Country And Western Artist Plunks Down A Down Payment On Fame.
Gene Gardiner is excited and nervous.
After years of writing performing Country and Western Tunes, his first professional recording will be released over about 1,600 radio stations this week end.
" I've jumped in with both feet" he says."And I can't turn around now."
Gardiner who lives in Alexandria Township "says he had difficulty landing a recording contract with a large company so he sunk $8,000 dollars into starting his own music publishing company, ENG, and a record label ENG, comes from Eugene N Gardiner, his full name.
His promoter in Nashville, Gary Bradshaw, works with other recording artists on independent labels. He marketed Gardiner's first single to Bullet and Cash Box "play lists"_periodical lists of newly published songs subscribed to by radio stations: radio programmers choose the songs from the lists that will be aired over their radio stations.
Concetta Lo Mastro - Hunterdon Democrat