Once in awhile a really great song comes along in almost every genre. Country fans grew up with a certain feel, format, expectation even, and as we got older, things changed and evolved.

Like technology and almost everything else, the evolution in Country and it's various pop crossover versions has accelerated over the last few years. It has come to a place where the music that country fans would love to listen to is almost unrecognizable to them because of the feel and format they have learned to love and expect.

I feel that this is due to the demographics that the lables and for that matter the radio stations are catering to. The older I get the less music I buy. The less radio music I listen to.

Being a songwriter myself, it's second nature for me to evalutate the merits of any song I hear, especially if it is a top seller, (since none of mine are). Most people who fall into the targeted demographic are not songwriters, and hear what the stations play. The stations play what the lables send them to play (with the exception of a few stations that play independent artists.

Most people who are in the buying demogrphic buy what is on the shelves and what they hear all day long on the radio or TV. What else can they be expected to do?

Ever meet anyone that doesn't know who Alison Krauss is? That would be someone who is missing out on a great deal of musical enjoyment, simply because she is not played much on the radio, even most so called Country stations.

My opinion is that the industry has decided what they want to sell or what they can sell, and after all, why else are they there?

Does it have to be a great song to be a hit? I guess that depends on who is defining great, and who is believing them.

Rob


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