Let’s be somewhat pragmatic, the young record executives are looking for artists that appeal to a different age group and demographic. Regretfully, as talented, as experienced, as poised, and as artistically (and musically) overbearing as he may be in comparison to the younger artists, it’s about the sale of “units”.
Is a label going to invest in an artist, and these young record executives have a very definitive opinion relative to their decisions, who is considered “old”, and who hasn’t had a Top Ten Hit in a very long time?
Time passes slowly, but time can take its toll on artists that the recording industry has no further interest in.
It all centers about sales, and it’s about the audience, albeit, the Nickelodeum audience.
It is rather unfortunate that Folk Music (particularly in the era of the Lightfoot tradition)is no longer understood, taken seriously, grasped, or accepted by the masses, yet alone the media.
To deprive a musician of Lightfoot’s caliber of an opportunity to continue to create and paint on the canvases that only we, at this point, can see, is an injustice to us, and to all who come after us.
Lightfoot can, and will, continue to write poetry, intertwined with music, or music interweaved with poetry, that only a very few musicians can even contemplate of achieving, even at this point in time.
He should do what Tom Rush, and very few have done, create his own label, shun those who thing they know, and, in turn, prove the "executives" wrong.
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