The Ballad of a Road Warrior
The Ballad of a Road Warrior by J.P. Kallio Being a musician I end up spending a lot of time on the road. But I guess it’s in my blood, as my father was a truck driver. I spent weeks…
Author: J.P. Kallio
Quick tip 159 Double-check
I was just wondering around the Apple music library for routing around some old favourites. I ended up on Josh Thompson’s page. I have been eagerly waiting him to release a second album for a while now. I knew there…
Sweat, blood and tears
I was reminded of something through an email I got from a some one responding to one of my emails. They expressed how they found my story inspirational and how they two would like to some day become a musician….
Quick tip 158 Don’t try to reinvent the wheel
The regular readers of my blog know I am all for innovation and creating something new. I love to see artist chomp with a new way to promote their music. Be creative, music promotion is an art form in it…
Back against the wall
I had my back against the wall this week once again. I’ve got in to pretty smooth routine in the past few months with balancing time between, writing and posting blog posts, writing, recording and releasing songs, promotion and playing…
Quick tip 157 Know your limits
Few days back I was up in the Wicklow mountains climbing a one tough peak. I knew I was pushing my limits. I was strap for time as well as I knew I had a show to do that night…
Transparency
I know we all are getting bit tired with the “streaming services killing music” saga. But there are still musicians who like to raise their fists up every time someone mentions Spotify or Apple music. Spotify has been transparent about…
Quick tip 156 Ask the right questions
For most of us in the music business, it is a constant learning curve. You need to figure out how to do this, or that all the time. What the years have thought me is that people are more than…
Assumption
Assuming something is certain way can be a dangerous thing. Why do we assume? Because someone said so? Do we trust that person? Or maybe you found the information online? Do you trust the source? When you go to your…
16th of August Blog update
This week has been a real reminder of something I talked about before, balance. balance between good times and bad times. As the regular readers here know I had some pretty serious problems with my website. It had surprisingly wide-spread…
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