rate (00:00:51)
An announcement regarding the August 1st closing of BuyMusicDirect.com and its sister site SellMusicDirect.com. This is the site where my Christmas EP With A Voice Like This Christmas was being offered as a Disc on Demand and the ideas of how to offer the EP for the upcoming Christmas season, so stay tuned on that one. as long as there is an interest, I’ll make sure that The EP will be available.

4-AM (00:04:49)
The two day, twelve hours recording sessions in which we recorded 9 (I could only remember 8 of the titles) songs for our demos and woodshedding purposes. The majority will end up with 30 second excerpts on the site to give site visitors an idea of our repertoire and style. Also discussed was how we decide on the songs we do, what media players are available for the websites (see the links below) and how to know when and where we’ll be performing.

Comments From The Podcast Gallery
Podcasters who gave feedback included Andrea from the Geek is Chic Podcast, TVSeriesFinaleFan from The Plug Show and SuperMom7000 from TV Talk.

Here’s a link to the Microsoft Silverlight player as an alternate to the Adobe Player as part of the 1 Pixel Out Audio Player WordPress plugin used here on both this site and the 4-AM.net site.

Don’t forget, you can always call in your Comments From The Podcast Gallery to 630.492.0487, write to me at contact@WithAVoiceLikeThis.com and get your thoughts aired.

And if you listen via iTunes, please feel free to leave a review of the show, it would be greatly appreciated.

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