Al-David... thanks for listening and yeah, Nashville is a crazy town. You're a nobody until you get a hit, then you're suddenly in demand, and if you don't have another hit in a timely manner, you're back to nobody status pretty quick.
A guy I know, Curtis Wright, who played in another local band around here back in the day, played guitar well and had a great country singer voice, wrote a few big hits and scored a #1 on one or two of them. (Milsap's Woman in Love, Shenandoah's Next to you, next to me) He found that it was hard to get back in the door as a writer, that had been open just a year back, tried to get a solo career going, and finally grew tired of the bs and politics and came back home to NC and started driving a truck. Gold records on the wall and drives a truck for a living. I think he does some acoustic gigs at small coffee shop type venues now. At one time he was backing the biggest stars in N-town and also fronted one of the hottest bands on the radio (Shenandoah) for a time. I guess it's not all it's cracked up to be.

PGF..... thanks for the compliment. I don't know if I personally think this is my best song ever, but I always try to write "the next one" better than the last.... I'm glad you think so, and if you say so, .... who am I to disagree. ;-)

R & AM..... you folks are new here.... so first things first....welcome to the forum. Now, thanks for listening. I'll be looking forward to hearing your music as well.

Janice & Bud, ...thanks for jumping in and commenting. Ahhhh... what possibly could have been with this song..... alas, we shall never know. So, thank you for listening and your kind words on the song.

As far as hijacking the thread..... as long as someone posts or goes in a sidebar, kinda relative to the topic at hand, direction, I have no real problems with the discussion. I see it was moved to another thread out of respect..... thanks, for that, but it really wasn't necessary. Although, over there now, we can go in any direction.

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