At 21, we all know best. |
Everybody was stressed out beyond belief except Carrie. |
For Waylon, it was always about the music. The only spotlight he ever cared about was the one on him while he was onstage. It wasn't about the awards or events. He was an original and a pioneer in terms of creating his own sound. This is a great loss for the music world. |
I don't get the sense that Wal-Mart is trying to enter the label business. |
I got a phone call from Alan's manager, saying he was going to do a recording of gospel songs for his mom. He was just going to make a CD copy for her. I said I'd love to hear it. |
I still think the year is going to end up down for us, as it will for the overall industry. There are no late releases that are going to save us for the year. We'll just do better than the rest of the world. |
It brought us to a city that doesn't normally put us on the map. When you look at the media going into the show, it was double in terms of coverage on the networks and in print. On all levels, we got more bang for the buck. |
It certainly was evident the night she won. |
It kind of hits you right between the eyes. It's really emotional and just classic Alan Jackson. The thing that struck me the most about it was I felt like I was sitting in church with him. When you listen to the songs, there's so much inspiration in them. |
It's a dual approach, |
It's a split effort between the two of us. |
Labels do a lot of things besides manufacture and sell records. We market musicians, we get radio stations to play songs, we help produce tracks and guide musical careers. Wal-Mart doesn't have an expertise in those things. |
My experience is that country gets upset when you take a record to top 40 or AC before you take it to them or if you're working a record simultaneously, ... but we're not. We're working two separate records. |
People seem to have a hunger for those things that not only reinforce their faith but give them hope. Certainly, this record has that feeling to it. |
There is nothing here that forces us to get a record out right away. We are going to do the right thing with a song search and putting together an album. That gives us time. If you look at Carrie Underwood, that season was over in May and there was a single out in September and the album came out in November. We have a chance for this person to hit the various markets. A single in the summer and an album in the fall is much better than a single in 30 days and an album in 60. |