CRESCENT Entertainment: The Piedmont Boys’ Greg Payne Talks About What Social Media Means to New Artists.
How have social media outlets changed the way you communicate, you get the word out there?
It’s huge for us. It benefits us way more than it does somebody who is already a big star, obviously.
Anybody…I can put anything on YouTube and, for some reason, it can just catch fire. It can be viral in a couple of days. Next thing you know, you’re famous. So I think it’s leveled the playing field for any new artist to put their music out. Like the YouTube and the Facebook and the iTunes. We’re on iTunes.
People can’t go to Walmart and buy my songs, next to Jason Aldean’s, but they can go to iTunes.
“Oh, here’s Jason Aldean. Here’s The Piedmont Boys. Let’s buy both.” So, it puts us on the same playing field as all the big guys.
I don’t know exactly how I feel about it. I wish people wouldn’t buy a record and burn it for all their friends, but you can’t stop it. I’m not going to hate on that. As long as the songs are getting out there and people are coming to your web site, they’re coming to your Facebook, they’re coming to your show, that’s, to me, what it’s all about.
What else do you either want to get off your chest or want people to know.
Well, we’ll probably get on another tour with the Jagermeister guys. I never hear from the guys until January or February.
I also want people to, if they’d be kind enough, to like us on Facebook and if they like what we’re doing, spread it to their friends and family because that’s what it’s all about — getting our music out there to more and more people. Letting it spread. Because I love more than anything playing music, especially playing music in front of good crowds that are receptive. The more they give back, the more I put out. We’ve been blessed…have some really good fans out there and we want to keep building on that.
To keep up with The Piedmont Boys, visit them at www.ThePiedmontBoys.com.
If you want to hear The Piedmont Boys live, catch them:
- Friday, January 27, 2012 at Rusty Rudder in Cornelius/Lake Norman, NC
- Friday, February 3, 2012 at The Handlebar in Greenville, SC
- Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Johnny and Junes in Winston Salem, NC
- Friday, February 10, 2012 at Ford’s Oyster House in Greenville, SC
- Saturday, February 11, 2012 During the Southeastern Wildlife Association at Reds in Charleston SC
- Friday, February 17, 2012 at Rhythm and Brews in Greer, SC
- Saturday, February 18, 2012 CD Release Party with Early Ray LIVE @ Puckett’s Farm Equipment in Charlotte, NC
- Friday, February 24, 2012 at Chuckwagon in Sumter, SC
- Friday, March 9, 2012 at Rusty Rudder in Cornelius/Lake Norman, NC
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The Piedmont Boys’ new album “All on Red” is now available on iTunes.
