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The Do Not Work For List exists to warn our members, other musicians and the general public about employers who, according to our records, owe players money and/or pension, have failed to sign the appropriate AFM signatory documents required to make pension contributions, or are soliciting union members to do non-union work.

 

Here is a link to the international list: AFM (American Federation of Musicians) International Unfair List


 

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RecordingMusicians.com - Alan and Cathy Umstead are soliciting non-union recording work

through this website. Do not work for them under any circumstances without an AFM contract.

 

Below are employers who owe musicians large amounts of money and have so far refused to fulfill contractual obligations to Local 257 musicians:


J.A.M. Jimmy Adams Media (multiple unpaid contracts/pension)

Positive Movement/Tommy Sims (unpaid contracts)

Terry K. Johnson/ 1720 Entertainment (unpaid contracts/unauthorized sales - Jamie O'Neal project)

Quarterback/G Force Music/Doug Anderson 

Casa Vega/Ray Vega

Revelator/Gregg Brown (multiple bounced checks/unpaid contracts)

Rust Records/Ken Cooper (unpaid contracts and pension)

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UNPAID CONTRACTS AND PENSION

Accurate Strategies, Inc.

Adagio Music/Sam Ocampo

Wayd Battle/Shear Luck 

Beautiful Monkey/JAB Country 

Big Three Entertainment 

Bottled Lightning/Woody Bradshaw 

Bull Rush, Inc/Cowboy Troy (unpaid demo upgrade - making payments)

Cat Creek Publishing 

Chez Musical/Sanchez Harley 

Compass Productions - Alan Phillips and David Schneiderman 

Daddio Prod./Jim Pierce (making payments)

Summer Dunaway 

Field Entertainment Group/Joe Field

Goldenvine Prod./Harrison Freeman 

Golden Vine/Darrell Freeman

Greg Holland 

Home Records/David Vowell 

Hot Skillet/Lee Gibson (unpaid contract/limited pressing signature)

Mark Hybner

Kyle Jacobs 

Katana Productions/Duwayne “Dada” Mills 

Kenny Lamb 

King Craft, Inc./Michael King 

Eric Legg (multiple unpaid contracts)

Ginger Lewis 

Line Drive Music 

Lyrically Correct Music Group/Jeff Vice

MC Productions/Mark Cheney 

MCK Publishing/Rusty Tabor 

MPCA Recordings/John Titta 

Mark McGuinn 

Marty McIntosh 

Miss Ivy Records/Bekka Bramlett (unpaid upgrades)

MS Entertainment/Michael Scott 

Matchbox Entertainment/Dwight Baker

Multi-Media 

Steve Nickell 

One Shot Management

Anthony Paul Company 

RLS Records-Nashville/Ronald Stone 

Region One Records 

RichDor Music/Keith Brown 

River County Band/SVC Entertainment (unpaid demo conversion/pension)

Robbins Nashville 

Round Robin/Jim Pierce

Roxanne Entertainment 

Shaunna Songs/Shaunna Bolton 

Shauna Lynn 

Shear Luck Productions/Wayd Battle

Shy Blakeman 

Singing Honey Tree 

Sleepy Town/David Lowe 

Small Time Productions, Inc./Randy Boudreaux 

Sound Resources Prod./Zach Runquist 

Mark Spiro 

Spangle 3/Brien Fisher 

Sterling Production Mgmt/Traci Sterling Bishir 

Tin Ear (pension/demo signature)

Tough Records/Greg Pearce (making payments)

Adam D. Tucker

We 3 Kings 

Eddie Wenrick 


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UNPAID PENSION ONLY

Travis Allen Productions 

Audio RX

Blue Canyon Music/G. Randolph Compton

John Bunzow 

Jimmy Collins 

Comsource Media/Tommy Holland 

Conchita Leeflang/Chris Sevier

Ricky D. Cook 

Coyote Ugly/Jeff Myers 

Data Aquisition Corp./Eric Prestidge 

Daywind Records 

Derrin Heroldt

FJH Enterprises

First Tribe Media 

Jason Deere Music 

Matthew Flinchum DBA Resilient 

Jimmy Fohn Music 

Rebecca Frederick 

Goofy Footed 

Gospocentric 

Tony Graham 

Jeffrey Green/Cahernzcole House 

Randy Hatchett 

Honey Tree Prod. 

Howard Music Group

Engelbert Humperdinck 

In Light Records/Rick Lloyd
 
Little Red Hen Records/Arjana Olson 

Malaco 

Joseph McClelland 

Tim McDonald 

Pete Martinez 

Maverick Management Group 

Joe Meyers 

Mike Ward Music (pension/demo signature)

Missionary Music 

O Street Mansion 

Jason Morales (pension/demo signature)

OTB Publishing (pension/demo signature)

Tebey Ottoh 

Reach Ministries 

Ride N High Records 

Ronnie Palmer 

Barry Preston Smith 

Jason Sturgeon Music

Nathan Thompson 

Veritas Music/Jody Spence 

Roy Webb 

Wildfire Productions/Donna Phillips 

Write It Lefty/Billy Davis 

Michael Whalen 

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AFM NON-SIGNATORY PHONO LIST

We do not have signatory paperwork from the following employers — pension may have been paid in some cases, but cannot be credited to the proper musicians without a signatory agreement in place. If you can provide us with current contact for these employers, it will help us get your proper pension contribution for your work.

604 Records

Chris Lindsey

Heaven Productions

MCM Universal Productions

Stonebridge Station Entertainment

Straight Shooter Music