Rand,
thanks for sharing the insight that only the voice of experience can offer...it is a very unselfish thing to share one's professional viewpoints with aspiring writers...i myself am very appreciative to both you and Marc for your recent posts and hope they continue, for those of us who haven't achieved commercial success YET they are like mapquest...

Marc,
my eyes lit up when you started speaking about Jimbeau...he is like the most awesome dude ever...Brenda too...my wife and i were fortunate enough to spend some time with them both at a couple of conferences...I owe him something next time i see him because for about the last 5 or 6 years i have been doing a kinda rocked up version of "Hillbilly Highway" wherever i play out live...if that song isn't pure 2 chord genius...wow...he and Jeffrey Steele did an unplugged version of it together and i've been hooked on it ever since...next time ya see him please tell him i said HI...
anyway, appreciate all you're adding around here lately...write great, be well...moker jarrett