Well, does anyone want a spot of Tea And Sympathy? On september 1st, music producer or sing and songwriter Billie Myers will hope the answer is a resounding “yes.” While he has no real incentive to work anymore, he still enjoys music and decided to release a new album to usher in the labor day weekend in the United States (though that may not be intentional). It’ll feature 10 songs though a few may be downloadable on Itunes.

What’s very interesting about Billie Myers is that she first came onto the scene as a female singer and songwriter (who sung her own songs) which was a trend or fad in the 1990’s. Towards the end of that decade, demand for music from such people dwindled, and Billie Myers had to find ways to get her music out. Many record companies and labels turned her down but luckily for her, there was the internet.

Tea And Sympathy will no doubt sell very well simply because Billie Myers promoted the hell out of her songs and album, before it even officially releases in a few weeks. On facebook and myspace, popular people and music hangouts for people, she gave out free pieces of her music from the album to loyal and devoted fans, who clearly want more of her music. This is an important fact that many aspiring singers and bands miss, that the best music alone doesn’t get you heard, but you also need to know how to market, connect with people, and give out music when appropriate. If Billie Myers is popular enough, she can stage live performances and concerts, which most certainly will generate big bucks for the musician.

While there are no estimates to how many albums Tea And Sympathy will sell, with the loyal fan base that Billie Myers has garnered, she will no doubt have a successful selling, perhaps one of her best ever in her entire music career. It’s interesting to note that she did all the promotion independent of the music labels, where if you tried to be in this industry, you’ll quickly learn that the big record labels usually rip you off and take most of your profits.

There might be a movie about Tea And Sympathy, or an actual cafe named Tea And Sympathy, but they are not really related to Billie Myers’s album. Oddly enough there doesn’t seem a copyright problem with this, but then again it will confuse users and customers for all of these establishments. Or perhaps they are all owned or controlled by Billie Myers herself? If so, that would be brilliant marketing and diversification on her part, she certainly isn’t the many starving artists out there that I’ve come to known, like the one I saw on the R line train a couple of years ago. He had a great voice and played the guitar very well but was homeless, but that musician is a story for another day.