Mark Stuart

The feature here concerns songwriting, and how it is not acknowledged by so much of the populace. There are people, very large in number, who DO NOT WISH TO KNOW the author of a song. In fact, the insistence of…

:Being in music as a full-time profession is the topic here, and in continuation from earlier posts. Many people have attended a large-audience concert in life. They are aware that attending a Cher performance means buying a ticket to the…

This is a continuation of discussing a career in music, being full-time. After 41 years of such a commitment I have had to accept it evaporating. The Covid-19 period has brought most public gatherings, the ones of a nature where…

Full-time career in music is the topic. Somehow, I imagined that doing it part-time would be leaving too much on the table, allowing oneself less opportunity to succeed. I thought that way about it as a teenager and think that…