Polly,

I really don't know what else to say about this. You obviously have passion for the song, I say you do whatever you can to get it out there. If nothing else if you were to do a You Tube video, get out and sell some CD's, you are doing what you believe in and I am all for that.

My comments on the song are simply from a different perspective from yours. I have heard it. A lot, almost down to the exact same lines.I know that is hard for you to believe but it really is. As I have said I would love to have you come to Nashville and I could show it to you in about 15 minutes.

It is nothing against you, or Glynda. It happens all the time and until you get around this stuff all the time you just don't see it.

But this has nothing to do with me. It is what you feel in your heart and frankly bank account that is right.

Your question to me at the very beginning of this, about a year ago, was did I think it was commercially viable. I don't. And even if you were to get a lot of attention on the song I would still feel the same way.

So I will say the same thing to you my buddy Jeffery Steel said to one of the Members of the Cincinatti NSAI group up there. Jeff was doing a workshop and actually asked me for advice on this one girl. She had a song that she loved and played every time any of us went up there for workshops or shows. it hit all of us the same way, (Myself, Danny Wells, Jeff) we all said the same thing independently of each other. But she loved this song and just knew it was a HIT.

She was trying to play it again for a private meeting with Jeffery. He said "Look I just don't hear it in this song. I just don't. You love it, you sing it well,great. But you have played this song five times for me already and I have told you the same thing every time. Playing it for me a sixth time is not going to change my mind."

That is the industry. You are going to have to go with your gut and your desires. I always will help you anytime you ask me and will always tell you the truth as best I can.

But you are not going to get me to care that much for this particular song. I just don't see it the way you do.

On a note of my own, I recieved three separate e-mails yesterday from other people doing my own songs. Two were from the assistant of a woman singer who had just recorded two songs of mine that I had written 6 years ago. They are okay, but quite frankly not some of my better songs. She sounded great but I didn't know who she was or where she got them. It turns out that a very good friend of mine is the producer and did a great job on them, but I still didn't know the singer so the assistant directed me to her web site. She's very attractive, very...uh..uh, shall we say "BUSTY?" and also about 55 years old.

So that is fine, I am very happy she did the songs, but she has about the same shot at a record deal as I do getting a gig as a male stripper. not very damn likely!

But she has a great sounding CD and does my songs well.

The other was a new video done by a singer I work with. Again, the song sounds great, the video is VERY cool and on You Tube getting hits. He is about 10,000 hits with it's first weekend. Very cool and I am glad. But the reality is that the video looks like about ten thousand other "Let's get our friends in the back yard and drink beer while some hot chicks with cowboy boots and Daisy Mae short shorts parade around."

Hey, great but not exactly the most original. But a cut's a cut.

The point I am trying to make is that you write them up and get them out there. You hope people catch on to them and they end up in places you never thought of. I hope they both do great.I am very pleased with them, frankly wish they had both done some different songs, but they put their money where their mouths are and did fine. Everyone has to go with their gut.

That is what you have to do Polly. I am always on your side.

MAB