But Bob, most of the stuff I heard coming out of professionals in Nashville was "emo country," way too full of itself and incapable of anything approaching a sense of humor. (Maybe when you don't allow any competition you can do that.) It's enough to make you want to Flatt your Scruggs, or something like that.

The only good thing I've heard in country music in recent months was by (of all people) Porter Wagoner--and I don't hear it getting a lot of airplay.

Joe