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cagleandnash — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:09:31 +0000

It’s Been a Long Time!
CAGLE & NASH eNEWS
Spring 2011

It’s been a long time since we checked in with everyone and a lot has been happening over the past few months. We’ll give you the short & skinny of it in the lines and spaces below.

Cagle & Nash Released Greg’s solo project “Red Herring Redux”

Those of you who have been keeping a scorecard know that RHR (or the Green Album we like to call it), is the fourth Cagle & Nash produced project in just over two years. Some say prolific but we just say OK as long as it ain’t horrific!

This one has got tunes on it like Back on the River, Years Later, Walkin’, Spendin’ Money and eight other solid offerings. What you hear in this release is plenty of just pure blues and blues rock/alt rock with strong playing coming out of every single instrument. Of course it helps that Cagle himself is covering lead vocals background vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and even sax on at least most of these compositions. Nash lends a hand on horn parts on a few of the tracks.

Been getting some international airplay on RHR from our usual loyal fans over in Europe and even in Greece and Japan. We’ve done a mini-blitz if you will to a couple hundred broadcast stations here in the US and any of four or five tracks should be going into some sort of rotation in the next week or so. Keep an ear open – request it if you dare.

Here are our faves or at least the faves we think should be faves.

Years Later

Back On The River

Leave Me With The Blues

Walkin’

She Musta Laid a Spell On Me

The hyperlinks will take you directly to our SoundCloud page (no waiting!)

Let us hear your thoughts. Be one of the first ten people to review Red Herring Redux on iTunes and you will receive the entire Cagle & Nash catalog. Just send us a link to your review and your snail mail address in an email.

HERE’S THE LINK TO RHR ON ITUNES

Side Projects – Cagle (The Other Side of the Ampersand)

Cagle continues his several side projects. (HaHa Understatement:).

First and foremost the Robyn Springer partnership. By now everyone knows Robyn from her contributions to most of the Cagle & Nash releases. The Ritz-Carlton of Downtown Charlotte booked her one night for their showplace lounge and the response was pretty damned amazing. So for the past couple of years Robyn Springer (accompanied by Greg Cagle) has been the primary entertainment in the Ritz Lobby Lounge on just about any Friday or Saturday evening !And yes it free.

Speaking of Robyn there is a recording project in the works being co-produced by Robyn and Greg that you will want to keep an eye out for. You’ll hear three Cagle & Nash songs on here but with an OMG fantastic interpretation! The mixes so far are sounding fine fine fine.

Another Cagle & project is Greg’s tentatively titled Next To Nowhere Country CD. Not sure what direction we’ll go yet with the public release of this but suffice to say we think the material is so strong that it should get release to the public by some means or another. Do I hear Nashville Roadtrip?

Just in case you don’t get a chance to purchase this outright, here is a sneak peek at a couple of three kickass tunes to give you the gist of the grit that it packs

Next To Nowhere (title song)

Regrets

Some Things Never Change

Late Night Every Night All Night

The hyperlinks will take you directly to our SoundCloud page (no waiting)

But wait there’s another side project as well. A very interesting collab between Greg and his son Matt Cagle. We’ll share a couple of those but these are no where near finished so try not to pre-judge (aka be haters) .

Wait

Contagious

On Television

The hyperlinks will take you directly to our SoundCloud page (PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THESE TRACKS)

B B B B

That stands for Bad Boys Blues Band. Ray Alexander put this vision together and this powerhouse of Charlotte vets gets to gig together at least once a month. Cagle on lead vocals, Rick Lee Keys and vocals, Tim Gordon, Tony “Tree” Hayes, Jon Thornton and the one and only Ray Alexander with Yelverton, Suddrith and Allen. Nash has said this band is as tight as delivering Tower of Power tunes as well as TOP themselves. Horn Section is a Million dollars !

Side Projects – Nash (The Other Side of the Ampersand)

Nash Spreading Himself The Appropriate Amount of Thin.

His regular day gig keeps Nash pretty busy but it has it’s benefits. Lately involved in producing a syndicated radio show and working with the likes of The Grammy Museum, The RIAA (The Grammys) as part of a huge musical past of 20,000 un-released tracks over three decades of some of the great artist musicians of the times in all genres.

