I'm a 40 something singer/songwriter. I've benn writing for quite a while now, and I've gotten good response regarding my stuff. And inevitably the question comes up; when're you gonna do a CD.

i've thought about this quite a bit. I've looked into the grant thing, and in fact received a demo grant at one point, so I'm somewhat familiar with the process. But I gotta say the whole application for grant/ booking studio time/massive bank loan/ etc. thing just leaves me cold.

So I'm thinking of just going really simple for now. I've got a little digital 8 track at home, and I'm thinking of putting together a kind of short run "demo" album of my tunes, and letting them go really cheap, even give em away just to get the experience of doing as much of it as I can and ending up with some kind of product. I think maybe this will either put the issue to rest for me, or, if it turns out okay, green light a bit more ambitious project.

Does this sound just naive? Dumb? reasonable? it sounds like plenty of you 'Catters out there have experience I could use. Mind sharing? SB