general Editorial:
Amazon Music
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American Songwriter
Ideating for, writing, and editing Amazon Music's SEO-minded "Editor's Takes" and a series of long-form articles driving traffic to their popular [Re]Discover playlists. Covered all genres of music and all podcast categories.
American Songwriter
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American Songwriter
Currently serve as copy editor for the print version of the magazine. As associate managing editor, I primarily recruited and managed AS's freelance team.
Responsibilities: heavy edits for grammar, punctuation, syntax, writing style, and SEO; ideation and approval of all freelance articles; complete overhaul and implementation of internal style guide; handled customer care correspondence.
CeeGees.org Substack Newsletter & Podcast
CeeGees.org Substack Newsletter & Podcast
CeeGees.org Substack Newsletter & Podcast
Finding Common Ground to forge Common Good and fight Corporate Greed... (and dish about music, too, to lighten the mood a tad).
CeeGees offers current events analysis from the perspective of a straight white American male (SWAM) whose conservative Midwestern upbringing can complicate his status as a progressive at times. The goal: to defang American tribalism by listening and hearing one another.
Promotional Collateral
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CeeGees.org Substack Newsletter & Podcast
Press releases, bios, one-sheets, and more promotional collateral; email marketing copy; voiceover scripts and audio/video narration; music industry trade journalism; reviews and opinion pieces; and lots more...
CAUSE-CENTRIC Media and Event Production:
CAMPAIGN POLICY: Tenn. State Rep. Aftyn Behn
This is the one and only chunk of campaign policy I ended up being able to help Aftyn with for her first-ever political campaign...but I'm pretty sure it was this paragraph that led to her big win and ongoing tenure "CARING LOUDLY" for District 51 in the Tennessee House of Representatives! (I hear she cares about a few other issues here 'n' there as well.)
P.S.—Oh man do I wish I could climb in there and extract that extra space between my first and last names, it...is...driving...me...NUTS.......
EVENT PRODUCTION: Themed Benefit Concerts
Generating awareness and donations for nonprofits. Event titles include:
- "Concert for the Revolution to Elect Bernie Sanders" benefiting the Sanders presidential campaign (THEME: Songs of hope & revolution);
- "A Tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash & a Ton of Neil Young" benefiting Autism Speaks (THEME: Best of CSNY and Young solo);
- "A Night of Nilsson: Lay Down Your Arms" benefiting the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (THEME: Best of infamous Hollywood troubadour Harry Nilsson).
DESIGN & BRANDING: "See a Man About a Benefit" fundraiser for Volunteer Equine Advocates
Event titling (🤣), poster design, logo redesign.
MUSIC & ARTS COMMUNITY TALK SHOW: East Nashville Happy Hour
Hosted by Nashville musicians/journalists/inebriative connoisseurs Dean Moore, Jay Dmuchowski, and Andrew Leahey, East Nashville Happy Hour started as an excuse to drink and chat with other musicians and neighborhood luminaries in our kitchen (where, as we all know, all good conversations take place). The show evolved to feature.....pretty much the same drinking and chatting but in other locales.
Guests include: Lissie, Sadler Vaden, Elizabeth Cook, Ron Pope, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Will Hoge.