>>The "industry" side of music is dismal.
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>As it, actually, always was.


In another stream of thought..........

The music business (notice I didn't say industry) has given the world Ray Charles and Bill Withers and Jimi Hendrix.

Even today we have Justin Timberlake.

I know nobody gives him a chance because he came from N'Sync.

But the guy rocks. He can play a bunch of instruments.

I read in an interview he suggested the concept for the last Johnny Cash video to producer Rick Ruben.

I think he'll be one of those out of tens of thousands the business puts out in a decade, and has the power to be remembered for a century.