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Country’s Down Fall Book CRS CBS RADIO’S SURVIVAL JEFF MOUNTAIN GUIDE GARRISON OR Sessions, Showcases, The Bridge Bar & Our MOLEHILL? Custom Door Hanger The Interview PAGE 27 PAGE 3 PAGE 45 LABEL CONTACTS INSIDE! MARCH 2008 C SURVIVAL GUIDE S Our Seminar Pros Answer Eight Big Questions aybe it’s your first time at the biggest annual Peterson: A cheeseburger at Browns. It’s good, and a surefire cure for a hangover, What should I event for Country radio and the Nashville according to one unnamed MD at WUSN. music biz. Or maybe you’re a regular but eat while I’m in M Kaufman: White Castle, 2:30am. Cab it over somehow have trouble remembering key points Nashville? and order from the back seat. No better way 2 through the haze of sleep deprivation and other self- to network than walking back in to the Bridge Bar with a forty- Café. It’s awesome. Just wash your hands after inflicted impairments you endure each year. Either bagger. you leave. way, our panel of seasoned seminar experts is here to Lindy: Go Brandon: The light your path through CRS-39. to Brown’s Loveless. Period. Diner. Get Bobby Flay beat a double them on his Biscuit take a minimum of two weeks to get prepped. cheeseburger Throwdown on Food Light calisthenics and high reps with light and a glass of Network, but I think What’s this Bridge weights should do the trick. I also suggest milk so cold it that’s bogus. I have Bar I keep hearing vitamin C. Lots of vitamin C. almost freezes your never once in my life hand. Then get to the gym. put a better biscuit in Josh Brandon about? Scott Lindy, Sirius Dir./Country my mouth. 1 Programming: It’s where you meet people Wilson: Loveless Cafe is wonderful. You will who will become lifelong friends and busi- have to drive 30 miles and you will gain at least Christie Matthews, KDXY/Jonesboro, AR Mike Peterson, ness associates. Plan to make a sweep before 100 pounds. PD: The Palm! It’s like one giant meet-and- WUSN/Chicago you head to dinner, when you get back from greet. Sit at the booth next to the restroom; you PD: It’s two things, dinner and later at night. Tip: If Jimmy Rector Risser: Morton’s. Beautiful exhibit of John never know who you’ll see. depending who you tries to get you to ride the “School Bus” at Crenshaw in his natural environment. are: A can’t-get-a- the Bridge Bar, take him up on it. Once. If he Monk: Eat anything you want at the Pie drink cramp-fest full offers a second ride, back away slowly. John Paul, KUPL/Portland PD: Hermitage Wagon because you can afford it. of shallow eye contact, meaningless hugs, and Teddi Bonadies, Universal South VPP: It’s Mike Peterson obnoxious yelling in a must-see experience, at least once in your an attempt to hold very life. Look for [Universal South Southwest Mike’s Expert Eats forgettable conversa- rep] Allen Mitchell. tions. Or, the world’s most power networking Montage’s Mike Jack’s Bar-b-Que (416 Broadway): “I vacuum that sucks in an amazing variety of Keith Kaufman, Wilson gave us a always get the brisket sandwich and socialites from every corner of the music and WSIX/Nashville PD: tour of some of baked beans.” radio industry. I’m not really familiar Nashville’s best with it, but if I were eats last summer, Monell’s (1235 6th Ave. N.): Charlie Monk: The temporary office of I’d tell you to make and we asked “For a short cab ride, freelance executives and ex-promotion people friends with Brad the him to give it who no longer have expense accounts. Ask, bartender. Ask him another go, with one the original Monell’s offers home cooking “Who’s paying?” Keith Kaufman nicely to keep an eye caveat: We requested on you because Brad, establishments that are walking served family style. JoJamie Hahr, Valory SE rep: A magical better than anyone, can distance from the Convention Center. Spin the lazy susan place high in the sky at the Renaissance where tell when you’ve hit the magical point. That’s He complied, for the most part. and pass to odd friendships are born, really bad records how I’d plan for it if I were familiar with the the left. Great Broadway Brewhouse (317 B’way): are added, and time stands still. Prepare for place. fried chicken “Great wings I like to order naked the magic by drinking heavily every day lead- and green with hot sauce on the