Something I realized a few years ago is this: There is a great deal of jealousy in the music business. A great deal of back stabbing, a great deal of under-cutting. Time for people to grow up. Just because someone else is good doesn't mean that you are bad.

David is one hell of a fiddle/violin player. Cara does beautiful music. If they do a 'song' I don't care for amongst a bunch I think are great/inspiring/sentimental and tear-provoking, I would have to be a real arse to comment on the song I didn't like as though it was representative of their work.

I get particularly disgusted with people who take shots from a bush--that is, under the guise of anonymity (sp?). But something else I realized too: Cara has many good CDs out, and as long as they continue to play and produce music, I will be a happy camper listening to their stuff, and pfffffttt to those who have nasty shit to say about them.

One of my all-time favourite songs was done by Lacy J Dalton, and it says it all.


Dalton Lacy J. And Sousa Beans

"16th Avenue"

From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms
With years and years of livin', tucked up underneath their arms,
They walked away from everything just to see a dream come true,
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue.

With a million dollar spirit and an old flat top guitar,
They drive to town with all they own in a hundred dollar car,
'Cause one time someone told them about a friend of a friend they knew,
Who owns you know a studio on 16th Avenue.

Now some are born to money they never had to say survive,
And others swing a nine pound hammer just to stay alive,
There's cowboys, drunks and Christians mostly white and black and blue,
They've all dialed the phone direct to home from 16th Avenue.

Ah but then one night in some empty room where no curtains ever hung,
Like a miracle some golden words roll off of someone's tongue,
And after years of being nothing they're all lookin' right at you,
And they for awhile they'll go in style on 16th Avenue.

Hey it looks so uneventful, so quiet and discreet,
But a lot of lives were changed there on that little one-way street,
'Cause they walked away from everything just to see a dream come true,
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue.