Love Addict: A new album from Caitlin Cannon
Nashville, Tennessee | Music
Music
Three years in the making, my new ten-song album "Love Addict" is DONE, BABY! Help me release it properly, so that it has a real shot in today's competitive music market.
Love Addict: A new album from Caitlin Cannon
Nashville, Tennessee | Music
Music
1 Campaigns | Tennessee, United States
101 supporters | followers
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Goal: $33,261 for distribution
Three years in the making, my new ten-song album "Love Addict" is DONE, BABY! Help me release it properly, so that it has a real shot in today's competitive music market.
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
WELCOME!! I'm Caitlin Cannon, and I spent the last three years making a kick-ass record! Please be a part of it, and help me give it the release it deserves!
Sometimes, I ask my incarcerated students to tell me what differentiates a song from a musical poem. My personal answer is that songs are conversations. And my songs are conversations I am having with you. This life can be so complicated. It comforts me to siphon out the irony, and package it into something palatable that you can also feel and understand. Songwriting is a language I’ve studied and developed, and studied and developed. It can take me years to finish writing a song, until it becomes potent enough to sustain this connection—so that when either of us feels alone, the song can remind us that we are not.
Now, I’m not going to just up and compare myself to Michelangelo here, but I do think I care as much about this record as he did the Sistine Chapel. And he couldn’t have done it without someone like the Pope to care about him caring about it!
This ASK is to fund the exact kind of marketing plan I’d be executing if I had label support (or the support of the Catholic Church, which I can assure you I do not). In other words, your support will qualify you as my record label, my executive producer, my pope! It has the power to make you all those things!!
This is different from my past crowdfunding campaigns, because THIS RECORD IS DONE, BABY!!! Think of your pledge as a pre-order, because if we're able to meet the goal, then I’m just going to give it to you! Six whole months before it’s available anywhere else. And when it comes out, you will know all the words already!
I’ve got an ALL STAR PROJECT-MANAGEMENT DREAM TEAM on board to take ‘er all the way! Trouble is, having put all of my own resources into making our product over the last few years, I need a little help signing the paychecks. This is why crowdfunding is SO essential for independent artists who invest all of their means into the art, release it sans capital or marketing strategy, and then struggle to gain traction and visibility in the over saturated consumer spaces. (Ok, maybe I am going to compare myself to Michelangelo now.)
“Cannonangelo”— The Backstory:
Between the summers of 2021 and 2022, I was touring all over the country with Side Pony (my Americana super-duo with Alice Wallace). Long drives between shows gave me time to write. When back in Nashville, I started recording with producer Misa Arriaga (best known for his work with Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson). I was surrounded by some very gifted musicians in a very inspiring environment. While they created soundscapes that made my words and melodies move, my dreams came true. We tracked everything live, letting guitars bleed into and keys, and drums, and so on. As time, funds, and generosity would allow, we added everything from banjo to cello, horns to Wurlitzer, harmonica to harmonies and thensome. Fourteen tracks and three years later, we really developed a feel, a vibe, a sound if you will! In spring of 2024, I put the first four songs we recorded out on a stand-alone EP called “Beggar”. None of those songs are on this record. They have their own story, and releasing them has primed the pipelines for “Love Addict” to follow!
Soon after “Amarillo and Little Rock” was named a finalist in the American Songwriter Song Competition, I went on to win the Songwriter's serenade in Texas and placed third at the Telluride Troubadour Contest. The next day, Saving Country Music posted these words:
“She’s not a songwriter for the winners; she's a songwriter for the broken, the downtrodden, the losers, the motherf—rs. She sings about real sh— that most other songwriters don't have the guts to broach. A crack pool player and a hilarious person on stage who could have a second career as a comedian, Caitlin Cannon is one of those country artists that slides so criminally under the radar; it angers the blood.”
This review turned out to have some rather prophetic qualities:
- My 2020 release, ‘The TrashCannon Album’ (which got a 9.5/10 rating from Saving Country Music and was named one of their “most essential albums” that year) gained affection for the opening track, “Going for the Bronze” which I did go for, and I got!
- After Jennifer Steele (30A Songwriters Festival producer and Cultural Arts Alliance director) heard “Waiting” (the biographical story of my older brother's Life Sentence) she invited me to collaborate on a Prison Outreach Songwriting Program. Since then, I have returned five times to teach my two-week curriculum to over sixty inmates and five other teacher-songwriters.
- I made my comedic/musical debut on Kill Tony! I performed one minute of stand-up, and that went pretty well! Then they made fun of my knees for ten minutes and I tried to roast them back! (That did not go as well.) Then Tony said, “We’ll do the roasting, and you do the singing.” So, I sang “Love Addict” (our title track) while I peed myself.
