Digital Delivery Report from CD Baby

The latest update to our CD Baby status page shows that as of Thursday, 3/13, the Face of Stephen tracks have been submitted to 7 digital distribution companies: iTunes, Napster, Verizon, PayPlay, Amie Street, Tradebit and MusicIsHere. The page predicts 2 or 3 weeks before the tracks show up for download from those services.

Of course, anybody can download Face of Stephen from CD Baby right now, but far more people have iTunes or accounts on other services. I'm a Napster guy myself, and I'll probably buy a $0.99 track or two just for the fun of it when the stuff shows up.

In other news, my dad cut the live tracks from our Crawford show onto CD for me the other day. I'm still not sure I'm going to submit the live stuff; I'm thinking I should have used them as "bonus tracks" on FoS, but too late for that now. I listened to the Violin live track at Nate's house over the weekend. It was with the original bass line, which I'd forgotten, along with the dozens of other things which have fallen through the ever-widening memory hole.

But hearing a tune from that gig brought a smile to my face. I remember receiving an off-stage rebuke from the... uh, "powers that be" because over six hundred people showed up—far more than expected—and there was a stage rush at the beginning of the show. That was a little too wild for GCC; we were such rebels.