It spoiled him once already. He was up there in the mid-eighties with Guitar Town and Copperhead Road and like that, then he took a considerable vacation at state expense due to recreational pharmaceuticals, and got clean (not his language, that stayed the same) and started over.

I think the best thing he's done was his first album after he started over, Train A'Comin, but maybe I'm prejudiced because it's the most purely acoustic and it has Norman on it. There's also some great stuff on The Mountain, the bluegrass album he did with Del and them.

But to make it on today's Country radio, he'd have to take a good many years of Bland Pills.

Peter.