Ray, I really have no idea what you are talking about. Pretty much every one has been on tour throughout the summer and fall. They record during the holidays and also will have Christmas albums coming out. They do some recording through the year and everyon is now gearing up for next year. In addition there are hundreds of artists that will be at the country radio seminar in January. I don't have their schedules but a quick drive up and down music row and over in Berry hill you will find dozens of studios like OCEAN WAY, THE PARLOR, pretty full. Blackbird, and other studios are also full.

As far as artists, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney. Brad Paisley, Fla. Ga. Line, Luke Bryan, Zac Brown Band,Little Big Town, Jason Aldeen, Dierk's Bently, Maren Morris, Carrie Underwood, Kacee Musgraves, Luke Combs, will all have new product coming out. Garth and Taylor Swift have just released. There are plenty more than you and I don't even know yet, but the release season will come after the first of the year. Those will come out from Feb. into March and tours and fair season will begin after that. Pretty much every label has activity going on in town, but eveyr thing in this town winds down to the public in Novemenber. It's the final quarter. The CMA's will be on tonight and you could watch that and get an idea of what is going on.

In town, the award season brings the ASCAP, BMI and SESAC awards. That signifiies the end of the year and everything starts gearing up for next year. That;s why the Frank Brown songwriters festival is held starting tomorrow every year. About 185 NAshville writers are going down for that.

You always have this extrodinarily misinformed idea that everyone does the same thing at the same time and that is just not the way any of this works. People are in and out of the studio all the time, year round. They are touring when they are not recording. As far as what is "going anywhere" that is a pretty stupid question and you can do a google search to find what the charts are doing. Unless you don't believe those either. You see, you always have an extrodinarily strange idea of how the music industry works and doesn't work. It's like you get information ten or fifteenth hand and just sort of make up what you don't actually know.
The artists and their management don't release information on where they are recording or any of the schedules. They don't want studios besieged by fans or people trying to insert themselves into places they don't belong.

I don't know either. I am not in the middle of it by design. But I know people who are involved with many of the groups and artists I named. Many musicians. Many business people. I think you tend to live in a very small part of the world and I don't know what radio you listen to. So I don'[t know what it is that you hear or don't hear. But since mainstream radio plays only a very small list of any genre about 18 songs at any one time, there is probably not as much on that but it doesn't mean that there aren't people "going somewhere."

But I guess in "RAYWORLD" nothing is going on and that is fine. You can keep believing in whatever you want to believe in. Not quite informed, but you can believe in it.
MAB