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HEY, FOLKS, we're INUNDATED with mail in too many places. Please do NOT use No Depression mail or Myspace mail to contact us! Instead, send all inquiries, comments, etc., to tiedtothetracks@hotmail.com. Thanks!

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“TIED TO THE TRACKS” on the radio was named as part of "The Best of L.A." by Los Angeles magazine in 2006. With live in-studio performances and a worldwide web listener base, "Tied to the Tracks" has been broadcast & webcast from Los Angeles as the only acoustic Americana radio show in L.A., featuring blues-to-bluegrass-to-borderlands, Cajun-to-cowboy-to-Celtic-to-Cape-Breton-to-Quebecois, new-old-trad-alt-post folk, and the best of today’s singer-songwriter "acoustic Renaissance." (To submit your music and / or your L.A.-area gig notices, see the last section.)

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Over 300 artists & bands have been guests for performance-interviews on the radio show, including indie artists and those on labels, GRAMMY and JUNO (Canadian grammies) winners and nominees, and winners of a cornucopia of the top music and songwriting awards within their genre. “Tied to the Tracks” has itself received multiple honors and awards. Many artists debut new music for “Tied to the Tracks” listeners, including albums that became GRAMMY and JUNO nominees, and songs, instrumentals, and CDs that have gone on to win a vast variety of awards and recognitions and global airplay.

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“TIED TO THE TRACKS” features live in-studio performance-interviews every week from touring and L.A.-based artists and bands. CD airplay includes new & classic roots Americana and lots of new & indie acoustic artistry for listeners to discover. Local fans of "Tied to the Tracks" enjoy waking up to the great acoustic sounds, while fans online report the joy of finding a new radio experience and hearing artists speak from the heart during the live segments. Drop a line at tiedtothetracks@hotmail.com to say hello, and check back soon to learn where we will be available in syndication!

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Host Larry Wines selects the music for the show, and he is also a songwriter, music festival emcee, media consultant, and more.

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“TIED TO THE TRACKS” is currently negotiating its syndication throughout North America and in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. We are accepting inquiries and offers from potential affiliate stations, and signing sponsors and advertisers. If you'd like to support the show financially, or become a sponsor, please contact us ASAP at tiedtothetracks@hotmail.com. The show WILL RETURN SOON, all over the map, in addition to web simulcasts from some of the broadcast stations. More soon...

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“TIED TO THE TRACKS” is indeed headed for far-flung syndication, after airing for three years on broadcast radio every Saturday, from 6-10 am, in Los Angeles. The popular FM broadcast / simulcast was named as part of "The Best of L.A." by Los Angeles magazine in 2006.

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The TELEVISION VERSION of “Tied to the Tracks” is on the back burner. TttT was offered a weekly TV series, to debut in the Fall of 2008, but we delayed it. If that sounds crazy, we’ll tell you why: unless the radio show is in-place in the same markets, the TV show would not have a chance. Since many of TttT’s performing guests are indie artists who do not yet have broad “name recognition,” their CD tracks need to become familiar enough to radio listeners that those same listeners will want to “meet” the artists on TV. But we already know that if radio listeners get familiar with a talented artist’s good music - their CD tracks on the radio, plus their performance-interviews on the radio show - there is an audience waiting for their live performance - whether on TV, or on a stage in a venue.

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The PRINT & WEB presence of “Tied to the Tracks” is ALWAYS FRESH AND CURRENT! See the next two topics!

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The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE, and its companion NEWS, both moved to Blogspot early in 2008, because other host sites won't accommodate files that big. Yep, the number of live performances of acoustic Americana and acoustic renaissance music in and around Los Angeles, easily outnumbers the combined total number of performances of ALL other types of music COMBINED, in and around L.A. The Guide’s detailed write-ups of live performances in and around Los Angeles, PLUS its coverage of acoustic music festivals EVERYWHERE, continues to grow, and it seems like it grows exponentially, regardless of the state of the economy! (Welcome to the acoustic renaissance!) URLs for each edition of the GUIDE and the NEWS post here on our No Depression page. Or go explore (that’s always easy to do) at http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com. The GUIDE’s events are displayed chronologically. The NEWS is always topical and current. We update often, adding literally hundreds of concerts, club gigs, coffeehouse shows, and more, together with residencies and recurring events (even acoustic open mics), as these get close. You can send us your email address (regular email only) if you would like to get a brief notification each time we update the GUIDE or the NEWS. Title it “Put me on the list” and send that request to tiedtothetracks@hotmail.com. (We won’t share or sell your email address.)

