Hi Phil and Welcome:

Good to have you here with us. I can certainly appreciate your perspective having grown up in the era where melody was the most important part of our musical lives. Mike Dunbar certainly has a perspective of what goes on in Nashville these days and he's correct about the demise of melody in most of today's music. I suppose that's part of my problem. Being not too far behind you agewise, I'm still really into things melodical.

Regardless, I don't believe that melody is gone for good. All things seem to run in fairly large cycles in music and it will eventually be "re-discovered" and embraced.

I hope you'll hang around and enjoy all the discussion (mild or hot) that goes on here... LOL! Merry Christmas.