1) really good music of ANY kind comes slowly...much folk music is that good part which survived.

2) the music industry needs VOLUME...thay want to sell new songs & CDs every day.

3) some music wannabes find that singing & playing for a living sounds like more fun than sitting in an office.

4) in order to get a bigger share of profits, both singers AND the promoters need stuff which THEY own.....

do you see a pattern here? The entire system is geared toward volume and 'new',...and if it is not all good, why then they will sell 'bad'....and they have ways of making you think it is 'good' for a few weeks.....Songs and sounds are stolen, artists are just a commodity..."loud" is substituted for "quality"...and so it goes....

When there IS something innovative and well done on the scene it is often lost in the shuffle because it is not promoted well. And those of us who would rather wallow in our little backwater retreats where we try to retain 'quality' are looked down on and ignored by the larger venues...and I for one am just as happy with that.....