Writers often complain to us that they hear poor quality songs on Country radio or on album cuts on Country albums. Do you agree that there are some bad songs that get cut, and if so, how come?
I do agree that there are some bad songs that get cut, and I don’t think I’m alone in that assessment. I think a lot of other music professionals in Nashville would share that opinion. I think it happens for a few reasons. I think greed is one reason. There are many, many songs that have a much greater advantage of being cut just because it could be written by the artist himself who has some clout and wants the song on the record. Many producers in town are songwriters as well. Many producers in town have their own publishing companies, so they can dip into their own catalogs and have a payoff that way as a publisher as well. The record labels all have publishing arms. So we’re all up against that. Additionally, it’s pretty much done by committee as well. We had a song that a band wanted to cut, and the band leader said it was going to be a tough process because 13 people had to agree on the song. It really pretty much only takes one person to say no. It took 13 people in this case to
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