When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.
I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.
Before I started writing for myself, I was writing country records, and they were coming out dope.
The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.
Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.
I grew up in an era where the record companies just sold records to everybody, and the whole family bought songs.