Polly,

I remember that song very well. And if you remember what I said was that I understood how you liked it and that Glynda had done a very good job on the song. I congratulated her for writing it and was glad that you liked it and for hiring my friend and client Heather Cowles for the demo.That was just fine.

My problem with it and with most songs are that they are written in a vacum. And I can show you how. You should take that song and get out on every single writer's night in the Cincinatti area. You should play it continually. Then see the reaction when it is out among dozens over very similar songs, all saying virtually the same thing.

Then take it to a place, the river, lakes, loud bars, where people are drinking, chasing the opposite sex,talking and partying. Then see what happens.

Where are 90% of our songs being played if they get on the radio or out in the public? In bars, lakes and rivers, seashores, where people are drinking talking and chasing members of the opposite sex.

Then you bring that song to a typical Nashville writer's night where there are 30 writers doing 3 songs each, 90 songs a night, with 70 of them being very similar.

Then pitching the song to Heather Cowles who has 30 songs of her own that are virtually the same song and she has been slammed so many times for those she knows she has to write and sing up tempo and get away from that kind of song.

To publishers who deal with that kind of song every day and already have so many they can't get cut.

Record companies who deal with thousands.

That is what I am talking about. Most songs are just fine if they stand on their own. But they never are just on their own. they are in the middle of millions of songs. So if you can get that one to be loved by millions of people, it achieves what you want.We are all politicians here.If we have songs we believe in, we can get them out there,promote them and build them with every fiber of our being. But we can't force the rest of the world to like us.

Like everything it is all about perspective.

MAB