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Songwriter Resources

Song Wellspring: The Wellspring is designed to be a source of information, inspiration and income for songwriters. We hope our content will help you put your songs in front of people who are willing to pay you for them.

Many songwriters pitch music to publishers in Austin, Los Angeles, Nashville or New York, which is terrific. Our goal is to simplify some alternative methods for earning money with your original songs by placing them in film, TV, commercials and other media projects.
Club Songwriter: Welcome to the new social network for songwriters, artists, venues, producers, and music fans. At "Club Songwriter" you are able to build your own webpage, post videos and music, BLOG, send messages, make friends, and communicate with an incredible collection of professionals in the entertainment industry. We are also developing a nationwide “Deborah Allen Presents…” tour featuring Deborah with her talented songwriter and artist friends. We will have a nationwide songwriting contest voted on by the "Club Songwriter Community" with a local winner in each marketplace getting to perform with Deborah and her friends. Sponsors provide some great prizes for the winners. Club Songwriter, also invites producers, musicians, and fans to make themselves at home among the amazing talent they will discover here!
Songwriter Universe: Songwriter Universe
SongU: The first songwriting community on the Internet where all the tools you need to succeed are available online at a price you can afford. Learning alongside professional songwriters, making co-writing connections and pitching your songs...you'll find it all here at SongU.com.
Hungry for Music: Hungry For Music is a grassroots volunteer-driven 501 (c)(3) charity organization with a nationwide and international outreach. Hungry for Music's mission is to inspire underprivileged children (and others) by bringing positive musical and creative experiences into their lives. Since becoming a non-profit in 1994, Hungry for Music has brought the healing quality of music to thousands of people through its musical instrument donations, concerts, and workshops. We support our programs through memberships, benefit concerts and events, raffles, and the sale of Hungry for Music produced compact discs.
Texas Music Office: The Texas Music Office is a state-funded business promotion and information clearinghouse for the state's growing music industry.
SXSW: South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc.) is a private company based in Austin, Texas, with a year-round staff of professionals dedicated to building and delivering conference and festival events for entertainment and related media industry professionals.
SoundExchange: SoundExchange, Inc. is a dynamic, 501(c)(6) nonprofit performance rights organization embodying hundreds of recording companies and thousands of artists united in receiving fair compensation for the licensing of their music in the new and ever-expanding digital world. Modern technology makes all of our lives a little bit simpler and SoundExchange takes full advantage of its accuracy and efficiency to license, collect and distribute public performance revenues for sound recording copyright owners (SRCOs) and artists for noninteractive digital transmissions on cable, satellite and webcast services.
Bluebird Cafe: The Bluebird Cafe has gained a reputation worldwide for presenting the best original country and acoustic music seven nights a week. Performers do not generally play "cover" songs. Musicians do not jam here, and songwriters frequently are accompanied by just one guitar or piano.
Hostbaby: We help musicians have the best website possible, without needing to be a computer expert.
CD Baby: CD Baby is a little online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians.