From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2019020500274061637-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
      
      
   > I had a friend once who was a good singer and player.  His and my band   
   > worked together in Detroit clubs for years.  He wrote songs and tried to   
   > break in to the Nashville game. Kept getting rejected.  He was the son of   
   > a minister, and eventually wrote some religious things.  Those took off,   
   > got on the radio, on the charts.   
      
   They must have been better written songs.   
      
   > I remember him sitting telling me that Satan was after him.  Said that now   
   > that he has some nice original music getting attention, the record people   
   > in Nashville are calling him.   
      
   Good Music will get attention, particularly nowadays, because so very few   
   are writing it.   
      
   > Problem is ... he'd pretty much bottomed out in life, had a religious   
   > conversion and was no longer interested in playing mainstream country   
   > music or working in bars.   
      
   Who wants to work bars? But getting somewhere with brand new Fresh Music is   
   always  interesting!   
      
   > He was going to take his wife, move back to the midwest, and start over.   
   > Talking like that might make some people cringe, but that's the deal. He   
   > viewed the Nashville interest as the devil trying to temp him back into a   
   > destructive lifestyle.   
      
   A destructive lifestyle can happen anywhere, as can the Stupid decision to   
   partake of it. Blaming it on Music, or anything else,other than a poor   
   choice is just copping out.   
      
   > He left Detroit, became a minister himself and last I heard was doing   
   > quite well.  That beats dead from some drugs or alcohol.   
      
   Sounds like he was called to serve the Lord as a minister.   
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   > thinking of this because ..... just last week I was considering writing   
   > some music ... we were working steady, things stabilizing out ... now, out   
   > of nowhere this volume thing is back with a vengence ... distracting me,   
   > taking all my time up ... like " someone " doesn't want me writing songs.   
      
   JimD   
      
   To Hell with what someone doesn't want! You can write songs anyway!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)