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Try to imagine it.
You’re an established country musician. You’ve got a career. A regular
gig. You’re writing songs, recording songs, selling records. Everything is just humming
along and then all of a sudden – or at least it
seems
that way – this tornado blows through
town and nothing makes sense anymore. There’s this whole new style. You don’t
particularly like it. Hell, you barely understand it! You figure it’ll blow over, but it doesn’t.
People are buying into it. They’re starting to ask for it at your appearances. It’s cutting
into your record sales. What are you going to do?
You listen to it. It almost sounds like a joke. It’s simple, maybe even primitive. How
hard can it be to do? You’re starting to get pressure from your record label, your A&R
man. Maybe it’s worth trying just for the hell of it. What’s the worst that can happen?
Maybe you’ll embarrass yourself. But what if it’s
not
so bad? You’re a professional after
all. You’ll sell a few records, make a few bucks. You’re a little older than most of the kids
who are doing this stuff, but so what? If you have a receding hairline nobody’s gonna see
it over the radio.
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