TEXAS MUSIC PICKERS PRESENTS: TEXAS MUSIC SEMINAR 2018 Learn Network Play December 3rd-4th The Hilton College Station & Conference C t Monday 1:30 - Registration/Check-In Tuesday 2PM: Building a Brand - Merch, image, 8:30: Registration/Check-in campaigns, design, and more! 9AM: Radio Promotion: All things radio • Tiffini Brock promotion! • Mark Sanders • Debbie Green • Taylor Ashlynn • Tami Millspaugh • Jackson Conrad • Tiffini Brock 3PM: Music Law 101: copyright, publishing • Dave Smith agreements, management agreements, recording agreements, distribution agreements, 10AM: Finding Your Sound: Creativity, etc. Originality, Authenticity, and Quality! • Mike Tolleson • David Macias • Gwen Seale • Gino Genaro • Tami Millspaugh 4PM: The Pre-Release Stage : All the things you • John Dickson need to check off the list before releasing a new • Erik Herbst project! • David Macias 11AM: Publishing Presentation: An • Tiffini Brock introductory guide in to the world of publishing! • Jill McGuckin • Scott Gunter • Christina Ramirez • Alex Torrez 11:50: Lunch 5PM: Texas Talk: A journey through Texas 12:30 Touring Strategy: Touring strategy, radio, the Texas charts, Texas music scene figuring out which markets to hit, getting history, Texas music and the economics! opening gigs for bigger artists and more! • Debbie Green • Eddie Kloesel • Chris Fox • Jeb Hurt • Dave Smith • Meredith Jones • Brendon Anthony • Andres Rocha • Wayne Foster 6PM: Artist Insights: An accomplished artist will take us through their musical journey, discuss 1:30 Artist Management: Tour management, the early years, give us some insights in to some marketing, business strategy, revenue of the things they've learned along the way, and management and more! we'll pick their brain about social media, music • Gino Genaro streaming, and any advice they have for up- • Eddie Kloesel and-coming artists. • Bruce Kalmick • Mike Ryan • Alex Torrez • Wayne Foster 7PM - Break for Dinner (on your own) 2:30: The Digital Age: Social media, music 8PM-11PM Acoustic Jam and Cocktails streaming, websites, video content and more! • Rita Ballou 4:30PM: Songwriting: 3 respected songwriters • Chris Fox will share their insights on finding inspiration, • Jeb Hurt song structure, melody, writer's block, co- • Tiffini Brock writing, & more! • Drew Kennedy 3:30: Getting the Attention of Talent Buyers: • John Baumann Reaching out to talent buyers, booking shows, • Jamie Lin Wilson mistakes artists make, and how venues and festivals make their decisions 5:30PM: Artist Panel: 3 accomplished artists • John Dickson will share their insights and experiences! • Kolby Cunningham • Wade Bowen • Meredith Jones • Parker McCollum • Andres Rocha • Bri Bagwell 7PM-11PM: After Party & Acoustic Jam at The Tap Monday Jam Session The Hilton College Station & Conference Center Ballroom Solo/Acoustic Time: 7:45 PM-11:40 PM 7:45: Chuck Shaw 8:05: Will Carter 8:25: Michael Anthony Rodriguez 8:45: Damon Curtis 9:05: Dacota Deaver 9:25: Hayden Baker 9:45: Briana Adams 10:05: Hannah Kay 10:25: Jake Flint 10:45: Marcy Grace 11:05: Holly Tucker 11:25: Towne Adams Tuesday Acoustic Jam Session The Tap Time 7PM-10:30 Songswap Style 7PM: Steve Idlett, Madison Paige, Juliet McConkey 7:50 PM: Jordan Robert Kirk, Jacob Ryan Marshall, Jade Marie Patek 8:40 PM: Canaan Bryce, Michael Hess, Holly Beth 9:30 PM: Russell Boyd, Tell Runyan, Hayden Haddock Speakers for the 3rd Annual Texas Music Seminar Wade Bowen Waco native Wade Bowen began recording Solid Ground intent on making the artistic statement of his career – a high bar considering the twenty years of success he’s enjoyed – but as his personal odometer rolled over into his fourth decade, his focus is more on legacy than next Saturday night. “I started thinking, ‘how much longer can I do this and matter as a writer?’ My thinking is, I hope I can be like Guy Clark at 72 years old, still making great records that people still give a damn about. So I took my time with every aspect of this process.” Solid Ground is personal but not necessarily autobiographical, peppered with distinct south-of- the-border imagery of “Acuna,” and the nostalgic reflection of “So Long Sixth Street.” Rolling Stone spoke well of “Day of the Dead,” noting “the mariachi influence, with accordion, Spanish guitar and a horn section augmenting Bowen’s more familiar Red Dirt shuffle.” The combination is Bowen’s signature – Texas flavor strongly spicing his mix of country, blues, rock and Americana. The parched scenery, weathered outlook and gravelly vocals created a less-than-pristine album that was championed by producer Keith Gattis. Writing and vocal contributions from Andrew Combs, Jack Ingram, Waylon