No, I haven't seen the documentary but I've been writing songs for over 30 years now and hooked up with a childhood friend who writes at such a hih level that her lyrics blow me away. I put a dozen or so of her first songs to music and, well, they are darned good. She saves up and goes to Nashville two ot three times a year and has done all the right stuff and talked to all the right people and so is sooooo so good but to date... not one song sold. Hmmmmm? This thing is like a lottery.

It's just like musicans. There is so much talent out there that it does come down to breaks, luck and forces beyond ones control.

Point in fact: Anyone ever hear of Austin Cunningham? Didn't think so. He wrote Martina McBride's "From the Ashes" and does the song ten times better than she... but like who knows his name? Nobody. Point is that he's at least as good as Martina but no one will ever hear him. Except me and a few of my friends since he played my house one night....

Bobert