Yes I went through life trying to get gigs etc.

i will pass on a lifetime's wisdom to you.

If your face doesn't fit, forget it.

The music industry laughs at the acoustic scene behind its back. The big fish in the folk pool are tiny minnows in the general way of things.

the music industry has many highways and byways where you can work at your art and still earn a living.

As an incredible string band song said, if you let the pigs decide it, they will put you in the sty.
and my advice is, don't let them.

turn your face away, leave them to it - breathe the fresh of indifference to this tiny screwed up little encampment on the VERY edge of civilisation.

Equanimity, peace, love and herb tea, etc.

Big Al Whittle