Don Mason will satisfy the most people in the USA the most times. Why? Because he does tons of country which is the most popular music in the USA.

In 1958 when Fats Domino was as big as you could get and Ray charles was coming up and even Elvis and Buddy Holly, Ike and Tina and the list friends goes on and on, I argured with a guy that R&R and R&B was the most popular music. What a laugh!

I'll bet all the money I can afford that just like where I live now and even in New Orleans which is supposed to be a Dixie Jazz town and in your town USA also that there are 2 or 3 country music stations to every other type of music station locally on the radio. Wanna bet? There may be one, may be two possibly three cities that are an exception, but I doubt it.

Country music rules in the USA. It always has and probably always will. If you want to play a lot and be popular, do country. There's a guy in town who sings very good plays a little more guitar than I do, ( I don't play guitar at all). He uses midi files and is very popular. The farthest he gets away from country is the tune "From A Jack To A King".

I'm doing the music I enjoy the most. I won't make much money. I do maybe 30 country tunes. May be I should be doing more!

Country is king. It's a fact. Oh, I know Uncle Dave's crowd really likes what he does and Donny's crowd also likes what he does and that goes for Fran, Scott and others, but all of your crowds put together are in the minority. Country fans are the largest group in the USA. It ain't even close.
If you don't know the folks, start the night with two or three country tunes you're sure to please most of the people.

Even if they're under 30. My son and his friends are 24-28 years of age. They buy country CDs.

I just enjoy the standards more. Plenty of passing chords and a beautiful melody and or a swinging rhythm with plenty of improvisation. I know I'm not going to make a lot of money. I just wish I could play more. But I really know that won't happen either. Woe is me. I need to get out of this one horse town. That would help.

It's really nice expressing an opinion and not getting anyone mad isn't it? What a great bunch of guys here. I'm gonna visit DonM again one day and I'm only going to play on the country tunes. I'm gonna make him do them in E,A and D. It's gonna be very hard for me, but I'll get even on the last tune. I'll do "Body And Soul" in Db and I'm not going to let him use the Transpose button. Ha! Ha!

[This message has been edited by brickboo (edited 11-03-2003).]