I suppose we will never know the whole story, but it occurs to me that Slim might have fallen prey to the demands of the recording industry. Many other artists of the early part of his era were more or less forced to record what the industry thought would sell rather than the kind of music the artist originally preferred. I'm wondering here if Slim might have slipped into obscurity had he only sung bush songs and wonder whether the country music style was really his idea. Of course, whichever it may have been, it certainly paid off for him to get into country music.