The Churchill-Nash Records area of business is full on these days. Nash’s working laboriously to spread the word of all of the current Cagle & Nash projects including the rock project and the country project (call me) as well as the continued development of the fanbase and the most important task of getting every Music Supervisor and Production House on board with the entire Cagle & Nash catalog which will be approaching 100 songs before you know it ! (fingers crossed AND more below).

So If you think your favorite broadcast DJ or mobile DJ has not gotten the latest and greatest be sure to let us know or better yet let him know where to find us via ReverbNation. Let’s make this music viral !

HERE IS THAT REVERBNATION LINK

Cagle & Nash Side Projects – Both Sides of the Amersand)

Yes indeed another Cagle & Nash project is in the works (as we type). We’re as excited as teenaged schoolgirls to take the mothership to the next level if you know what I mean. Don’t let us scare you though – expect the unexpected – expect Cagle & Nash. Maybe lots of instrumental stuff? Maybe Soul? Maybe funky, Maybe Smooth, Maybe Rufffffff) Definitely Raw J

To assist in our writing endeavors, we’ve taken to actually appearing together in the same room at the same time and with the sole purpose of making music in public. There we said it Cagle & Nash – The Live Version is in the works. We do an occasional Thursday night over at our friend Jeff McNeice’s place DLW but we’re keeping that on the down-lo until e can work in more Cagle & Nash songs in some sort of acoustic duo arrangement. Until then just call us two guys playing jazz standards for the love of it in some really nice wine bar that you should be checking out ASAP>

OK So Lets Review – Here’s What’s New !

Robyn Springer Live NOW at the Ritz
New Side projects (Country, Rock and Robyn)
Grammy Spottings and Radioland
BBBB
Cagle & Nash New CD – what’s It Gonna Be?
Cagle & Nash Live ! (Almost)

FIND US HERE

What’s This About Undiscovered Treasures & the Grammys?

cagleandnash — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:37:55 +0000

Here is a re-post from my friend Bruce McKagan’s blog. Pay close attention to what he mentions about the Grammys Museum and the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress !

The Golden Age of Radio…Thanks to Muzak

Posted by Roberta Keener on 3/10/11 • Categorized as New

Associated Program Services Album

As you’ve read and heard in several of my latest blogs, Muzak’s early days were all about recording the industry’s best. These recordings were perfect for building their main product offering, which was music for business. However, once radio stations heard about this, they wanted in on the action. You see, back in the ‘30s and ‘40s radio would not and could not legally broadcast recordings sold to the public. If they wanted to feature music, they would book musicians into their studios and broadcast them live, which was an expensive and restrictive proposition. Muzak’s electronic transcription recordings where produced exclusively for broadcast, making them a great option and a hot commodity for radio stations across the country in those early days of radio.

By the late ‘30s Muzak’s “Associated Programming Services” (APS) began to develop their own “library services” (e.g., programming) for syndication and broadcast networks. Each week stations would receive one or two new 16” discs with 4 to 6 recordings per side for their library. Associated subscribers accumulated a library of thousands of tracks in different genres such as big band, jazz, opera, hillbilly, musicals, Negro gospel, classical, popular vocals, and lots of novelty recordings. Because of the popularity of these recordings, Muzak came to be known as the “hit makers”.

Associated also provided their radio customers with what were known as production aids. These were recordings in the form of jingles, bumpers, station breaks and IDs, announcements, musical interludes and introductions. Subscribers could literally produce their own radio shows by programming production aids along with musical tracks and local DJ voice-overs. This proved to be a highly profitable investment in a world hungry for novelty and fresh content over broadcast radio.

Muzak continued to supply content to radio stations across America all through the Golden Age of Radio (‘30s, ‘40s and early ‘50s – before TV caught on), after which time we boxed these masters up and hid them in storage for over 60 years. No wonder the Grammy Museum, Library of Congress and Smithsonian are so excited about helping us uncover these American pop culture treasures. As a matter of fact, I think that’s Bob from the Grammys calling right now. Excuse me for a second…

Contributed by Bruce McKagan

REVIEW: Soul Complete by Cagle and Nash

cagleandnash — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:22:15 +0000

Cagle and Nash – Soul Complete

Revue Date August 31, 2009

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Every now and then you find a cd that has everything – Soul Complete by Cagle and Nash falls into that elite category.