Payne, Angaleena Presley, Jon Randall, Lucie Silvas, and Charlie Worsham, among others.. READ MORE Parker McCollum Parker McCollum comes from a no-nonsense, hard- working family. His was the sort of upbringing where “if you’re going to do something and you’re not going to do it one-hundred percent; you shouldn’t do it all.” It’s why this 25-year-old treats each song he writes with a painstaking level of dedication, reverence, and — as he readily admits — even a bit of obsession. Parker says when a particular melody, lyric or emotion tugs at him he might stay in his room for days working on it. He can’t help himself. That’s because, for the Austin-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, the result is worth the painstaking process. Parker — who broke out with the revealing and critically adored 2013 debut The Limestone Kid and returned with the acclaimed, Probably Wrong — says, “its like the songwriting muse takes over. I don’t choose when it hits me, but when it does, I pay attention — and it’s always worth the focus it asks of me.“ READ MORE Bri Bagwell In My Defense, is a collection of ten carefully crafted songs that give her fans an inside peek of how this girl chasing a dream for over fifteen years, has blossomed into the woman living those dreams. As the record kicks in, haunting, echoey guitars set a tone of where the listener is going to go. “Asphalt & Concrete,” the first song on the record, paints a picture of a desert girl cutting loose and losing a bit of herself in the big city. Bri soars vocally as she sings, “Well I’m into sunsets and I love the sand, but I wasn’t myself in a disrupted land, with buildings and people and too many drinks in my hand.” Bri is constantly flirting with the lyric as she tussles, barefoot on the streets of Austin. “If you were a Cowboy” follows and is the slated as the first single releasing to radio and streaming outlets. A hard driving, sexy, mid-tempo tune with just enough attitude, it gives listeners a resume of what it takes to capture a confident, hard-working woman’s heart. Bri explains, “This is the only song on the record I didn’t write. It wasn’t my intention to cut outside of my craft, but my producer Rachel Loy played me the song, and I instantly looked at her with ‘I- have-to-have-this’ eyes.” As this female anthem drives, “if you had real dust on your boots, the kind that’s passed down from your roots, I bet i would fall for you, if you were a cowboy,” every woman feels the need for a strong, hard-working man, but she also has no time for anything inauthentic. READ MORE Jamie Lin Wilson “It’s a weird road we’re on right now––I guess it always has been,” Jamie Lin Wilson says. She’s sitting on her porch in D’Hanis, a tiny town on the Seco Creek in South Texas, not far from San Antonio. She laughs a little, then adds, “But nobody’s life is the same. There is no blueprint.”Thank goodness for all the lonely paths Jamie’s had to find that no one else has taken. With a voice that slides in and out of notes with easy grace, a sly sense of humor, and lyrics that highlight the details most of us miss, Jamie creates stark vignettes: intimate conversations between friends who might be lovers and lovers who can’t be friends; kids hopping from stone to stone in a graveyard; the way rolling clouds can signal a new season. She lives and works in that sweet spot where folk and country meet––Guy Clark territory. “It’s unfair that the poets and songwriters are the ones who have the songs about their lives, when maybe that’s not what’s poetic,” Jamie says. “Maybe the moments are the ones happening in everyday farmers’ lives, or to a widow, or a son.” It’s her comfort in and commitment to two distinct worlds––that of the dream-chasing artists and the dirt-under-their-nails realists––that makes Jamie and her songs not just inviting, but cathartically important. READ MORE John Baumann Fans and media alike are buzzing about the recent release of John Baumann’s latest project and new album PROVING GROUNDS, which he put out independently June 9. Hailed as a “Texas Troubadour on the Rise” and an “artist to watch” by Wide Open Country, the guitarist-singer- songwriter is currently touring in support of his latest effort across his home state through the summer. “This record feels like a coming of age project for me,” explains Baumann, “It’s the first project I’ve done that stands up on its own two feet, from the opening track to the closer. I couldn’t be more proud of it.” Adding, “I think it will resonate with anyone who has experienced new love, loss, and growing up.”READ MORE Drew Kennedy “To do this job, you have to be an extraordinarily self- centered person,” Drew Kennedy says.