A Conversation with Annie Gallup (continued)

PM: In a recent private conversation, we talked about how hard the music business is becoming. Do you feel like talking about that today? Is that at all relevant, how hard this business of being a singer songwriter seems to be getting?

AG: Well, I think I would put it in the big context of how hard the world is right now. I don't think we can, as singer songwriters, single ourselves out. Yeah, I just think the world is complicated. The rules have changed, and are changing.

PM: I think, also, specifically, we have to, as songwriters, figure out this download thing better and better.

AG: Or invent this thing better and better.

PM: You've been, for instance, on small labels for some time now. But people who are selling their own record--like on CDBaby, channels like CDBaby are making downloads and digital distribution possible. And so I think more avenues have to become available for that. I was very surprised, having dinner with Mary Gauthier the other night, when she told me that her sales at CDBaby are now, money-wise, nine-to-one, download to CD.

AG: Huh.

PM: And that was the first artist I heard that from. It was like, "Oh, here it comes." Because, I mean, that's not Eminem talking.

AG: Right.

PM: So that's got to get handled.

AG: Yeah, a shift in the model.   continue

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