Berry BYGOD You Better Believe Byassee's blog: "My Auction"

It is a true shame that there are such rigid GENRE definitions in popular music today! You've got POP, ROCK, COUNTRY, R&B, AAA and HIP HOP. This may be fine for most musicians, but there is a very unfair gap in music the way it is. ROCK music is split into two formats MODERN ROCK and ACTIVE ROCK, both of which do not accept SOUTHERN or COUNTRY-LEANING music at all. Then there's COUNTRY. COUNTRY is a market controlled by NASHVILLE'S inner-workings. Video outlets such as CMT and GAC have created 'back of the bus' programming like "Wide Open Country" and "Edge of Country" to relieve the pressure created by the growing movement of outsiders in the field, but it's not a fair representation of the broad scope of these underdogs. Radio stations have created late-night and weekend specialty programming to play these artists as well, but again, this is just placating these tremendous artists. These artists are multiplying in number year by year and this brings us to our cause:

WE WANT OUR OWN GENRE! WE WANT OUR XXX! SIGN THE PETITION TODAY! MAKE THE CHANGE!

visit www.GIVEMEMYXXX.com to make a change!



trying to help my friend Shooter Jennings make a positive change in this increasingly tough music biz .

i hope you will check this out & maybe lend a hand .

also i've posted some cool shows on Shooter's new site www.ShooterJennings.com

so stop by & join , feel free to send me a friend request .

ROCK ON ... Berry