Is it legal to play cover songs in a bar or venue? Do I have to pay the songwriter when I cover a song? Can my band make money off of a cover song we record?

Most musicians don’t understand the economics of covering another artist’s song. This blog post is intended to shed some light on how artists get paid when others cover their songs!

The one question that gets asked over and over is probably one of the most basic:

What does it mean to be a professional musician?

And look, there are a lot of schools of thought about this subject but I wanted to go ahead and provide my take on this question and what I think it really is getting to the heart of….