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From RB the other day:

Just had a really great 30 minute call with Dennis Banka at Z-104 in Carthage, TN. He is the first one to play Glenn Cummings and he really likes the music. He is keeping Glenn in the rotation, and "Big" is heard regularly there. The signal covers about 1/2 of Nashville.

Dennis is going to be buying the station soon, and will move from music director to owner/music director. He's been in the business for 13 years. He had a lot of really good things to say about his meeting with Glenn last month.

First, he said that the producers made a great decision to make the record in a certain way that has the highest technical compatibility with radio airplay. It has something to do with compressing the signal, and if it isn't done right, the song doesn't have the same sound quality over the airwaves as it does in your CD player.

He said every station manager would recognize right away whether it was done right or not - many are not. Glenn's is ready for airplay.

He said Glenn sang he whole album for him - not as an audition, but just because Glenn was excited about his record while they listened. He said he was very impressed with what he heard live without equipment, and that Glenn has the raw talent, looks, size to make this happen.

Dennis also said not everyone is ready, willing and able to go out on the road and promote the music as Glenn is about to do. They just don't have it in them to pull it off. He said Glenn does.

Anyway, it was a GREAT chat with a real industry pro that Time Warner uses to check out new recording artists and break them in on the airwaves. And he says Glenn has the goods as far as he's concerned, and he will keep playing him. Now it's up to the other music directors, DJ's, and fans, he said.

He told me about the path to slots in record stores also. It basically comes down to airplay to get into the Wal-Marts - but if he's getting local airplay somewhere, then Wal-Mart's distributor knows about it and local stores are stocked. So you don't have to conquer the world in a month - you take it the way you eat an elephant - one bite at a time. One interview at a time. One station at a time.

And one last thing - he said he gave Kenny Chesney his first airplay and met him right there at the same station -and Glenn is more talented than Kenny Chesney - at least at this stage.

This guy is clearly pulling for Glenn, and even though it's pretty evident it takes time to break through, thinks Glenn has got the goods to make a serious run at national recognition.