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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: closet-folkie Date: 31 Mar 06 - 10:23 AM Congrats Bob. There's something very satisfying about even having your music out there for sale, regardless of the numbers. I recently broke even on my first solo effort, which I consider a huge success considering I had no outside promotion help. People often consider the sales of Indie artists paltry and even insignificant, which they may be in comparison to the major labels with huge promo budgets, but how many of the artists are getting more than a few pennies per CD sold? More importantly, how many of them break even on a release? I sell a few hundred and I'm in the black. Small time? Sure it is, but intensely rewarding at the same time. Not only that, I'm not worried about the label execs asking me where the single is. Enjoy the journey, and the little victories Bob; sounds like you already are. I'm off for a listen right now. All the best then. Cheers, Steve R. Steve Robinson |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 31 Mar 06 - 09:05 AM My copy arrived today, Bob, really enjoying it, including your own "Buttermilk Blues" - and I'm usually hard on "here's one of mine", compared with the classics- but this one works well alongside the others. RtS |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Cluin Date: 29 Mar 06 - 10:05 PM Congrats on your sell-out, Bob. ;) But I'm not surprised. It's a great product. And these are good times for indy artists. Sell `em out again and again and get that 2nd CD curse out of the way ASAP and on to the 3rd.. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Bobert Date: 29 Mar 06 - 07:10 AM Well, EJ, you read my mind... My old harp player has rejoined me and Gutbuchteer is lined up to do a festival real soon so... |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Lonesome EJ Date: 29 Mar 06 - 01:54 AM Damn that's great Bobert! Now if you think a Pedestrians CD might be the Next Big Thing, well.... LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Ron Davies Date: 28 Mar 06 - 11:50 PM Is there still room on the bandwagon? I'd sure like a copy. Is it possible it will be available through Camsco too? |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST Date: 28 Mar 06 - 10:40 PM WYSIWYG RE: Bobert had posted earlier ..... Where? Give a thread number or link. Many, who are on the road, might read the MC four times in a month and most of the current MC stuff is mush and not worth an extra pound for 20 minutes search an e-cafe. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Bobert Date: 28 Mar 06 - 09:08 PM Thanks fir them kind words, folks.... Yeah, I ain't expecting to sell a million copies of the CD on CD Baby but it's a good walk-thru so when I do my next one I'll know more how everything works... Plus, I have recently hooked up with my old harp player, Vince "Harp Boy" Farrabaugh, and we're going to performing together this season... We're really good together... Sniff, I've missed him so much... Next CD will have "Harp Boy" on it and it will be tons better than this one which I think is purdy danged okay, if I don't say so... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: John P Date: 28 Mar 06 - 09:12 AM God, I love the blues. Thanks, Bobert, it sounds great. I think you'll find that CD Baby is a good place to be. We've been selling through them for years. With the music we do, the sales are never overpoweringly lucrative, but it keeps a dribble coming in. The real fun, though, is seeing CDs going out to Vermont, Belize, Denmark, Austalia, Japan, and on and on. If I was in it for the money, I'd be playing pop music . . . John Peekstok |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,khandu Date: 27 Mar 06 - 08:07 PM I am the proud owner of this fine Sidewalk Bob CD! I listened intently to see it he was really playing that guitar or if he was pretending. By gosh, I am convinced he is playing it!! Bob, I have enjoyed the CD very much; I am impressed with your renditions of some fine tunes! Yes, I give you the Royal Seal of Approval! Kk |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 27 Mar 06 - 05:36 PM Thanks, Susan. Sorry folks, I didn't mean to hijack the estimable Bobert's thread. Go Bobert! Seamus |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Mar 06 - 01:23 PM Hesperis' CD-release thread is here: Hesperis Launches New CD! ... and I'd expect news on that project to be given there. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: frogprince Date: 27 Mar 06 - 01:19 PM I got those all-sold-out-on-CD Baby blues; I got those all-sold-out-on-CD Baby blues; Gotta get up and put on my sidewalk-walkin'shoes; And mail 'em some more of them "Sixteen Shades of Blues" |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: PoppaGator Date: 27 Mar 06 - 12:30 PM Hesperis probably isn't "hesperis" on her CDs and on CD baby ~ she probably uses her real name, or maybe even another pseudonym. So we wait for her to ID herself! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 27 Mar 06 - 11:58 AM Hey Hesperis! Do you have a link to your CDbaby page so 'Catters could order your CD, too? I looked but couldn't find your name in their list of artists. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: PoppaGator Date: 27 Mar 06 - 08:56 AM I ordered my Sidewalk Bob album just last week, and received my copy in the mail very quickly, so I apparently got one of those first 20 CDs ~ maybe the final one of that initial placement. I'd kinda like to think that I'm the one that caused the album to sell oout... To me, "GUEST,cynic" posed a legitimate and interesting question, something I was wondering myself and something anyone daydreaming about this kind of small-scale CD sales would like to know. Maybe if he/she hadn't indicated owned up to being cynical, there may have been less negative reaction. And, the answers did prove to be interesting indeed ~ the CD Baby site only requires a very modest initial shipment of five units, and when Bobert dared to put four times that many up for sale, he wasn't being overly optimistic. Here's to more successful marketing, Bob, whether 20 at a time, or 5, or hundreds! