Marc!,
It isn't the latest stuff we are "Evaluating" We are not comparing the latest offerings to what was released from yesterday. A couple of songs I have seen and heard on CMT is DRINKING CLASS and AIN"T WORTH THE WHISKEY. Now you will have to agree those songs take a lot of Talent and Imagination to write! And much of those sound tracks. Some of it sounds like it came out of the Movie, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Or at least the Cat!

Some of that they call music. Well they do like to take liberties now, don't they.

There is that old saying, BUILD A BETTER MOUSE TRAP AND THE WORLD WILL BEAT A PATH TO YOUR DOOR. I think Hank Snow had to play a lot of stuff Acoustic because there wasn't electricity available yet where he toured.

Now Marc don't get mad but I will take any three country artists from yesterday and beat any three you can name from today 3 to 0. Some of the most fantastic classical recordings from the past were recorded before digital was available. They were still using tube equipment and tape! I know I have some of them!

Sorry but I do hear the stuff that is being put out today. Most of it should have never made it into the studio, let alone out to the public. You call some of that music? OK.

Ray E. Strode