Very interesting, Glenn! During the time he was signed to Epic's Nashville office I wonder if they tried to market his output to country radio, or target, in any way, that market. He never mentioned the word "country" in trying to describe his sound, but regardless, I wonder if he worked with Epic, at all, about how to market his music whatever anybody might have genre-called-it at the time!
My thought is that, had it been promoted and marketed a little more shrewdly (especially thru a Nashville-based major), he might have seen some success in that lane...if he wasn't dead-set against that, or something. You can't tell a label exec you do "Americana" and "blues" and expect them to know how to market that! Do all the Americana and blues you want, but embrace their desire and ability to market into the country lane. Just my dos centavos decades too late!
Very interesting, Glenn! During the time he was signed to Epic's Nashville office I wonder if they tried to market his output to country radio, or target, in any way, that market. He never mentioned the word "country" in trying to describe his sound, but regardless, I wonder if he worked with Epic, at all, about how to market his music whatever anybody might have genre-called-it at the time!
My thought is that, had it been promoted and marketed a little more shrewdly (especially thru a Nashville-based major), he might have seen some success in that lane...if he wasn't dead-set against that, or something. You can't tell a label exec you do "Americana" and "blues" and expect them to know how to market that! Do all the Americana and blues you want, but embrace their desire and ability to market into the country lane. Just my dos centavos decades too late!
Great job, as usual!