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Bobert Date: 26 Mar 06 - 09:33 PM Thanks, Q, CD Baby should have another box full by tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest... Let me know how you like it.... |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 26 Mar 06 - 04:01 PM Great! On the waiting list. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Bobert Date: 25 Mar 06 - 09:13 PM Well, gol danged... I think the number of posts for a Bobert-above-the-line thread is a new record for me... I think the Steve Earle one petered out at about 13 or 15 posts... But no matter.... Like someone said, things are "relative"... An' ol hillbilly ain't got no beef wid "cynic".... Heck, I can be a tad on the cynical side myself... But, with that siad, I'm still happy that folks like the CD.... I've gotten some nice emails from folks who have it and the folks over at Tweedsblues.net, who are my blues homies, as well as blues players, like it... Just nice to share music with folks... Speaking of which, I was in DC today and played at the blues jam all afternoon at Archie Edwards Barber Shop... These are my true homies and I took a bunch of CD's to them, too... Sniff... They were all very surprised since I hadn't told a sole up there I was doing this project... But, really, I owe a lot of it to these folks who have put up with me for the last 5 years and taken me aside an taught me stuff... So this CD, like the linear notes say is for the folks here at Mudcat, the folks at Tweeds and my homies in DC.... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Rustic Rebel Date: 25 Mar 06 - 07:32 PM Congratulations Bobert!- Great sounding music, nice slide work. You do a few numbers on your CD that I do myself. What more can be said for great taste! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,Stephen Lee Date: 25 Mar 06 - 06:50 PM Great news!! Keep it up! Stephen Lee |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 25 Mar 06 - 03:47 PM Hey, Bobert: I'm with Art. It's exciting when you release an album and people start to buy it. In a way, it's not the numbers that make the difference (although more is always better.) It's a long, slow process trying to get yourself down on record and it's a rush when it's finally done and they start to sell. It's a cause for celebration! We're among friends in here. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 25 Mar 06 - 03:27 PM Bobert, Way to go!! I understand how nice it feels to do that---! It's the reason I, as a folkie, liked playing small coffeehouses and house concerts. Occasionally I sold out the room. For me, it's very cool to just get a new CD out there!! And thanks to Mudcat for letting us talk about our recordings that folks here might like to know about. It's nothing short of magical, this brave new technology of the Internet. All the best to you, Art |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: gnu Date: 25 Mar 06 - 01:09 PM Better hurry. I hear they are selling like hot cakes. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,cynic Date: 25 Mar 06 - 01:05 PM sorry to disappoint you big mick, but i have no quarrel with bobert. Never met the guy and never heard his music until i played one of the samples on cdbaby. i just wanted to know the context of what constituted being sold out. bobert answered the question to my total satisfaction. maybe i'll even order a copy of the cd. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: hesperis Date: 25 Mar 06 - 12:37 PM A lot of people do put the minimum of 5 copies at CD Baby and none of them sell whatsoever, so Bobert's achievement is a real accomplishment. I put 14 on CD Baby and had 30 on me for live sales, and only have 4 left at CD Baby. (It's not folk though, save for one european tune they're all originals.) |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Big Mick Date: 25 Mar 06 - 12:29 PM cynic, cut the bullshit. Of course you meant to diss Bobert. Using a GUEST handle of cynic speaks exactly to your motives. You figured Bobert was trying to imply something that was true technically, but didn't mean what the title implied. That is because you don't know Bobert, or you do and don't like him. In either case, just be honest. To do otherwise makes me cynical of you and your motives. I, for one, am tickled for Bobert. It seems to me that with some time and appropriate promotion, our boy can get the type of attention that this CD deserves. He is a wonderful performer, and a wonderful musician. Go get 'em, Sidewalk Bob. Mick |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,cynic Date: 25 Mar 06 - 11:58 AM when someone talks about his sales in a public forum, he makes it the public's business. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Mar 06 - 11:52 AM Bobert had posted earlier that a certain number of sales would allow him to move $$ forward to his next project. I took his delight about selling out at CDBaby to mean that he had sold enough to move forward-- that's great! And the rest is not my business. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,cynic Date: 25 Mar 06 - 11:16 AM don't get me wrong, i wasn't knocking bobert. i just wanted to know what constituted being sold out at cdbaby. thanks bobert for clarifying that. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Wolfgang Date: 25 Mar 06 - 11:06 AM A response full of grace and proudness, Bobert. Joy and success is relative, we should never forget that. The new German 'superstar' (instantly forgettable) will sell 800,000 copies of his CD though his voice and singing is just half as good as Bobert's, not to mention that he can't accompany his singing. I can't sing though I'd love to but I can write boring science stuff. If I would write novels I'd hang myself if my new novel would sell 1,000 copies within the first year. If my next research methodology book will sell 1,000 copies within a year I'll proudly invite my family to dinner. Even if for you 'success' is a small figure in absolute numbers, Bobert, you deserve every bit of it and have every right to be proud. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST Date: 24 Mar 06 - 11:08 PM When you offer three and six are sold - you go GOLD!
