You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success (PB) (2020)

The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one! With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work. You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It, explains how to negotiate salary, network with musicians, prepare for tours and much more. Blaze includes stories from the road that will entertain Blues fans as well. Andrew Blaze Thomas has toured with Blues Hall of Famer and 3-time Grammy Nominated Billy Branch & the S.O.B's, Bernard Allison, Lucky Peterson, Mississippi Heat, James Armstrong, Ana Popovic, Chicago Plays The Stones, Welch-Ledbetter Connection, Dave Herrero, Jimmy Burns, Matthew Skoller, Anthony Gomes, Sherman Robertson, Chico Banks, Bill Sims Jr, John Primer, Liz Greeson and the Blue Points, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Wayne Baker Brooks, Shawn Kellerman, Nigel Mack and the Blues Attack and more. Andrew Blaze Thomas is a 2019 Blues Music Award winner, and has appeared on ABC's Windy City Live, NBC's The Golf Channel and Germany tv's Rockpalast. photo by: Clare Stewart Logan