[Dixielandjazz] Can you find a new audience?

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Yessiree bob you can if you keep looking for one :))



Not only that folks but there ain't been no Country Music in Nashville 
for almost twenty years,  it all moved to Bransom, Mo. and even Bransom 
could not make it on Country music alone.   They just turned out the 
lights in Nashville when Ernest Tubb and Johnny Cash & Tammy Wynette 
died.   Willie Nelson is from Texas, and Merl Haggard and Buck Owens 
were from Bakersfield, Calif.  Roy Clark was a city boy from the north 
east as I recall,

All the latest Rock Country singers have come from Canada and Oklahoma, 
and the majority of all the former Country Music stars were not form 
Nashville either, Don't believe me, take a trip to Nashville and look 
for Country music outside the Grand Ole Opry Tourist attraction.

It simply does not exist and never really has.  Yet the PR campaign has 
kept it the illusive MECCA for every aspiring wannabe country 
songwriter in the world.   Most of them end up heartbroken and broke in 
that city thumbing a ride back home with nothing more than a canned 
studio demo or Cd with that alleged "NASHVILLE SOUND" of well worn out 
stock arrangements.

IN any genre you have to keep moving and follow and cultivate a new 
audience or you too will simply fade away into obscurity, resting on 
your laurels is not a viable option for sustaining a career in the 
entertainment business.  You will always be only as good as your Last 
performance.   It does however appear to make you better if you keep 
playing it in front of a new audience that feeds you back life and 
energy as they discover you and your music for the first time or come 
back after not having seen you for a long time.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins




-----Original Message-----
From: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 6:39 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Can you find a new audience?

    Snipped from the NY TIMES. It seems, after reinventing themselves, 
they have
found a new audience for their music. We should be so fortunate. Go 
girls!

Cheers,
Steve (necessity is the mother of invention) Barbone

Defiant Dixie Chicks Are Big Winners at the Grammys

N Y TIMES By JEFF LEEDS and LORNE MANLY - February 12, 2007

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 ‹ After death threats, boycotts and a cold shoulder
from the country music establishment, the Dixie Chicks gained sweet
vindication Sunday night at the 49th annual Grammy Awards, capturing 
honors
in all five of the categories in which they were nominated.

They were the top winners during a night when the Recording Academy 
spread
the wealth . . .  The Dixie Chicks took home Grammys for the top three
awards: record, song and album of the year. Their ³Taking the Long Way²
(Open Wide/Columbia) won best country album and ³Not Ready to Make Nice²
also captured best country performance by a duo or group with vocal. . .

The Dixie Chicks¹ sweep of the major Grammy categories served as a sharp
counterpoint to their shut-out at the Country Music Association awards 
in
November. The Recording Academy consists of members across the nation 
who
work in all genres of music. The Country Music Association¹s membership 
is
concentrated among artists, engineers and executives tied to the 
Nashville
establishment.


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