Music Business Blog by Jason Feinberg

I am a pretty big follower of the Long Tail concept, especially since my company does online marketing and uses the niche + catalog concepts to their fullest. Here’s an interesting article that takes it even further – looking at the long tail when it comes to Jam music, a niche that has many unique characteristics.

The Long Tail of Jam Music

Excerpt:

The ever-changing set lists, which are an important characteristic of jam band music, create a huge number of diverse and unique shows which in turn offer different levels of appeal with the listeners. Most jam bands do not perform a perfectly concerted and standardized performance such as one would expect from a Madonna attraction, but rather a mutation derived from the set list, the inspiration of the musicians and the interactions between the musicians and their audience.

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