Re: Americana guesswork

[cwilson]

     I'm counting on everyone to stop wishing alt-country will "blow open," 
     since the continual frustration of that hope seems to me to be causing 
     some of the genre's stalwarts to falter a bit. There'll be events like 
     Lucinda's much-hyped (but not so much bought) 1998, but I think the 
     key is the demographic point someone previously made - it is in fact a 
     glass ceiling that's set at about knee level.
     
     Though this is a drag for working musicians, for fans it's not really 
     so bad - the constant obsession with judging musical success by huge 
     sales numbers seems parallel to me with the tendency to judge politics 
     by polls, movies by box office, and justice by corporate dividends.
     
     Here's my 1999 slogan for alt-country/Americana - The Back To "No 
     Future" Music - "The Past is Now."
     
     carl w.