I was thinking about "O

February 28, 2002

I was thinking about "O Brother Where Art Thou". Its too bad that one bluegrass record gets so overexposed, fat & huge on the back of a great movie. What happens now? Its like swing music only its in a worse situation. Bluegrass is an even older and more important part of American history and now it will be relegated to the dustbin of trendiness in a few more weeks. Have people rushed out to buy other bluegrass records? I pray this massive media feeding frenzy happens to me so that I don't have to worry about money.

BUT...but...but...by the time people have had enough of my record and all the Craig Northeyisms popping up in the media it will be too late for all the people who have influenced me. I will have destroyed their careers. Everyone will be so sick of me that my mentors and heros will be caught in the backlash. Buyers will condemn them for spawning such horribly insipid dreck and will shut them out at the sales counter. The people I most respected will become social outcasts. I will be forced to take them out on package tours in a revue style. The revue will play shooter bars and malls in all suburban outlands. The audience will be mostly composed of sociologists, masochists, hecklers and people who just came in because it was too cold outside. This is why I remain in obscurity. For my peeps.