DAY - 365

We have arrived!!  DAY - 365 for the second time.  I was just reading over my post on December 9th 2012, DAY - 365 and many other previous posts.   It's surreal to see the progression.  While you're living it, everything feels like baby steps.  But, when you get the chance to look back,  it's remarkable to see how far hundreds and hundreds of baby steps can take you.   For starters, they took my wife, Susan and I to Nashville, TN.  The very place in which this second blogging adventure began.

After my first Making It 365, I wasn't planning on doing another one.  I even said that in my final post.  I can't express how happy I am that I did.  I am so grateful for this project.  I am grateful for the drive, inspiration, and motivation the lord has given me.

No, I'm not going to laundry list my accomplishments.  Chances are, if you're reading this, you've been along for the whole journey.  However, this time, I can say, "YES!" I did reach my goal of signing a great publishing deal with a company I truly believe in.  It took me over 700 business days to do it. (actually, probably more like 1000 business days when you account for the time between chapters)  As I said in a previous post,  I have reached the top of that mountain.  The only thing left to do is climb the next mountain.  Cheers to the start of a brand new journey.  Wish me luck!

Finally, in traditional fashion, let's get back to business...

Today, I reached out to Dierks Bentley's management team.  I know he is looking for songs again for the next project and I sent two I think would be strong for his brand, image, and voice.  As always, fingers crossed and prayers being said.  Stay tuned!

DAY - 363+364

This week is flying by for me.  I can't believe it's Thursday already.  I had a great writing session on Tuesday night with Adam Ollendorff and Alex Berger.  We put the finishing touches on our song and started a new demo for it.  Very cool tune.  It floats in the same vein as some of the edgier British boy bands like, The Wanted.  Looking forward to finishing up the demo.  

About mid-day on Tuesday, I received a very cool email.  Jon D'Agostino sent me an email with an article on Musicrow.com about my signing with Demolition Music!!   Obviously, I didn't need a magazine article to make it real, but it did honestly feel pretty surreal to see it in writing.  Here's the link.  Just scroll down to the 3rd article if you'd like to check it out!  http://www.musicrow.com/2015/02/industry-ink-bmlg-larry-henley-demolition-music-publishing-ieba/

Yesterday morning and this morning, I finished pitching David Nail's team.  I think David is a fantastic artist.  Very cool voice and a great live presence.  I've been a fan since one of his first singles, Red Light.  I'd love to get a song on his next project! 

Tomorrow is DAY - 365. Stay tuned! 

DAY - 362

This morning, I reached out to Cassadee Pope's team again.  I haven't received a response in the 6 months that I've tried.  Possibly 3rd time's a charm?  Possibly not?  We shall see.  :)

I also started lining up pitches for tomorrow.  There's a a couple really great artists looking right now that I've specifically written songs to try and place with them.

I had a great writing session last night at Demolition Music with Vince Constantino.  Vince and I finally finished a song we've been tweaking for over 6 months.  It's gone through a few different variations but hasn't really come together until last night.  It has a cool title and a great chorus, we just had to figure out how to coax it into working.  I think we finally nailed it.

Tonight, I'm working with the amazingly talented songwriting team of Adam Ollendorff and Alex Berger.  Looking forward to finishing our first tune and perhaps starting something new!

DAY - 358-361

My apologies for the delay.  The end of last week was a whirlwind.  At the moment, I'm trying to think back on everything that happened...

The majority of last week was spent scheduling/coordinating writing sessions and new demos that are going to production.  I'm totally booked for February and booking through March.  Staring at a full calendar of fantastic upcoming writes is honestly great AND a little overwhelming.  Maybe overwhelming is the wrong word.  I just want to make sure I'm on my game at every session with fresh ideas and music.  So that means a lot of work will be going on behind the scenes!

 Between Thursday morning and this morning, I pitched Rodney Atkins whole team (A&R, Producer, Manager) for this upcoming record.  Fingers crossed, prayers said.

Last week, I shot for the stars and also pitched George Strait's team.  They actually got back to me and let me know that they are done tracking songs.  Oh well, next time. :)

Tonight, I have a cool session lined up at Demolition with Vince Constantino.  Vince and I have a written a few together and we're hoping to knock another out tonight.  Also, my fellow Demolition Music writer, Adam Searan is performing at The Building tonight, 8pm.  If you've never heard Adam Searan you need to come check it out!!  Or, at least check out his stuff online.  www.iamtheband.net 

I'll end this post with some cool news.  I can't release to many details, but it turns out I'm getting another song cut!   I got an email from Jon D'Agostino, who said out of twenty songs pitched at a meeting, the artist chose to cut four.  Two of the songs happen to from Demolition and one happens to be a song I wrote with Jon.  Sweet! Let's keep 'em coming.

 

DAY - 356+357

I can't believe how close we're coming to the end of "Making It 365 Chapter 2".   I haven't even begun looking back over the past 357 days to see what has happened but I know it's been life changing.

Between yesterday morning and this morning, I pitched Rodney Atkins' whole team.  I know he's still looking for songs for his newest project so I wanted to slide one in there to see if I can get any traction.  Last night, I had another great write via Skype with Indiana songwriter, Bill Gue.   Bill and I just finished a fun, upbeat, country song that we started a few months back.  After wrapping up on that one, we started work on a new pop song.

Tonight is track night.  I have a few songs that I need to record roughs to submit to my publisher.  I just set up a dropbox folder in which I will submit all my songs for approval.   Typically, the way it works is, you submit a batch of songs and your publisher/song plugger goes through and listens.  He/she then chooses the best of the best to do full demo versions.  Some songs are good enough to stand alone just as an acoustic/vocal or piano/vocal.   Some songs never end up seeing the light of day.  I guess they all can't be hits.  :)

More to come. Stay tuned!