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Our friend Jason Garriotte is having launching a music video contest, giving away over $1000 in cash and prizes, to anyone with a gift for creating video concepts and re-mixes.

Check out this link for the contest rules and details etc.

Here’s a video of Jason explaining his passion and reasoning for the campaign.

Here’s the interview that I did with Jason, explaining a little more about himself, and the contest as well:

Briefly introduce yourself, and the contest that you’re launching.

My name is Jason Garriotte and I release music as Chords of Truth.  A couple weeks ago I started a video contest that runs until August 26, 2012.  I am offering over $1000 in cash and prizes for essentially 2 different contests.  One is to create a

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Chords of Truth influences include classic artists like Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen and Cat Stevens. With a unique sound that has been compared to recent hit artists like Jack Johnson, Mumford & Sons, Iron & Wine, and Ray Lamontagne. I can tell that Jason is a hard working artist who pours his heart out in his songs, and I tip my hat to his D.I.Y. approach, which comes through in his music.

I got to ask lead-singer and open-mic junkie, Jason Garriotte a few questions today about what it’s like to be an independent singer-songwriter in South Carolina:

Introduce yourself to this world of strangers:

Well my name is Jason Garriotte and I’m a singer/songwriter known as Chords of Truth.   But I’m also a college

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