Your comments are always of interest, Big Al - nothing silly about them! But I would put a different spin on the last one.

I think "going nowhere" is overly pessimistic. After all, this music been Going Nowhere for centuries, and still it survives. How many pop songs can say the same? That genre thrives commercially, but its individual flowers bloom and wither in a very short time, and are then gone forever. For "going nowhere" I would substitute:

… at its deepest level thrives underground, nourished from some hidden wellspring that never breaks the surface, but also never runs dry.

The artist being true to him/herself is an archetype that will never die. It's not about money - which is both why our music fails or struggles in the marketplace, and why it endures.


[Michael, what did you put in my morning coffee…?]