I've Rarely Seen Video Screens

What's Been Missing From Digital Music Sales Has Been The Possibility Of Added Depth. In A Printed Package One Can Only Include So Many Images And So Much Text - For Example - But Digitally It's Wide Open.

Personally, Being Somewhat Envious Of Richard's (thompson) Songwriting And Guitar Playing, It's Somewhat Satisfying He's Not Yet Achieved Household-name Status. It Serves Him Right For Being So Good.

The Most Common Music That You Hear Anywhere In The World Now Basically Has Its Roots In That Union That Happened In The Last Century, Or In The Century Before That. That Kind Of Music That's Groove Or Beat Oriented Just Didn't Exist In Lots Of Cultures Before That.

There's Still A Feeling That Uncensored Emotions Make A Good Song. They Don't. Pure Emotion Is Just Somebody Screaming At You, Or Crying. It Doesn't Communicate Anything.

Probably The Reason It's A Little Hard To Break Away From The Album Format Completely Is, If You're Getting A Band Together In The Studio, It Makes Financial Sense To Do More Than One Song At A Time. And It Makes More Sense, If You're Going To All The Effort Of Performing And Doing Whatever Else, If There's A Kind Of Bundle.