Business Side of Music

As a young kid growing up in a musical family in St. Louis Minnesota, he discovered KISS, and from that moment on, in addition to being a hockey player in his youth (and running his first ever 5K at the age of six), all he wanted to do was become a guitarist. His mother said that was fine, but he had to learn piano first, and after 3 years of piano lessons, he could pick up the guitar. He didn’t complete those three years of lessons until he was 18 years old. By his mid 20’s he was teaching music, even though he was self-taught.

As a stay at home dad (his wife was an editor of a medical journal), he needed to contribute to the family income, and teaching seemed the natural thing to do. That along with flipping houses (his first one took him 5 years), his outside endeavors allowed him to pursue his musical career.

In this episode, we discuss how sometimes, our creative dreams can get in the way of good financial sense, how we rely on others to handle that for us (such as record labels), or completely ignore the fact of putting money away for that rainy day. How do we finance one’s career? How do you sustain your love for music in the long run, when things aren’t quite working out the way you thought?

Donovan White is a touring guitarist for the bands “Vertical Horizon”, and the “Gin Blossoms”, along with performing gigs in Nashville TN when not on the road.

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• Recorded inside what could be an old beat up Airstream Trailer located somewhere on what’s left of Music Row in Nashville TN (Man we sure do miss Noshville, and the Longhorn Steakhouse)

• Mixed and Mastered at Music Dog Studios in Nashville, TN

• Editing and Post at Midnight Express Studio located in Olian, NY

• Production Sound Design: Keith Stark

• Voice Over and Promo: Lisa Fuson

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