I've been building production music catalogs since 1996. What I describe here isn't the story of someone naive to the music business… it's the story of someone who kept making the same structural mistake while getting better at everything else.

A false rumor. A disgruntled musician. Twenty years of saying nothing. Here's what I learned about reputation, defamation, and the only revenge actually worth having.

The music being good is the entry requirement, not the achievement. I've talked with composers ten albums deep who couldn't understand why their career wasn't moving. The answer was rarely about the music. It was about everything that comes after it.

I grew up about a mile from Les Paul's childhood home. We went to the same public school system. I didn't really understand what all of that would mean to me until I'd already given my life to this.