{"product_id":"music-business-and-monkey-business-doug-mcguire-9781452011448","title":"Music Business and Monkey Business","description":"This is how simple the complicated music business can be! I was sitting \"shooting the bull\" with the A\u0026amp;R man at Epic Records one day. He said, \"You know what I would really like to find is a white kid that sings the blues like a black guy.\" I said, \"I know a kid like that,\" or words to that effect. I then told him what I knew about Tim Williams. Tim was starving to death trying to run a Coffee House in Santa Barbara. He was only nineteen-years old, but very good. The problem was that I had no idea what to do with a Blues singer. Suddenly there was an answer to the question. The A\u0026amp;R man said, \"Bring him down!\" which meant to his office in Hollywood. When the day came to go to Hollywood we went in my car. I didn't think he had one that would make it down and back. He showed up in a pair of dark brown corduroy pants and a dark polo-type shirt, both clean, but covered with white lint. I was embarrassed to \"showcase\" him that way, but it could have been a sensitive subject so away we went. I didn't have a clue what to expect when we arrived at the office. In the now familiar get-to-the-point fashion the man said, \"Let's hear something\" after a few minutes of visiting. Tim opened his guitar case, took out his twelve string guitar and began playing as if the outcome didn't make a damn bit of difference to him. Mr. A\u0026amp;R man asked him to do some old standard, then something original that Tim had written. Then suddenly he said, \"Sounds good, let's do a thing, make a record!\" Just like that!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Doug McGuire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1452011443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781452011448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Authorhouse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Doug McGuire","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48439203201279,"sku":"9781452011448","price":28.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99c90599-eb43-4833-8ffb-edeb0ab8d8a4.jpg?v=1777176139","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/music-business-and-monkey-business-doug-mcguire-9781452011448","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}