Hi all,
I should mention that all of the Artists mentioned above are still in the catalogs and are still selling. If they weren't they would disappear pretty quickly. Each Artist today will of course have their own style as no Artist today can re-capture the sound from the past. With computerized sound tracks, all sounding like everything else there is no distinctive sound on current product to speak of. And a lot of it is pretty bad. That discussion has been going on now for several years. If it is good it will probably sell for a long time. If it is bad who is going to buy it? Practically all of the great Pop Releases as well as Country Releases from the 50's are still in the catalogs and selling. And some of the Music being released today will be selling 50 years from now. I don't thing anyone is trying to go back to the 50's, just hear some of that Classic Country on the Radio on a regular basis. Good music will always be good music, krap will always be krap, no matter what genre it is in. There has been stuff released and played on Major Labels that not only should have never made it into the recording studio, let alone out on to the radio. Back in the 50's 85 percent of the music was good, today 15 percent of it is passable, the rest usless.

Ray E. Strode