Gotta love that CD Baby! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Bobert Date: 24 Mar 06 - 09:52 PM Okay, first of all, cynic has a point... I sent 20 to CD Baby and sent another 20 today... Considering that I haven't (as yet) had time to send a single CD to any radio station that has blues programing and the Europeans are just getting there's and will no doubt write some reviews, I'm really happy with that.... When one considers the sheer number of folks you do mail CD Baby 5 copies and wonder why no one has ordered them, I'm extremely excited... Plus, I been playin' now for over 40 years so I purdy much have a lot of this music stuff half figurated out so, ahhhhhhh, I kinda know what I can best do and how to do it... I remember back in the early 70's doing coffee house folk and people coming up afterwards asking if I had an album out... Then when I found I had more time in my life for music about 5 years ago and started playin' 'round it would be the same questions, except it was CD's this time 'round... Feels good to have this one to share and now that perfect strangers are buying it, without even seein' me perform (which is twice as entertaining as the CD, IMO) makes me feel somewhat validated as a life long folk musican... So, according to the comptroller, about another 100 in sales and we'll be outta the red and into the black which can only mean... .. another CD naming contest and another CD artwork contest.... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GutBucketeer Date: 24 Mar 06 - 04:25 PM Well I GOT MINE! from CDBABY. The delivered it toot sweet, and I've been listening to it (at work) all afternoon. Good Stuff Bobert. Here's a question. No other musicians are listed. Is it all you all of the time? If so, even better. JAB |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,cynic Date: 24 Mar 06 - 03:08 PM never mind the question. a visit to cdbaby's info page got me the answer of 5. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,cynic Date: 24 Mar 06 - 02:39 PM no apology forthcoming. i just want to know what the fuss is about. 5 copies? 50 copies? 500? |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: gnu Date: 24 Mar 06 - 02:31 PM cynic. No, it is a VERY personal question. You should apologize for asking it. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD s From: GUEST,cynic Date: 24 Mar 06 - 01:50 PM asking what sold out means is a legit question. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Ebbie Date: 24 Mar 06 - 01:46 PM More than it would take for yours, Guest cynic. *G* Congratulations, Bobert! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: gnu Date: 24 Mar 06 - 01:45 PM GUEST, cynic : All of them. Sod off. Yo!!! Goollyyy. Now I feel bad about getting a freebie for an "s". NOT!!! Good on ya Bobert! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: GUEST,cynic Date: 24 Mar 06 - 01:35 PM how many copies does it take for a sell out? |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Mar 06 - 10:38 AM AND you'll have them to sell at gigs! Seamus Kennedy is a master at doing that-- suggest you ask him to post about how he does it, here or in a separate thread. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: katlaughing Date: 24 Mar 06 - 10:29 AM COngratulations!! That's wonderful! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Cruiser Date: 24 Mar 06 - 09:50 AM Geoff, Thanks for the link. Sounds good Bobert. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 24 Mar 06 - 09:34 AM mIne's on its way according to their typically over the top e-mail RtS |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Geoff the Duck Date: 24 Mar 06 - 08:29 AM They've still got sound clips up on the CD Baby site BLICKY - http://cdbaby.com/cd/sidewalkbob. Quack! Geoff the Duck. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: jacqui.c Date: 24 Mar 06 - 08:00 AM Great news Bobert - couldn't happen to a nicer fella! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: MMario Date: 24 Mar 06 - 07:57 AM Congratulations! Wonderful news. |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: hesperis Date: 23 Mar 06 - 11:53 PM Yay! That's great news! |
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Subject: RE: Bobert's New CD sells out on CD Baby... From: Peace Date: 23 Mar 06 - 11:13 PM Congratulations, Bobert. It's very exciting. Go, ma, go. |
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