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Jane Lynch On Making Money

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Lynch admits that she is still amazed that she gets paid to do what she loves. She says, “It is the most amazing killer job. I love to act; it’s my calling if there’s such a thing.”

Still, Lynch’s career as an actor didn’t really take off until she was over 40 — noting, “I was 40 by the time I started making money at this … and I was happy before that” — an age when many actresses are usually cast in fewer roles, not more. Reflecting on her career, Lynch does see where there have been obstacles. She explains, “I can’t say that being a woman has been an obstacle. Being gay has been an obstacle. Being six feet tall has been an obstacle.”

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Can Money Buy Music?

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Case in point: the phenomenon that several top musicians have declined to perform at the upcoming American presidential inauguration. Elton John turned it down. Andrea Bocelli reportedly considered it, but also declined, possibly fearing a backlash from his fan base. A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir quit because she “could never look myself in the mirror again with self-respect.”

All of this creates quite a big problem for America’s soon-to-be rulers, doesn’t it?

Ever since there has been such a thing as a ruling class and a music profession, each group has had something the other wants. Consider the troubadours, wandering around the south of France pretending to be in love with wealthy patronesses, who were presumably fond of showing off their pet troubadours to their wealthy girlfriends. Consider just about the entire career of Johann Sebastian Bach. This is how it goes: musicians provide the rich and powerful classes with status symbols. Music, being expensive, is “classy” in every sense of the word. By the same token, musicians are the perennially broke supplicants to the ruling class, whether we’re looking for sponsors or applying for government arts grants. That’s how the world has always worked.

Until now.

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How Do Songwriters Make Money?

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It depends on who they are. 

If the songwriters are pop writers like Max Martin or Ryan Tedder, they carefully craft a hit single, find a boy band or celebrity diva to sing it, and rake in the millions. The music publishing company takes a cut, and the performer responsible for the recording, and the record label. But if the hit is a hit, album sales, and streaming, and radio plays, and use of the song in movies and television and ads are usually significant enough that the songwriter makes bank.

If the songwriters are indie musicians like Rennie and Brett Sparks of the Handsome Family are, things work a little bit differently: they write their own music, tour and record albums themselves to promote it. On top of that, they take what they can get in royalties on their compositions.

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How To Make Money As A Musician

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After doing these gigs for 21 years, I’d have to say that finding a “hook” is your very best bet for getting this kind of work.

For me, that hook is history and culture. When I market my three-piece string band to these venues, I play up the fact that we do quirky, forgotten old American music – authentic stuff collected from cowboys and mountain people and canallers and lake sailors and old field recordings. There’s a storyline there much greater than us and how well we can play or sing.

(We also do original material and whatever else we want to, really, but that’s not as easy to “sell” to these venues, so we surprise them with that material once we’re there.)

Your Hook Doesn’t Need to be Complicated

Blues band? How about calling it “America’s music” and telling a few stories about how the blues came to be, and the migration of the music from country to city. Bam!

Singer songwriter? How about a song cycle about your favorite topic, or based on stories from your region, or anything else you’re passionate about.

Themed shows check all the boxes for these non-profits: they engage, they entertain, and they inform the community, and because of that, they’re valuable.

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