While there is a plethora of resources available to help you improve your composing skills, it’s likely agreed that more help is often needed and wanted after the song is written.
We all know the routine. We write a song, get it demoed and then begin the drudgery of trying to get the song to someone who would be interested in it. We email. We follow up. We make phone calls. And we wait, but mostly in vain.
In looking at ways to improve life for the songwriter, and the performer too, work has begun on a new resource specifically for getting new songs from writers to potential users. Here’s what we’re working on.
This project, known as Song Hub, will consist of a website with a database of songs available for licensing from writers of bluegrass, folk, gospel, and Americana songs. We’ll catalog the major topic and the tempo. Song seekers will have full-text-searchability of lyric sheets. Your contact
information will be there too, readily available to song-seekers.
The database will function on a registered-user basis. Some modest fees will be applied to help meet the cost of ongoing maintenance of the system. Initial cost for developing and implementing this project is being handled by benefactors.
As our work continues, we invite you to visit the Song Hub website to learn more about this resource and how it can be useful to you. You may even see a way in which you can help us with this project.
Once our work has progressed sufficiently, we will announce a Beta test which we urge you to participate. Our web site will help you stay up to date on this project.