Episode #33 – Mark Brinkman

The GrassCastFor the next two weeks, The GrassCast will focus on bluegrass songwriters. Episode 33 is a discussion with Mark “Brink” Brinkman, whose publishing company, Brinksongs, has been successful getting cuts on projects from Don Rigsby, The Kruger Brothers, Pine Mountain Railroad, Wildfire and others. We include audio samples from some of these recordings, and talk about how he got started as a songwriter, and how the digital download phenomenon affects independent songwriters.

This GrassCast is 17 minutes in length and the file download size is 16 MB.

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