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Thursday, April 06, 2006 "Practical singer takes care of business" At least that's the title of Paul Barile's article about me for the Pioneer Press in Chicago. (This must be the first time someone's referred to me as "practical" since I started working on this singer-songwriter thing.) It was featured in Booster and the News-Star yesterday, Skyline today. While it's not quite my Chicago debut, just my first concert as a resident, and I grew up in Metro Detroit, not Ann Arbor (though I spent the last seven years there), it's a good write up and Paul's a great guy. Wise beyond her years, Moon cautions young musicians coming up to make sure they don't just concentrate on the artistic side of the music world. "Don't focus on the music to the exclusion of the business aspects of being a musician." During the interview, he asked me what advice I would give to young musicians. My response was that music really only accounts for about 10% of what you do as a musician--the other 90% is covered by writing press releases, maintaining a website, booking gigs, marketing, etc. So while you should focus on the music, it's almost more important to focus on the other stuff, because if you don't get that done you'll never get heard. He was astounded: "That's the best response to that question I've ever heard." Apparently he's interviewed more famous musicians that tote the "believe in yourself and follow your dreams" line--which is great, but so cliche as to be useless. It's hard to follow your dreams when you have an idea of how to get there, near impossible when you aren't sure where to even start. ^ Top | 11:04 AM | | | 
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