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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Lonnie:</p><p class=MsoNormal>I listened to a little and it sounds good.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I will likely listen to more since I find your attitude to be real enough and the production quality almost professional.</p><p class=MsoNormal>My first impression is that it may be overproduced for this style of music but this may be unfair until I listen to more.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Todays music is all over produced in my opinion.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I want to hear the emotion in your voice, you are telling a story with this type of song.</p><p class=MsoNormal>When you said the word “pack” in the first cut if you were a member of a “pack” or know a member of a “pack” I would want to hear either the pride, fear, anger or other emotion when you voice that word as a part of the sentence.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Keep your story out front and tell it like an actor playing a part in a movie.</p><p class=MsoNormal>If you are mad sound mad, if afraid sound afraid etc…</p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps less compression which may be flattening out your emotional dynamics – not sure though.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Above all tell your story and drive your listener to feel something not just listen to your music as background noise while they feed the pig.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Tell what you know and think of events in your life that drive your unconscious emotions when singing any phrase you want your audience to feel.</p><p class=MsoNormal>My review is based on the fact that I am 72 years and a product of the 60s so am big on story telling and making the audience feel something enough to drive them to some type of action.</p><p class=MsoNormal>technicals.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I lost interest in music sometime during the 80s, it just didn’t make me feel anything any more.</p><p class=MsoNormal>It was excellent but I just couldn’t get it up as it were listening to music which I felt put technical production over the story. </p><p class=MsoNormal>The bands of that era made us feel something, Chuck Berry made us jump, Beach Boys want to surf and play with hot cars and hot girls, Motown made me want to have a girlfriend and wanted to be loved, the Stones just rocked me in all directions, The Who made me angry, Beatles, James Brown Little Walter Clapton Hendrix Dillon…</p><p class=MsoNormal>They all fired emotions when I listened, and still listen to them.</p><p class=MsoNormal>It was the era of Vietnam, Civil Rights and Workers Unions.</p><p class=MsoNormal>There were allot of emotional stories and the musical artists led the way in communicating what they were experiencing as a part of their generation.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Art and music have always been more about communications than impressing us with perfection but a combination of both and the art is at its best.</p><p class=MsoNormal>I am likely off target for todays music audience but it is what it is (mf) my friend.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck and your work is very good already and with work will likely just keep getting better.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Rick USA</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and liked the r&b, blues and blues/rock.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>Sent: </b>Monday, December 7, 2020 11:11 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:musictlk@nfbnet.org">musictlk@nfbnet.org</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:lonnie.officialmusic@gmail.com">Lonnie Music</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[MusicTlk] Announcing The Demo, my debut album</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Hi all,</p><p class=MsoNormal>I'd like to share my first album with you all, and would appreciate</p><p class=MsoNormal>feedback, shares and likes. It is available on all platforms. Here are a</p><p class=MsoNormal>couple of the mainstream links though. If looking for it on other</p><p class=MsoNormal>platforms, search The Demo, Lonnie.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Itunes/Apple Music:</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-demo/1539347810?uo=4&app=itunes</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Amazon:</p><p class=MsoNormal>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NHMTCJJ</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for the support and feedback. Feel free to follow me on</p><p class=MsoNormal>my socials, listed below.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Lonnie</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-- </p><p class=MsoNormal>Follow me on:</p><p class=MsoNormal>Facebook <https://facebook.com/lonniewho></p><p class=MsoNormal>Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/lonnie_who></p><p class=MsoNormal>Twitter <https://twitter.com/wholonnie></p><p class=MsoNormal>YouTube</p><p class=MsoNormal><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8R1IZvxd0ZCFhXAGneTgA/featured?disable_polymer=1></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>MusicTlk mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>MusicTlk@nfbnet.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/musictlk_nfbnet.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for MusicTlk:</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/musictlk_nfbnet.org/richardrthomas48%40gmail.com</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>