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Let’s consider the requirements for being a U.S. Senator. Impressive intelligence? Nope. Good looks? Not necessarily. Tact? Hardly. A strong moral compass? Yeah, right. In other words, it’s already looking good for yours truly...
...banjo skills. The two clicked instantly, and have been inseparable since. In 1995, the couple decided that Brown’s background in business and West’s in record management, combined with their shared love of music, would converge quite nicely into their own record label. Compass Records was born, and in 1998, the two cemented their partnership in marriage. Their daughter Hannah is now eight months old. West says that the name of their record company is inspired by the idea of music pointing in many different directions. Compass Records’ artists are a motley...
While other labels flounder in today’s dismal economy, Compass’ ship sails away with profit on 95 percent of its releases. Brown emphasizes that though her band records through Compass, it’s not a vanity label. Indeed, the Compass website doesn’t even advertise Brown’s records on its homepage...
With over a hundred albums under their belt, Compass is setting the standard for grassroots labels worldwide. By all accounts an efficient, well-run business, the only thing cluttering Compass’ offices are Hannah’s Teletubbies. At Smith Barney, Brown worked in a 20th-story office overlooking San Francisco’s East Bay. Compass operates out of a pink cottage with a wraparound porch in Nashville, slightly off Music Row. Compass employee Brad Martin calls the office a “casual atmosphere,” full of coaches, TV sets and Hannah?...
...ceding sensitive legal issues to foreign TV executives. News Corp. has tried to add a sense of the unexpected by using nonprofessional actors and basing the episodes on actual Chinese court cases, but compared with Judge Judy, whose apoplectic reactions to evidence give her show a fierce moral compass, TV Court seems heavily scripted. "Look, she shed a tear!" says a producer as a character suing her sister over an inheritance grows lachrymose...