![]() Towns with churches and liquor stores and faces long memorized. Someplace where it takes imagination to see yourself as something other than the models that present. But I can guess it's not too different from how it is here, from how it is in a lot of the South and a lot of places in the Midwest and Northeast and West Coast - anywhere America in the shadow of a cosmopolitan cultural center. I don't know anything about North Alabama in general or Lauderdale County in particular. About the logistics involved in getting from here to where you have to be. Maybe it's presumptuous to wonder, but you don't really think so much about that, do you? You think about your family and what you shouldn't be embarrassed to call your art. So you count yourself as lucky that they're willing to call out song titles, that they are able to make a party from your repertoire. ![]() Sure, if you try over and over and get nothing back, if nobody listens and nobody pays you, maybe you get discouraged and give up eventually (but some never do). What matters more than whether they hoot or dance or throw bouquets on the bandstand is the act of expression, the effort expended in attempting connection. Whether they respond or not has nothing to do with the process. You walk out night after night and worry about the worn places on your guitar's neck and find the words you can't say any other way standing up before a crowd of strangers who also can't be anywhere else right now. Still, you do what you have to do, you start your own label, you sell your own merchandise, you make records to give yourself a reason to tour. Hall, "there ain't no money in it."Īnyway, you want to talk about being born at the wrong time, the music business isn't what it was and, for most would-be artists, it never was all that great anyway. Like maybe it's not always the healthiest thing. But we do know that some people get fascinated by it the same way they might get fascinated by alcohol or methamphetamine or pornography on the Internet. ![]() We don't know what makes it possible for some people to live for weeks inside a D chord, to make that tight little triangle on the fretboard and ring it out again and again, adding and subtracting notes by pulling fingertips away and hammering them back down.
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