Bill Zabit, president and producer of Sonoma Mountain Entertainment (SME), knew that promoting musician Melanie Dekker and her first professional CD, Revealed, would be tough.
"There are a glut of indie labels," says Zabit. "The listener has no tastemakers. It's like a giant encyclopedia with no page numbers. As soon as [music is] listened to [by] a credible source, you start making inroads."
After writing the song "Fall In/Wounded Soldier," Dekker wanted a portion of CD sales to support foundations that ...