Originally Posted by Marc Barnette
The doom and gloom is always from the person's perspective who is telling it.

Corporations came in and "ruined everything."


88....yep, that's about the time it really began to change...NSAI moved from Cavendar's house to that big brick building right by Reba's Starstruck Entertainment or whatever it was.

Blame it all on Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, and Mickey Gilley. If Rogers hadn't recorded Lucille and The Gambler, if Travis hadn't changed everything with Storms Of Life, and if Gilley's had never opened his club which inspired Urban Cowboy, them corporate people wouldn't have come to steal our country gold.



Originally Posted by Marc Barnette
there were tons of people who used to have deals that were complaining that the town had changed since "their day" and it was all gone.


A few years ago I went to Guitar Center in Nashville. I recognized the name on the tag of the guy who waited on me. He had written three top ten hits as well as had other songs recorded by Dolly, Strait, Skaggs, Don Williams, and others back when they were hot. It sort of shocked me to see him there but he's happy enough.