![]() “I have made so many wonderful contacts in Nashville, and there are just songs floating around in the air. “I have looked at property there, and am toying with the idea of a place to call mine,” he notes. Nashville has become a creative home-away-from-home for the Toronto-based singer-songwriter and that’s reflected in the title of McLachlan’s new album. “For example, I played the last show at The Bluebird before it was closed for the pandemic.” “It’s incredible to think of how much has changed since then,” he recalls. While we’re talking numbers, A Little Place I Call Home is McLachlan’s sixth album recorded in Music City he finished recording his fifth, Heartache Motel, in 2019 just prior to COVID-19’s arrival on the world stage. The 14-item release was recorded in Nashville at Beaird Music Group studios with a packed roster of Music City A-list session players and singers - including 13-time CCMA nominated vocalist Lisa Brokop, Evan Hutchings, Eli Beaird, Pat McGrath, Rob McNelley, Luke Mosely, David Dorn, Scotty Sanders, Tammy King and Tim Buppert. ![]() Fresh from his ninth album, A Little Place I Call Home, “Gimme the Truth” lands as a demand that’s in high demand by humans everywhere.Ī prolific songwriter and avid performer with eight full length albums released since his 2003 debut, Can’t Close a Blind Eye - not to mention, seven of them rolling out since 2015 - McLachlan’s ninth, A Little Place I Call Home, was released in November 2021 via Hi5 Music. And 20% is having talent and the ‘right’ songs when those doors open to you.In a world where truth changes its appearance more often than a supermodel, Canadian country-folk artist David McLachlan is delivering a powerful dressing down of fakery with his fiery new single, “Gimme the Truth.”įrom misleading politicians to social media misinformation, McLachlan’s new roots-rock stomper issues an attention-grabbing call to clear the increasingly blurred lines between fact and fiction. “Be present, be genuine, be persistent, be kind, be available, be confident. ![]() Her secret? “Eighty percent is showing up,” Heller says. This year, she’s netted commissions of 30%-50% on more than a dozen placements for other indie artists in Citibank, T-Mobile, Hefty, Supercuts and other national ads. Under her own licensing and publishing company, Catch the Moon Music, launched in February 2014, Heller represents other indie artists, including the Highfields. It matters if you’re having fun, because if you are, people know it and it comes through in your music and keeps you working hard.” “It matters if you’re genuine and if your music is genuine. “It matters if you care about people,” Heller says. She also leads intimate master classes in-person and by video conference for 15 artists max at $300 a seat. At UCLA, ASCAP’s I Create Music Expo and other conferences, she guest lectures. Over the past few months, music labels have brought Heller inhouse to consult. “She is just a very positive personality, just like her music,” Houlihan says. By 2011, she was offering in-office concerts to music supervisors, sometimes bearing coffee. Eight years ago, she earned her cred cold calling. But Heller’s DIY formula hasn’t come easy. It’s a tall order, to be sure, but that can-do spirit and girl-next-door vibe has made a mint for this married 36-year-old mother of two, with 20 licenses just in 2015. ![]() “You want songs that people can listen to all over the country, and all over the world, for that matter, and feel like it’s familiar, like it’s their favorite song,” Heller says. And prior to “Southpaw,” both NBC and American Airlines created content with “Turn the Sunshine On.” She previously licensed “We’re Good Together” to Hasbro. Since Heller owns her masters and publishing rights, she can readily repurpose material.
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