...but if they had minor country music hits, they can keep on playing the county fair circuit long as they can stand it.

A little name recognition can keep you going for life if you take it to the people that remember it.

At the same time, it's not a straight dive from playing arenas to coffeehouses again the next year. After you live the fast lane for awhile and then crash and burn out of it, you usually are right out of it for awhile. When you pull yourself together, you decide what you're comfortable with, and can re-enter at that small-venue level. Those artists that used to play to thousands but are now willing to play for fifty people who care, are a great joy to work with.

W-O