There is hope. It might be a small segment, but there are still young people out there who understand real music and like it when quality musicians play that music. I was at a birthday party about a month ago for a young guy, twenty-something. Everybody there mostly was 20's and 30's. I had my guitar there upon the request of the guy whose birthday it was. A few hours into the party we started doing Sinatra, Martin, Bobby Darin, Nat King Cole, louis Prima, in addition to a little classic rock stuf. I was totaly amazed how many of the people there knew that music, could sing along with parts of it, requested certain songs. Another guy got out a trumpet, and though he wasn't great, he sort of knew the tunes and didn't suck.

Live music still rules here in Nashville. i'm playing a wedding in September as part of an 8-piece western swing band. And we're actually being paid well to boot. Maybe that's why I moved here; an escape to one of the last outposts where live music still reigns and the DJ is the small minority.