The essence of a great tune is that it is created with such simplicity you think you could write a similar one ourself.

Greg Cagle and Rick Nash are brilliant tunesmiths – there’s no doubt about that.

There are eleven songs on the cd and each one stands alone in its own right.

Right from the first track Pick Up The Phone, you start thinking Chicago and Steely Dan – not to compare but the musical brain has to focus on something seemingly familiar.

Soul Complete has a freshness and excitement about it that it makes you look forward to each new track.

Greg Cagle has a voice that drags you into the very core of a lyric. Rick Nash’s trumpet work gives a solid foundation for the lush arrangements of the songs.

This is without doubt the best vocal album I have heard this year. The whole cd is a winner as far as I am concerned, but my favourite tune is Sentimental About Everything. I love the way Kenneth Leonard Jr on organ drives the arrangement and the solo is magic to the ears.

More Love is a wonderful social commentary – the lyrics are very powerful.

We Can’t Go Back To Yesterday has a hypnotic samba beat and No One Else offers a nice change of pace.

In And Suddenly Greg Cagle does a nice duet with Di Yonna Mitchell.

Special mention should also be made of the supporting musicians who have contributed so much to this most enjoyable CD.

John Holden (Pavlov Dee)
2CCR FM 90.5,
Sydney, Australia.

Final Mixes Complete and Posted

cagleandnash — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:22:35 +0000

"Soul Complete" - Cagle & Nash (scheduled for Late February Release)

February 1, 2009

We Just uploaded to the MySpace page, the final mixes to six tracks from the “Soul Complete” CD which has a scheduled release date of Mid-February. Please give them a listen – we would love to have your feedback. You can check out samples of all 12 tracks on our website: http://www.cagleandnash.com

These 12 tracks have been compared lots of different artists but we like to think it was all those influences throughout our musical lives have been a huge part of where our own unique sound comes from.

Some really good friends of ours have lent a tremendous amount of talent to the Soul Complete project. We had our friend Kenneth Leonard Jr. (of Anthony Hamilton’s touring band) lend some awesome piano and organ chops to the project. Bill Baucom, Larry Farber and Bobby Aycock played some excellent keyboard stuff on the project as well. Sax players? Of Course! Greg played a big majority of the sax tracks but we had some really fills by Larry Gianneschi and awesome Alto sax work on solos and parts from Zach Wheeler of The Entertainers and Chris Mitchell (incredible sax talent who is still a high school student). Some really funky and tight drumming on the project from Tovaris Matthews, Steve McGuirt and Dave Rhyne (who also engineered the whole project). Joe Mier played some tight funky bass on a big majority of these tracks. If you haven’t heard of these cats, trust me you will.

Stay tuned, as we get closer to our anticipated late February CD Release. You will be able to purchase from CD Baby, iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon MP3, and a host of others.

Meanwhile you can catch the Greg Cagle Acoustic Sets regularly at Dolcetto Wine Room in Charlotte on every Friday & Saturday night.

Peace Love and SOUL COMPLETE
Cagle & Nash

Rumblefish Adds Another Nice Sync Op

cagleandnash — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:55:00 +0000

YouTube Taps Rumblefish for Music Catalog Access

Deal offers YouTube community access to fully licensed, indie-based music for use as soundtrack material in videos via free AudioSwap music tool

The combination of Rumblefish's extensive catalog of independent music with YouTube's global community and AudioSwap technology creates a powerful new music hub

Through this partnership, the YouTube audience will have easy access to the same extensive list of premier, licensed Rumblefish tracks that professional industry media creators use when making their videos.

Our customer, the professional film-maker and industry story-teller, taps the Rumblefish catalog when they need carefully curated music for films, TV shows and videogames.

