The Art of Promotion
| Let me tell you a little bit about Barbara
Doss Promotions. When she was twenty years old she married a man that had
already been in the music business longer than she was old. So the first
thing we did was to start teaching her how to promote. At the time of
their marriage Buster was managing a dozen Grand Ole Opry acts and had a
record company "Wizard" and promotion company in the RCA
building in Nashville, TN. Nashville had taught him a very good lesson ,
the booking agents there could book if you had a hit record but not if you
were just starting in the business. When you have a hit record your dog
could promote and book you. So Buster started his own talent agency to
promote shows and with his artists. He broke Barbara into the business in
1967, the year they married. In 1969 Buster decided he wanted his own
Grand Ole Opry type of a show so they moved to Marceline, Missouri where
in 1970 he built the first of seven "Frontier Jamborees" that he
would own. Most of the theatres were weekend shows with the cast and
during the week he would bring in major stars to the theatre, plus he
began to take the "Frontier Jamboree" cast out on the road and
Barbara learned the craft of booking and promoting those road shows.
In 1967 they moved to Austin, Texas and took over the promotion of the "outlaw acts". There Barbara was thrown into a different world and readily adapted to the new movement that took the country music world by storm. In 1980 they moved back to Nashville where Barbara and Pat Trent, Wife of Buck Trent the banjo picker for Porter Wagoner, started a booking and talent agency called Trendo Agency. Pat stayed in the office in Nashville and Barbara went on the road promoting their artists to radio and picking up new venues that their artists would perform in. But Buster got the urge to start another theatre this time in Ashdown, Arkansas where Tracy Lawrence and Rooster Quantrell got their start as Rhonda Vincent had got her start on the Missouri theatre. Again promoting those artists on the jamboree and bringing major acts into their theatre. In 1988 due to the ill health of her parents, they moved back to Tennessee and Buster retired for about three weeks and got bored and revamped his Stardust Records and the decision was made since her parents were in bad health that Barbara would only promote the artists on Stardust Records and compilations. We even sent artists on other labels to a promoter that we thought was loyal to us but it proved to be untrue. Big news will be coming soon from Barbara Doss Promotions as we are increasing staff so we can also promote other labels besides Stardust. |
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