Why I have an Email List:

From my earliest concerts in Seattle back in the mid-80s, I've kept a mailing list of the folks who come to my shows and would like to receive notice of upcoming concerts, new CDs, various projects or events that I dream up. I've always felt that there is a responsibility involved in being trusted with personal addresses and phone numbers and I have never shared or sold any part of my mail list because of that.

In this age of corporate takeover of practically everything, radio, tv, newspapers, it is more and more difficult for independent artists to find ways that we can afford to advertise our work. Therefore, having a direct link to the folks who value what we do is extremely important. I think of my mail list as almost a lifeline. Being able to send you notice - and your support over the years in responding - is the very thing that makes it possible for me to continue writing and singing for a living.

It would be a wonderful thing if I could send only email notice and get a strong response. After all, it's free and wastes no paper or trees. But there are a few things that keep that from manifesting quite the way I'd anticipated. Mainly, SPAM. We are all overwhelmed with the uninvited email advertisements that flood our mail boxes daily. As a result, many use tight filters and naturally, even those who would genuinely like to hear from me, forget to put my address in the "acceptable" column. A great many of the emails I send out come back. Next, people change email addresses quite frequently and of course, do not think to send all their favorite folkslingers an address change. Those come back, too. Finally, there are always the unpredicable things that happen to emails in cyberspace. Who has not lost a few emails or not received some that were said to be sent? It's a big ol' mystery. Oh, one more thing, many of you have never given me your email address in the first place. If you don't recall whether you have or not, please send it just in case. (though I MUST have your physical address also or I have no way of listing you and don't know where I'm sending emails.)

What I usually do before a concert is to send out early email notice. Then two or three weeks out from the show, I send a postcard. Also, Twice in the last four years I've mailed out a full blown newsletter of stories, pictures, silly tales, etc. I don't do this very often because it costs me thousands of dollars.


One thing I can assure you of is this: I will NEVER share my mail list. So your privacy will always be honored. I hope you'll sign up so I can let you know now and then that I'm still singing and maybe even talk you into coming out to listen.

Yer ol' fren,
  ~Michael
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