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The vagarities of fame
Jul. 25th, 2007 10:40 pmI brought back a few old cassette tapes from my folks' house, as part of a long-term project to reduce my "stuff" footprint there gradually. One of them was an album that I hadn't listened to in about 10 years or so, "Hard Times on Easy Street" by a country artist named David Lynn Jones. I'd forgotten exactly how good some of the songs on this album were, and wondered what happened to him. With Google, that's relatively easy to look up in a few keystrokes.
Well, turns out he won the CMA New Male Vocalist of the Year award in 1988 for the same album I have. He recorded three more albums, the last one in 1994. And that's pretty much all you can find on him. CMT's bio says he continued writing music for a Nashville company until 1998. Then, *poof*.
OK, I'm sure we can all identify groups or individuals who had a great first offering, then basically ran out of ideas over the next couple of albums (or books). Maybe that's what happened to DLJ, I hope to get his other albums at some point to see. My guess would be that he went into producing after the offers to record stopped coming. But who knows? It could just be that his talent was as good as ever, but after he stopped being the new flavor on the block, the albums just stopped selling.
Yet, these folks' lives continue, even after the public eye has left them, and their works continue to be discovered or rediscovered long after they've left the stage for good. I'd sure like to know what became of DLJ.
Well, turns out he won the CMA New Male Vocalist of the Year award in 1988 for the same album I have. He recorded three more albums, the last one in 1994. And that's pretty much all you can find on him. CMT's bio says he continued writing music for a Nashville company until 1998. Then, *poof*.
OK, I'm sure we can all identify groups or individuals who had a great first offering, then basically ran out of ideas over the next couple of albums (or books). Maybe that's what happened to DLJ, I hope to get his other albums at some point to see. My guess would be that he went into producing after the offers to record stopped coming. But who knows? It could just be that his talent was as good as ever, but after he stopped being the new flavor on the block, the albums just stopped selling.
Yet, these folks' lives continue, even after the public eye has left them, and their works continue to be discovered or rediscovered long after they've left the stage for good. I'd sure like to know what became of DLJ.