side. The ing up to CRS, starting now. Christy Wilson, Premiere-Big D & Bubba beans.” Mgr./Affiliate Mtkg: It is a bridge – a bridge gumbo is great and they have more Josh Brandon, WOWF/Crossville, TN between you and your company, your career than 100 beers on tap.” PD: I got to meet Montgomery Gentry, Toby and your future. Plan very carefully and watch Keith, Gary LeVox and many more big artists the business deals you make under the bridge, Piranhas Bar & Grill (113 2nd Ave. N.): just because I was hanging out there. Those I mean, under the influence of the bridge. “They’ve got great Pittsburgh-style are experiences you share with your listeners sandwiches. You can get a Philly (leaving out the throwing-up-your-pancreas Royce Risser, UMGN SVPP: All bets are cheese steak with the fries already part of the story when telling it on air). off. The Bridge Bar has been renovated and on it, or one of their good chili- looks a bit more New York than it’s previous Annie Sandor, WKIS/Miami Dir./Mktg. & existence. So I would plan on wearing a suit cheese dogs.” Promo: Dress is business casual, but “dress to for sure; like you just left work as a NYC impress” is a good rule of thumb. You should attorney. Be very, very professional. Rippy’s (429 B’way): “The first of two barbecue places that is in walking distance. I love their slab of ribs.” BRAD THE BARTENDER: “Keith Kaufman? Never heard of him.” Contents 3 CRS Survival Guide 22 Pres. Award: Michael Milom – Chuck Aly – Erin Duvall 9 Music That Shaped My Life 27 Fall Book: Mountain, Molehill? – Chuck Aly – Lon Helton, Chuck Aly Hall Of Fame – Jeff Green 33 CRS-39 New Faces – Peter Cronin 11 Jaye Albright 12 Bill Cody 39 Label Contacts – Erin Duvall 14 Bobby Kraig 16 Michael Owens 43 Looking Back At New Faces 18 Bob Robbins – Chuck Aly 20 Achievement: Charlie Daniels 45 The Interview: Jeff Garrison – Erin Duvall – Lon Helton 03 08 3 Chris Huff, KSCS/ Paul: In this Lindy: Man up and get Dallas APD/MD: C order: Beer. Sessions. the total experience. There’s no secret. It SURVIVAL GUIDE Beer. Sessions. Beer. You can recover when What’s the secret simply boils down to S Music. Sessions. you get home. what interests you. Beer. Sleep. to picking must-see Regardless of which Sandor: You can’t. sessions? sessions you attend, you’re going to come Brandon: First-timers are going to be Don’t try to. Sugar-Free 3 away with new ideas and perspectives. tempted to hit all the suites and parties. Red Bull works for me! Settle down, turbo. It’s like college. You John Paul Matthews: I try to Kaufman: Bring three people from your sta- party too much your first semester, you’re Matthews: Sleep? find a panel that fits a tion and cover them all. So says the vice-chair back home after Christmas slopping tacos. What’s that? To be honest, I come back particular need I have of the Agenda Committee. Remember that you can buy CDs of the pan- totally exhausted because I don’t want to as a programmer, or els you don’t make. miss a thing. But a panel that focuses Wilson: Clone yourself or buy the take-home I usually go to bed at the same time, on an area where I session CDs. All the sessions are must-see. by 2am and am up I come back so think my station could about 6:30. I can do How should I rejuvenated and improve. CRS is not Risser: Corkboard and that for four days. divide my day fired up about coun- just a place to party, it’s a dart. Or ask MCA’s try music and our Christie Matthews a great place to hear Joe Putnam. He is our Peterson: Sleep at between sessions, industry as a whole. and learn from the best resident expert on the CRS is like sleep 4music and sleep? CRS is like a big in our business. The Q&A session at the end best panels to see. the first week after shot of B-12! of panels have helped me tremendously over having a baby. You the years. Brandon: Small may think you can navigate some rest, but Market Superstars is it’s just not going to happen. Once you Paul: Follow the guy who’s in the hallway the must attend panel Royce Risser take sleep out of the equation it’s relatively talking really loud about his research and this year. I don’t say simple to balance sessions and music. radio philosophies. He’s probably scoped out that only because I’m the best sessions. the guy that put the thing together, but also Kaufman: Go to the sessions.