CBC Searchlight : Surf on over and vote for "Couch Surfin"

With the debut album from the Foley Mountain Playboys coming out this spring, we thought we'd throw our hat into the ring for this year's CBC Music Searchlight competition, to hopefully create some advance buzz about the album.

I don't think there is a hope in hell a country song will win this contest, but I hope you guys will prove me wrong, because it would be an outstanding thing! It would give recognition to a whole scene that is largely ignored by the CBC, or any other radio for that matter, with the exception of  community and university radio, and stations like CKUA in Alberta. And no, I am not talking about Pop-Country. That genre is well represented in the mainstream.

It seems like everyone in Canada and their dog is in this contest, so we won't be inundating you with "vote for us" posts, but we would appreciate your support. Apparently you can vote up to 10 times a day,  so if you're into it, vote a bunch! Sharing this very blog post would be helpful as well.

To the other bands competing in the contest, if you vote for us, we will vote for you. Just tweet to us @FMPlayboys with your links (after you vote for us), or post them on the Tom Savage Music Facebook page,  and we will head on over and vote for you. A little mutually beneficial promotion never hurt anyone.

'Train Keeps A Rollin' voted the Talentcast Song Of The Week

Thanks to everyone who took a moment to vote for me on Talentcast last week. It turns out that "Train Keeps A Rollin" was voted song of the week. Pretty Cool!

Here is what that means :

* Ede FM will play the Song of the Week at least 40 times. 
* All winners will be featured in the SellaBand news. 
* Winners from SellaBand will be in the Hot Music section on the main page of SellaBand.
* TalentCast plays the Song of the Week again in the next edition.

Not bad. Let's hope it kicks up the fundraising support a notch or two for my new album. By the way, if you buy three parts of the new project on Sellaband, you not only get the new (yet-to-be recorded) CD, but you also get an Exclusive EP (for those who invest only), and a copy of "Overdrive Express", the album that contains " Train Keeps A Rollin". Deals!