A Field Of Possibility

Music has been with us for ever. But with the advent of modern technology and media and the political revolutions of the sixties something happened.

A massive musical Field Of Possibility emerged. Suddenly it was possible to reach huge audiences AND to be be in touch with and influenced by the rest of the world, it’s cultures and its music.

And of course creative kinds quickly started to wander, open mouthed into this realm of songwriting potential. They began creating new music like horny rabbits.

Some artists like Bob Dylan (lyrically) and The Beatles (musically) really didn’t waste the opportunity. They explored a LOT of that Field. And since then the rest of us have been trying to find the gaps, still available but seemingly ever decreasing, to create something original and popular.

In my opinion it’s impossible today to write and release songs that could ever have as much impact as that which those earlier writers and performers achieved.

But there will always be gaps.

And perhaps, unseen by us, that Field Of Possibility is expanding. Stretching to distant horizons, just like the universe.

In this universe it’s never going to help us to sound too much like somebody else.

And why would we want to anyway?