MichaelAnthony, I wiull never forget Noel Coward's advice on writing plays, which went "Write what pleases you, and if it doesn't please other people, get out of the business and do something else."
I like both parts of that statement. Write (or sing) what you know and what you are familiar with. When visiting friends in Fl I am struck by the Florida-nature of the singer-songwriter's work, the songs are so steeped in local color that you cannot imagine them being written about any place else on earth. (JU Lee, hope you or Kristi is reading this! example of a GREAT songwriter)
Then you have to decide is this the way I am called on to make a living? If yes, then you're stuck. If not, youmight find yourself on the same path I have taken: make a living through something other than music, and keep it as mainly a hobby, getting together with friends to make music, and lots of free gigs (nursing homes, etc) and the occasional paying gig (contra dances, historical societies) while making a living through conventional means. I am convinced that I have the best of both worlds, and keep having this fear that if I tried to do it for a living & came to depend on it for my income that it would stop being fun.
but every so often I stop and ask if I am the fox looking up at the grapes and deciding they are probably sour.