After the episode aired, many people came looking for the new music. I had nothing to give them! But with your partnership, that will change! I am very lucky to have such a qualified team ready to sign on for project management, PR, radio, distribution and advertising.Will you please be my record label, patrons and popes, so that I can pay the #dreamteam to do a good job for us?!
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT / PR / SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING = $12,000
-Brooklyn Basement ($4000 / mo. x 3 months)
RADIO CAMPAIGN = $3,325
Angela Backstrom ($250 per week x 12 weeks = $2500 PlayMPE cost is $325 direct to them / NPR / Non Comm & Americana Stations approx. 1900 DJs. Artist to post CDs near release approx.100)
DIGITAL AD SPEND = $6,000
(Through distribution. Projected cost based on EP stats. Youtube, Spotify — $3,000 / Facebook, Instagram — $3,000)
GRAPHIC DESIGN = $1,000
(1- CD art – 4 panel (front, inside left, right, and back) CD cover (same design as LP-sized accordingly). Square version of the cover for online sales (iTunes, Bandcamp, Facebook profile pic, etc.). 4 panel (front, inside left, right, and back) LP cover (same design as CD-sized accordingly). T Shirt design using elements from CD packaging ALL layered files and fonts for future use with branding.)
PHOTOGRAPHY and VIDEO PRODUCTION = $4,000
Press photos and photos for artwork: $1,000
Video Content: One live video, plus B roll for promotions and editing. $3,000
MERCH PRODUCTION (1ST ROUND) = $5,936
CD Baby - 300 CDs: $636
Vinyl Lab - LP @ 500: $3,150
Tennessee Scum - Ah-oo-ga-ga / Love Addict T-Shirts: $900
Trucker Hats x 100: $800
Candles and decals: $200
Temporary tattoos: $150
Koosters/Coazies: $100
Shipping: $1,000
TOTAL AMOUNT NEEDED= $33,260
STRETCH GOAL: It is my biggest dream ever to take the live incarnation of this music to as many new places and people as possible. Meeting this stretch would offset costs enough to enable me to offer the band adequate wages and lodging to take a curated immersive sonic experience on the road.
TOUR SUPPORT = $18,000
30 days of full-band touring
3 Players @ $100 / per diem x 30 days: $9,000
2 hotel rooms @ $100 ea.: $6,000
Tour Vehicle $100 / day x 30 days: $ 3,000
Ya know, it is not lost on me how special and rare it is to have gotten to have made a record like this one. If I die today, I might even feel okay about it. But, if you could hear it before then, that would be better!
I've got an exciting selection of rewards in return for your support, including merch bundles or songwriting coaching. But if I can direct your attention to the $500 reward, backers at this tier will receive an autographed photo of my a$$. If we can get this done, I’ll get a 'Love Addict' tattoo where the sun don't shine and send you an autographed photo of it. You know I will.
Having released a few records now, I know how essential it is to have the support of my community. If you made it this far, thank you for being here. Whether you pre-order, pledge, share this with 10 of your friends, or put a couple of my songs on repeat, I am grateful.
In closing, thank you so very much for your continued love and support.
XO Caitlin
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
PR, Social Media Marketing, & Project Management
Costs $12,000
I get to work with Brooklyn Basement to help promote this record. They are pros! $4000/mo x 3 months
Radio Campaign
Costs $3,325
Angela Backstrom is going to help me get "Love Addict" out to over 1900 DJs so we can get this record played!
Digital Ad Spend
Costs $6,000
We're going beyond hacking the algorithm. We're gonna own the algorithm. YouTube/Spotify - $3000 Instagram/Facebook - $3000
Graphic Design
Costs $1,000
Looking good is half the battle. I'll need my album art in digital and physical formats, as well as adapted for merch.
Merch Production
Costs $6,936
CDs, LPs, T-shirts, trucker hats, tattoos, and don't forget koosters.
Share this update!
About This Team
As an independent musician, I'm used to wearing many trucker hats. I had the pleasure of working with producer Misa Arriaga (Kasey Musgraves/Willie Nelson) on this record, bringing these 10 songs to life.
I been very lucky to have some of the most incredible musicians in Nashville play on this record. Recorded in Nashville, TN at Music City Studio B and featuring:
Electric guitar – Adam Meisterhans
Bass guitar – Jon Murray
Drums – Tommy Perkinson, Taylor Floreth
Pedal steel – Eddy Dunlap
Keys – Ryan Anderson Keith
Strings – Matt Combs and Nat Smith
I also have an incredibly capable team signed on to properly release this record and effectively market it!
