Chris Michael Taylor

March 3, 2016

Some good news

It is great to hear some good news in a world that seems to focus on all the negative. This is a recent press release about our friend John Platillo’s son who came out of what seemed to be an impossible situation. The 23-year-old music student at the Blackbird Academy in Nashville had woke up in… Read More…

SHOULD MUSIC BE FREE ?

As an Indie Artist, Should You Give Your Music Away for Free or Charge? I am crediting Casey van Wensem a freelance composer, musician, and writer from Kelowna, B.C., Canada for much of the following content. As a Indie artist, you’ve probably been told over and over again that recorded music simply doesn’t have any value… Read More…

CREATIVITY AND INSANITY

“Most of the very great poets have been not only sane, but extremely business-like and if Shakespeare ever really held horses, it was because he was much the safest man to hold them. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason.” – GK Chesterton People always ask me what it was… Read More…

IMAGE TRUMPS TALENT

Since this article is mostly about integrity, let me start out by giving credit where credit is due. I took excerpts to round out my own thoughts from Brandon Seymour’s blog, but most of the content is based on the influence of my close friends and colleagues that I have traveled with over the years… Read More…

GOSPEL MUSIC AND ROCK

Christian music is generally thought to have began in the 70s with Larry Norman who sang about apocalyptic images and cracked jokes about how Rock was God’s Music, Satan stole it, and how Norman himself was stealing it back. The first true Rock band in Christian circles, Petra, whose first album was released in 1974,… Read More…

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