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Book Review: Steve Gordon’s “The 11 Contracts That Every Artist, Songwriter, and Producer Should Know”

Or: The 11 Contracts That Every Professional Musician, Songwriter, and Producer Should Know

A Book Review by Dawoud Kringle 

The pantheon of music related literature is littered with books on how to succeed in the music business. They range from the invaluable to the useless. To complicate matters, the volatile and mercurial nature of the music business itself almost inevitably renders them obsolete within five years of their publication. For a book to survive in such an environment, it’s author would not only need to clearly and concisely convey the most important and indispensable information, but also to extrapolate the possible directions the music business will go in the future.

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