Relaxing Blues Over 312,000 YouTube Subscribers Literally 130 Million Plus Views Relaxing Blues is a video production company that has a presence on YouTube that just keeps on growing. Their secret? Feature independent artists presenting classy communications in the form of story telling music videos or photomontages. Their process is rather unique and by major production company standards quite affordable and affordable is a word that all independent artists appreciate. Their production process weaves the artist’s lyrics into visual story telling frames that augment the musical presentation. For instance there is the highly talented Julia Cozby who resides in New Mexico who records on the Montrose Records label. Montrose chose the company to create and host their video of Julia’s new song on their popular YouTube channel. It was explosive for the New Mexico artist as the number of views exceeded 47,000 in a very short span of time. The production arm of Relaxing Blues maintains an archive of what they define as treatments. Using instinct and past success they assemble either a montage of photographs that are pleasing to the viewer or they craft a story telling video out of the assets from within their video treatment library. 312,000 YouTube subscribers are nothing to sneeze at and they wouldn’t have that number if what they are posting is not top shelf. The channel also hosts a different kind of experience as well. A viewer you can easily slip away into one of the channel’s slow blues collections, some of these musical journeys are hours long. Almost too cool for words. At the top of this article is a representation of another gifted artist, Maria Daines. Maria’s songs fit right into the groove on the Relaxing Blues channel as they are slow, deliberate, heartfelt blues releases delivered from a voice that resonates with the real deal feeling of the genre. Maria’s latest release on the Relaxing Blues channel “Ain’t You The Man” has already attracted over 121,000 views. The blues in itself, as a genre, is a feeling. It’s a destination that one goes to for any one of a number of different reasons but overall it is the gut level presentation of the combined talents of the musicians and the vocalist working together to deliver the blues. The Maria Daines experience does just that and then you add a dash of creative video and the experience is heightened even more. It’s very cool. Just about every home in America has a new flat panel smart television with its 4k clarity. Many homes also have marvelous sound configured into their system so their surround sound simply stated knocks your socks off. In these heady times of Covid-19, these experiences are the next best thing to being there and because millions of viewers are going to YouTube daily. Streaming is hot, especially musical presentations that have been crafted into video format and distributed across the net. Check out Relaxing Blues on YouTube, it’s top-notch quality but be aware - it’s easy to get lost on their channel for hours. The channel features the independent artist and their added touch is bringing music to a whole new level of appreciation through an expanding medium that is now taking the world by storm. Check it out. Open YouTube then search for Relaxing Blues. October 2020 • Rock and Blues International
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