Who Needs Write-Ups in Rolling Stone?

There are days when I lament the inaccessibility of major publications to one-man operations like myself. I, like a lot of people, still assume that big print magazines are “taste-makers” that people actually read before buying CD’s. Reviewers, after all, are people that matter. Getting a blurb from something like Billboard or Rolling Stone makes for great press kit fodder, but does anyone else really care? In fact, would the person writing the quote even care? Would a quote from these people make my music any better or worse?

Then there are days like today when I get quotes from people that actually matter. They’re from people that don’t write for major publications or run radio stations. Quotes like these remind me why I do what I do:

I just wanted to thank you for the song I Will Wait for You. last FWA I nearly made a terrible decision to end a relationship with a girl that I really care about over stupid reasons that weren’t my own… We went to your show that night, having missed half of it due to our discussion about breaking up, which ended with both of us in tears.

That night you played a few songs I’ve already sent a note of thanks about, but I Will Wait for You was the one that mended everything that had been said and done that night. To this day whenever we hear it we always tend to get a little choked up.

…We just recently celebrated one year of being together, and I just keep thinking about what I would have missed out on had that night at FWA not gone the way it did.

I wouldn’t mind being photographed for the cover of Keyboard, but messages like these mean a whole lot more to me than any industry mags.

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