Articles by Lindsey Boullt

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Grit. Discipline. Guts: A 25-Year Blueprint for the Modern Music Career

by Lindsey Boullt
March 18, 2026

I didn't start playing guitar until I was 21. No prodigy pipeline, no major-label safety net. Just a long runway of trial, failure, and forced problem-solving. Over 25 years in San Francisco, I built a career combining performance, composition, education, and production--not as separate identities, but as a single ecosystem. The model is brutally hard to execute. In the AI/streaming era, it might be one of the only models that works. The Death of the Traditional ...