Everett,

I will go back to what someone said in 1998 to a pretty high level panel discussion in Nashville. "In the future, songwriters are going to have to get used to doing without royalties, because they are not going to be there."

That is now happening with lisences. They are pretty much gone because no one does high run CD's anymore. They order 100 at a time, and get them fairly quickly if they need more. But most CD's are now givaways, to advertise for gigs. And one of the reasons they are less likely to record outside material. When it is going to cost you money with little or no chance or any return, you are going to record your own.

That is what you have been seeing in different ways. The singer who no longer wants to record your songs, the problems with lisencing,etc. The outside song is a thing of the past. Gonna have to change the dynamic of how you approach it. Cause in the eyes of most artists, that has already changed.

MAB