This deal is exciting for indie filmmakers because it connects them directly to the same pre-licensed, quality indie music but at a price that they can afford.

an iTunes for Corporate America

Portland, OR (PRWEB) December 3, 2008 — YouTube™, the world's most popular online video community, has partnered with the sonic branding and music licensing agency, Rumblefish, providing millions of video creators access to fully licensed music from the Rumblefish catalog of independent artists.

Dubbed the "iTunes of corporate America" by CNBC, Rumblefish is providing YouTube video makers access to its audio library of over twenty-five thousand original songs through YouTube AudioSwap. People can use the AudioSwap tool to add licensed music tracks to their videos and share with the YouTube community (http://www.youtube.com/audioswap_main) [AudioSwap}. This unprecedented deal gives the YouTube community more music choices, — including independent, authentic sound from up-and-coming artists around the world.

Since YouTube launched AudioSwap in February 2007, YouTube users have been able to sample and select pre-licensed music for the purpose of soundtracking their videos, adding songs for meaning or emphasis, or musically updating an existing video with a complete music swap. Today's unprecedented Rumblefish deal furthers YouTube's goal of being a one-stop shop for people to watch user-generated films, professional music videos, and premium content.

"The combination of Rumblefish's extensive catalog of independent music with YouTube's global community and AudioSwap technology creates a powerful new music hub," said Glenn Brown, Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube. "Through this partnership, the YouTube audience will have easy access to the same extensive list of premier, licensed Rumblefish tracks that professional industry media creators use when making their videos."

Regarding the partnership, Paul Anthony, Rumblefish CEO added, "Our customer, the professional film-maker and industry story-teller, taps the Rumblefish catalog when they need carefully curated music for films, TV shows and videogames." He continued, "This deal is exciting for indie filmmakers because it connects them directly to the same pre-licensed, quality indie music but at a price that they can afford."

Rumblefish's diverse catalog includes everything from ambient, metal, experimental and electronica to the classics and full orchestral scores, giving Rumblefish's customer and now YouTube video creators a complete palette to choose from. Opening Rumblefish's catalog to hundreds of millions of YouTube users will also empower independent artists to generate revenue that was previously untapped prior to this arrangement.

The Rumblefish music catalog on YouTube will be accessible for users today through a free AudioSwap tool that will replace the entire audio track of a video with licensed music. Click here for more information on AudioSwap: AudioSwap Information}

About Rumblefish
Rumblefish Inc. has been a pioneer in the development of strategic sonic branding and music licensing services since 1996. The multidisciplinary agency develops sonic profiles that express clients' unique brand attributes and creates sonic branding programs to enhance the customer's experience with sound. Rumblefish also launched the first online Music Licensing Store (MLS) to make licensing music fast, easy and affordable. MLS, "an iTunes for Corporate America" (CNBC, January 2007)), offers a broad range of authentic, independent music for use in television programs, films, Web sites, podcasts and more. Rumblefish clients include Kaiser Permanente, National Australia Bank, NBC-Universal, HBO, Nike, The North Face, adidas Originals, Umpqua Bank, Red Bull, MTV, Mitsubishi and Pabst Blue Ribbon. For more information, please visit Rumblefish.

Rumblefish Contact:
Dawn Leonetti
e: dawn@rumblefish.com
p: 503.819-0845

YouTube Contact:
Kathleen Fitzgerald
e: press@youtube.com

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Finally, Finally – Soul Complete

cagleandnash — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:16:39 +0000

After much deliberation, gesticulations, gyrations and debates and wise cracks and snide remarks and half-hearted and half-baked attempts at other titles we have finally decided upon the title for our latest CD. Now I want repeat this out load over and over “Soul Complete”; “Soul Complete”, “Soul Complete”. The name of the new Cagle & Nash release of love songs is titled “Soul Complete“.

First we thought of titles such as “More Love” and “And Suddenly” because those are two of our actual track titles. But we decided we needed to say more about the genre and the vibe of the music: Soul. Some have called it new soul or neo-soul and some would even say classic soul; but there is one thing for sure it is a complete collection of different stories about love, the need for it and the loss of it.

There are at least five ‘singles’ potential songs on this CD in addition there are just as many more with TV or movie sync potential and we have another three in mind for pitching to other recording artists. If you want to learn more or hear some samples be sure to go to http://www.soulcomplete.com