Irish Song Lyrics & Free Music Downloads

It's always nice to see how well received certain webpages are. My Irish Song Lyrics website is gaining a lot of attention. Course it helps when there are so many fans of Irish Songs.

Course, our Celtic Lyrics website is always a hit, even though the site is being filled with fewer and fewer Celtic songs. Hmm... I might have to start updating the site with songs that we don't play if it keeps growing. That's always a big debate. Do I make it totally Celtic or do I reflect the music that we play. That is why I created the Irish-Song-Lyrics.com website in any case. So maybe I'll just keep updating that page.

Tonight, I up to finally start adding music to my Irish Pub Songs Podcast. I plan to use this in conjunction with my Irish Songs website... and possibly with The Bards Celtic Lyrics website as well.

This will be the start of a monthly free music download of Irish Celtic Songs. It's partially inspired by Mcguinn's Folkden. For the longest time, Roger McGuinn has given away free folk music downloads as a public service. When I came across his podcast, I finally figured out how I should approach these MP3s. I've long wanted to provide an outlet for people to find and download music, but I didn't want it to take away from our CD sales. You'd think I learned by now. MP3s equal greater CD sales, but there's still a part of me that clings to the belief you shouldn't give it ALL away.

I guess an interesting test would be to even put together a book of Free MP3 Downloads using MP3s from my Free Music Downloads Blog or my Celtic MP3s Free Music Downloads.

Cool side note. I was just at the new MP3.com and saw that they list the Brobdingnagian Bards Music Download CDs except... oddly enough, they don't have A Faire To Remember, our most-popular CD listed. How odd?

Okay, where was I? Oh, putting together a book of free music downloads. I mean my Directory of Free Msuic Downloads would be perfect for building a list. Course, I also have, what, five years of Celtic MP3s listed. Sheesh! There's plenty of material for a book, but as I've already tried selling something like that I doubt it would be too popular.

Although... with the success of my Poetry book on Cafepress, maybe that'd be a cool option. The book is currently the #1 poetry book on that website. Would Celtic music lovers be interested in a book of links to free music downloads? Doesn't seem like a good market. I'd be better off creating a book of Irish Song Lyrics using lyrics on my website... Or... even better finish making that book from my Music Marketing Articles. Yeah, that'd be best.

As you can see, I'm floundering around with a million different ideas trying to create an income for when I quit my day job in July. I'm anxious to turn my music into a full-time career. God willing, I'll get there, but it won't be an easy task. At least, not until I start pulling in additional income from other products or services or websites like my Free Music Blog. So many opportunities, and yet so little time.

For now, let me stop babbling and sign up. Thanks for listening!

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posted by Marc Gunn @ Monday, May 09, 2005