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Thirty Gigs a Month Is the Practice | A Music Evolves Conversation with Frankie Raye, Singer-Songwriter

Thirty Gigs a Month Is the Practice | A Music Evolves Conversation with Frankie Raye, Singer-Songwriter

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Show Notes There is a version of the music career that gets written about, and there is the version that gets played. Frankie Raye lives in the second one. She performs six or seven nights a week across the greater Tampa Bay area, mixes covers with originals depending on what the room wants, and treats the gig itself as the practice session. She points at old video of herself and measures the distance she has traveled, not against a chart position, but against her own playing. That volume changes how craft works. Frankie Raye does not describe herself as a guitar player. She describes herself as a singer whose guitar carries her voice, and she is direct about the shortcuts that make a set possible: capo up, transpose on the phone, skip the bridge if the chords are ugly, come back to the chorus. The room is singing along to the chorus anyway. What sounds like a confession is closer to a working method, and the results are visible over 12 years of professional performing. Her songwriting has flipped in the past few years. Frankie Raye used to build the music first and squeeze lyrics into it. Now the hook arrives first, often from a conversation or a road sign, and lives in her phone until a riff comes along that fits. A song she is recording this year began as a complaint about venues that want maximum energy on a minimum budget. Another began as a poem written from the passenger seat on a drive south. She performs that one, "Wasting Time," live during the episode. On artificial intelligence she is unambiguous. Frankie Raye does not use it for music, and her objection is not about quality but about origin and consequence: the material was written by people, and the person who could have been hired to write a song for a friend was not hired. That position leads somewhere unexpected. If machine-generated tracks are charting, she reasons, then chasing that sound is chasing something that no longer rewards a human for reaching it. So she stopped. She writes what she wants and releases what she wants, and she has decided against the label path she once wanted, choosing instead a following small enough to know by name. The measure she offers at the end of the conversation is not streams or signings. It is 50 people who bought tickets because they wanted to be in the room. That is a quieter ambition than the industry usually rewards, and it may be the only one currently under an artist's own control. Host Sean Martin, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine, Studio C60, and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast & Music Evolves Podcast | Website: https://www.seanmartin.com/ Guest Frankie Raye, Singer-Songwriter | Website: https://frankieraye.com/ Resources Frankie Raye Official Website: https://frankieraye.com/ Frankie Raye Live Show Schedule: https://frankieraye.com/live-show-schedule Frankie Raye Electronic Press Kit: https://frankieraye.com/electronic-press-kit Frankie Raye on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frankierayemusic/ Myrtle Beach Songwriters Festival, November 13-14, 2026: https://myrtlebeachsongwritersfestival.com/ Music Evolves: Sonic Frontiers Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7290890771828719616/ Keywords frankie raye, sean martin, independent artist, singer songwriter, songwriting process, working musician, live music economy, ai in music, cover songs, gigging, tampa bay music scene, independent music career, hook writing, music, creativity, art, artist, musician, music evolves, music podcast, music and technology podcast More From Sean Martin on ITSPmagazine More from Music Evolves: https://www.seanmartin.com/music-evolves-podcast Music Evolves on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnYu0psdcllTRJ5du7hFDXjiugu-uNPtW On Location with Sean and Marco: https://www.itspmagazine.com/on-location ITSPmagazine YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@itspmagazine Be sure to share and subscribe! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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