Project Management / PR -- Brooklyn Basement
Distribution -- Stacey Taylor
Radio Angela Backstrom
Consultation: Little Dog
And more to follow!
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
WELCOME!! I'm Caitlin Cannon, and I spent the last three years making a kick-ass record! Please be a part of it, and help me give it the release it deserves!
Sometimes, I ask my incarcerated students to tell me what differentiates a song from a musical poem. My personal answer is that songs are conversations. And my songs are conversations I am having with you. This life can be so complicated. It comforts me to siphon out the irony, and package it into something palatable that you can also feel and understand. Songwriting is a language I’ve studied and developed, and studied and developed. It can take me years to finish writing a song, until it becomes potent enough to sustain this connection—so that when either of us feels alone, the song can remind us that we are not.
Now, I’m not going to just up and compare myself to Michelangelo here, but I do think I care as much about this record as he did the Sistine Chapel. And he couldn’t have done it without someone like the Pope to care about him caring about it!
This ASK is to fund the exact kind of marketing plan I’d be executing if I had label support (or the support of the Catholic Church, which I can assure you I do not). In other words, your support will qualify you as my record label, my executive producer, my pope! It has the power to make you all those things!!
This is different from my past crowdfunding campaigns, because THIS RECORD IS DONE, BABY!!! Think of your pledge as a pre-order, because if we're able to meet the goal, then I’m just going to give it to you! Six whole months before it’s available anywhere else. And when it comes out, you will know all the words already!
I’ve got an ALL STAR PROJECT-MANAGEMENT DREAM TEAM on board to take ‘er all the way! Trouble is, having put all of my own resources into making our product over the last few years, I need a little help signing the paychecks. This is why crowdfunding is SO essential for independent artists who invest all of their means into the art, release it sans capital or marketing strategy, and then struggle to gain traction and visibility in the over saturated consumer spaces. (Ok, maybe I am going to compare myself to Michelangelo now.)
“Cannonangelo”— The Backstory:
Between the summers of 2021 and 2022, I was touring all over the country with Side Pony (my Americana super-duo with Alice Wallace). Long drives between shows gave me time to write. When back in Nashville, I started recording with producer Misa Arriaga (best known for his work with Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson). I was surrounded by some very gifted musicians in a very inspiring environment. While they created soundscapes that made my words and melodies move, my dreams came true. We tracked everything live, letting guitars bleed into and keys, and drums, and so on. As time, funds, and generosity would allow, we added everything from banjo to cello, horns to Wurlitzer, harmonica to harmonies and thensome. Fourteen tracks and three years later, we really developed a feel, a vibe, a sound if you will! In spring of 2024, I put the first four songs we recorded out on a stand-alone EP called “Beggar”. None of those songs are on this record. They have their own story, and releasing them has primed the pipelines for “Love Addict” to follow!
Soon after “Amarillo and Little Rock” was named a finalist in the American Songwriter Song Competition, I went on to win the Songwriter's serenade in Texas and placed third at the Telluride Troubadour Contest. The next day, Saving Country Music posted these words:
“She’s not a songwriter for the winners; she's a songwriter for the broken, the downtrodden, the losers, the motherf—rs. She sings about real sh— that most other songwriters don't have the guts to broach. A crack pool player and a hilarious person on stage who could have a second career as a comedian, Caitlin Cannon is one of those country artists that slides so criminally under the radar; it angers the blood.”
This review turned out to have some rather prophetic qualities:
- My 2020 release, ‘The TrashCannon Album’ (which got a 9.5/10 rating from Saving Country Music and was named one of their “most essential albums” that year) gained affection for the opening track, “Going for the Bronze” which I did go for, and I got!
- After Jennifer Steele (30A Songwriters Festival producer and Cultural Arts Alliance director) heard “Waiting” (the biographical story of my older brother's Life Sentence) she invited me to collaborate on a Prison Outreach Songwriting Program. Since then, I have returned five times to teach my two-week curriculum to over sixty inmates and five other teacher-songwriters.
- I made my comedic/musical debut on Kill Tony! I performed one minute of stand-up, and that went pretty well! Then they made fun of my knees for ten minutes and I tried to roast them back! (That did not go as well.) Then Tony said, “We’ll do the roasting, and you do the singing.” So, I sang “Love Addict” (our title track) while I peed myself.
After the episode aired, many people came looking for the new music. I had nothing to give them! But with your partnership, that will change! I am very lucky to have such a qualified team ready to sign on for project management, PR, radio, distribution and advertising.Will you please be my record label, patrons and popes, so that I can pay the #dreamteam to do a good job for us?!
