As I write I'm listening to the John Mays episode from our Make It In Music podcast series (Series 1), and I've got to tell you that it is really good. But only if you want to make it in music.

John is the VP of A&R (Artists and Repertoire) at Centricity Records. The label is based in Washington State but John is based in Nashville.

And even though he has been in Nashville for a long time and has discovered and signed some of the most famous, most successful recording artists ever in the Christian music industry over the last 19 years, he says he has never discovered someone in Nashville!

So if you've thought all along that you have to go to Nashville to get discovered, you may want to rethink that. But then how do you get discovered? Well, John has some advice on that, too, and I'm going to shorten it to this -- kick up some dust where you are.

Of course there's a lot more in this podcast, and the whole series contains an amazing amount of good information.

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