Girl's gotta make a living...
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Riffing off of George's lady singer thread...
My son used to play a good bit with a guy in the Baton Rouge/New Orleans area. Brett (if I remember his name correctly) was a super versatile guy. Jazz, blues, rock, country and coffee house stuff. You wave the right number of bills around and he was your guy.
Because he was a family man, he had to make a living. He'd routinely gig five or six days/week. Messed up his vocal cords and he had to have surgery. A lot of that surgery was paid for by benefit shows put on by a wide variety of local musicians.
I was just thinking...For every Taylor Swift or GaGa, there are thousands of people you never heard of. Talented people playing in all kinds of places, from churches to honky-tonks.
Chasing the dream and just trying to make a livin'.
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Riffing off of George's lady singer thread...
My son used to play a good bit with a guy in the Baton Rouge/New Orleans area. Brett (if I remember his name correctly) was a super versatile guy. Jazz, blues, rock, country and coffee house stuff. You wave the right number of bills around and he was your guy.
Because he was a family man, he had to make a living. He'd routinely gig five or six days/week. Messed up his vocal cords and he had to have surgery. A lot of that surgery was paid for by benefit shows put on by a wide variety of local musicians.
I was just thinking...For every Taylor Swift or GaGa, there are thousands of people you never heard of. Talented people playing in all kinds of places, from churches to honky-tonks.
Chasing the dream and just trying to make a livin'.
@Jolly said in Girl's gotta make a living...:
Chasing the dream and just trying to make a livin'.
Exactly.
Tiffany's making a living. She has, probably 2 gigs a week in NOLA with her band.
During COVID, she did a lot of work from her home and the bass-player's attic via Zoom and FB - yeah I sent her some $$ when I watched, of course.
I just can't imagine working a day-to-day basis like this, relying on tips at gigs (remember how I posted about someone stealing the cash from the tip jar?).
She seems to be surviving. Her husband owns/runs a fancy-schmancy artsy-artsy glass studio on Magazine Street in Nola, so that helps.
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