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Money Changes Everything The Business of Making Music

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  • ABOUT Janet Bean

    Janet Bean has a gift for penning melodic and distinctive music. Born in Florida and coming of age in Kentucky, Ms. Bean was influenced by the regional American music she heard there, as well as the punk music of the time. A multi-instrumentalist, Janet sings as well as she plays the drum kit in Eleventh Dream Day.

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  • ABOUT Fred Goodman

    Fred Goodman is the author of The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collision of Rock and Commerce, which received the Ralph J. Gleason Award for Best Music Book of 1997.

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  • ABOUT Greg Kot

    Since 1990, Kot has been the music critic at the Chicago Tribune, where he has comprehensively covered popular music --- from hip-hop to rock en espanol --- and reported on music-related social, political and business issues. With Jim DeRogatis, Kot cohosts "the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show," on national public radio. The show has a worldwide audience via its Web site, soundopinions.org, and is nationally syndicated through its home base at Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ-FM 91.5.

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  • ABOUT Jim Powers

    As a record industry executive and owner of Minty Fresh Records, Chicago's Jim Powers has proved his creativity and eye for talent time and again. He discovered the Cowboy Junkies, was one of the first to sing the praises of Liz Phair, brought the music of the Cardigans to America, and turned Ralph Covert from an aging club rocker into a kids-music phenom.

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  • ABOUT Greil Marcus

    Greil Marcus is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism.

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There is a vast difference between being Woody Guthrie, and being in the buisness of looking like Woody Guthrie.       

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Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune rock critic, moderates a discussion with authors Fred Goodman (The Mansion on the Hill), Greil Marcus (Invisible Republic and Lipstick Traces), Jim Powers, producer of The Cardigans and founder of the record label Minty Fresh, Janet Bean, singer and drummer, and Chris Dickinson, pop music critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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Music Industry, Bruce Springsteen, Sound Opinions, Greg Kot, NPR, Townes Van Zandt

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