PROJECT MANAGEMENT / PR / SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING = $12,000
-Brooklyn Basement ($4000 / mo. x 3 months)
RADIO CAMPAIGN = $3,325
Angela Backstrom ($250 per week x 12 weeks = $2500 PlayMPE cost is $325 direct to them / NPR / Non Comm & Americana Stations approx. 1900 DJs. Artist to post CDs near release approx.100)
DIGITAL AD SPEND = $6,000
(Through distribution. Projected cost based on EP stats. Youtube, Spotify — $3,000 / Facebook, Instagram — $3,000)
GRAPHIC DESIGN = $1,000
(1- CD art – 4 panel (front, inside left, right, and back) CD cover (same design as LP-sized accordingly). Square version of the cover for online sales (iTunes, Bandcamp, Facebook profile pic, etc.). 4 panel (front, inside left, right, and back) LP cover (same design as CD-sized accordingly). T Shirt design using elements from CD packaging ALL layered files and fonts for future use with branding.)
PHOTOGRAPHY and VIDEO PRODUCTION = $4,000
Press photos and photos for artwork: $1,000
Video Content: One live video, plus B roll for promotions and editing. $3,000
MERCH PRODUCTION (1ST ROUND) = $5,936
CD Baby - 300 CDs: $636
Vinyl Lab - LP @ 500: $3,150
Tennessee Scum - Ah-oo-ga-ga / Love Addict T-Shirts: $900
Trucker Hats x 100: $800
Candles and decals: $200
Temporary tattoos: $150
Koosters/Coazies: $100
Shipping: $1,000
TOTAL AMOUNT NEEDED= $33,260
STRETCH GOAL: It is my biggest dream ever to take the live incarnation of this music to as many new places and people as possible. Meeting this stretch would offset costs enough to enable me to offer the band adequate wages and lodging to take a curated immersive sonic experience on the road.
TOUR SUPPORT = $18,000
30 days of full-band touring
3 Players @ $100 / per diem x 30 days: $9,000
2 hotel rooms @ $100 ea.: $6,000
Tour Vehicle $100 / day x 30 days: $ 3,000
Ya know, it is not lost on me how special and rare it is to have gotten to have made a record like this one. If I die today, I might even feel okay about it. But, if you could hear it before then, that would be better!
I've got an exciting selection of rewards in return for your support, including merch bundles or songwriting coaching. But if I can direct your attention to the $500 reward, backers at this tier will receive an autographed photo of my a$$. If we can get this done, I’ll get a 'Love Addict' tattoo where the sun don't shine and send you an autographed photo of it. You know I will.
Having released a few records now, I know how essential it is to have the support of my community. If you made it this far, thank you for being here. Whether you pre-order, pledge, share this with 10 of your friends, or put a couple of my songs on repeat, I am grateful.
In closing, thank you so very much for your continued love and support.
XO Caitlin
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
PR, Social Media Marketing, & Project Management
Costs $12,000
I get to work with Brooklyn Basement to help promote this record. They are pros! $4000/mo x 3 months
Radio Campaign
Costs $3,325
Angela Backstrom is going to help me get "Love Addict" out to over 1900 DJs so we can get this record played!
Digital Ad Spend
Costs $6,000
We're going beyond hacking the algorithm. We're gonna own the algorithm. YouTube/Spotify - $3000 Instagram/Facebook - $3000
Graphic Design
Costs $1,000
Looking good is half the battle. I'll need my album art in digital and physical formats, as well as adapted for merch.
Merch Production
Costs $6,936
CDs, LPs, T-shirts, trucker hats, tattoos, and don't forget koosters.
Share this update!
About This Team
As an independent musician, I'm used to wearing many trucker hats. I had the pleasure of working with producer Misa Arriaga (Kasey Musgraves/Willie Nelson) on this record, bringing these 10 songs to life.
I been very lucky to have some of the most incredible musicians in Nashville play on this record. Recorded in Nashville, TN at Music City Studio B and featuring:
Electric guitar – Adam Meisterhans
Bass guitar – Jon Murray
Drums – Tommy Perkinson, Taylor Floreth
Pedal steel – Eddy Dunlap
Keys – Ryan Anderson Keith
Strings – Matt Combs and Nat Smith
I also have an incredibly capable team signed on to properly release this record and effectively market it!
Project Management / PR -- Brooklyn Basement
Distribution -- Stacey Taylor
Radio Angela Backstrom
Consultation: Little Dog
And more to follow!