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WHAT IS The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE? It’s so amazingly comprehensive that we stopped calling it a CALENDAR. It could be an almanac – except those are only published once a year, and this updates all the time. It’s a compendium, a chronicle, and - a guide, the name we picked. We changed the name because all those other calendars tell you who, where, and when, but ours also tells you WHAT. Nearly all the listings in the GUIDE have descriptions of the artist and their genre of music, with info like their recent awards, new CDs, select quotes from recent reviews, landmark venues on their latest tour, etc. Sometimes we include a bit about the venue where they’re playing, so you’ll know whether to eat before you go, or enjoy the venue’s offerings.

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Meanwhile, The ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC NEWS has features and information for acoustic musicians, songwriters, and fans alike. We bring you word of songwriting and performance contests you can enter, deadlines for those and for early-bird discounts to festivals, conferences, and more. Some of the content is fun, and some is what journalists call “hard news.” Some is aimed at offering examples of things that work well, to get you thinking about improvements to make in marketing your music, or seeking and booking gigs, festivals, etc. We strive to make all of it a worthwhile read, every edition. It’s posted separately from the calendar editions, and fresh editions of the “NEWS” post at least twice a month.

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There are old (really old) editions of the NEWS, still archived on our Myspace site, from the days before the size of posts were limited there. If you want to play music news archaeologist, use the "view all entries" button, then keep going into the past by using the "view OLDER blogs" button, as many times as it takes to get back to when Lassie was a little bitty puppy dog.

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MUSIC SUBMISSION GUIDELINES As you can imagine, we continue to be overwhelmed with CDs by artists from all over the world, and as much as we’d like to support everyone, it’s really impossible. If you’re an artist looking to be included in the ACOUSTIC AMERICANA MUSIC GUIDE, please spend a few minutes reading it, so you’ll know what to send us to include your listing. If you’re looking for airplay, we had been asking that you PLEASE LISTEN TO THE SHOW FIRST! For now, while we’re on hiatus, CAREFULLY read the following, and contact us if you think your music is a good fit for our format and content. “Tied to the Tracks” is the only ACOUSTIC Americana / acoustic renaissance radio show originating from Los Angeles. Yep, acoustic / rootsy, and our listeners are eclectic (NOT electric). If you send a death-punk-metal-electronica CD to us with one acoustic guitar cut, odds are we’ll pass. Even country rockers sometimes get upset that we can’t use their material. That means, for example, blues on a National, and bluegrass on a Martin or a Taylor are fine, but blues or bluegrass (or whatever) on a Strat are not. So, when you send a CD to us, here’s the deal: +++
1) Please, e-mail and ask for the mailing address. DO NOT throw something in the mail to the show’s former radio station, because we will NOT receive it that way.
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2) Regular CD’s only please, no MP3s or burned demos unless you ask us first. This is important because we want to be sure our listeners are able to buy your music someplace, and we want to help support your sales too!
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3) Include a post-it note with tracks you think would fit our format the best, AND include your current “one-sheet” so we can tell listeners about you and your music (if you don’t have a current one-sheet, and you should, for the sake of your career success, then take our advice and get one that does what it needs to do for you).
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4) Since you can’t listen to the show a couple of times right now before submitting, PLEASE read all the points here, in this big section of the page.
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5) Let us know if you’re playing anytime in the greater Los Angeles area. Tying airplay to your gigs is an important way to promote both you and your music, and we make every effort to do that!
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6) We need you to ask us before submitting, because you shouldn’t spend money sending music anywhere unless you get them to ask for it first, and partly because posting a mailing address is too much of an invitation to get blasted with who-knows-what in the snail mailbox. Sometimes DJs, Program Directors & mailing addresses change anyway, (like ours did) and we want to be sure we’re looking out for your stuff. And, sometimes things really do get lost in the mail, so if we know when you sent it, we know when to look. Sorry, nothing can be returned, and we cannot promise to play everything we get. But if we do play your music and you stay in touch, we’ll do our best to let ya know!

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