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<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\u00a0<\/p>\nI\u2019m so glad I\u2019m not in the music game anymore. It\u2019s a tough way to make a living. First you have to learn to play music. Find other musicians with whom you can actually get along (harder than you might think). Then you have to learn a whole new skill set \u2013 producing songs for live shows. Once you figure that out you become your own booking agent, manager, road manager and merch salesman. Plus your shows are terrible at first because you don\u2019t know what you are doing yet. Then comes about two years of struggling to figure it out. Hundreds of shows for less than 20 people. Three hour sets in a bar and grill while somebody yells out \u201cFreebird!\u201d every fifteen minutes \u2013 like you haven\u2019t heard it a million times already. Once you finally scrap and fight your way to the point where you can make a living at it, somebody creates the Spice Girls\u2026 ugh.<\/p>\nI\u2019ve heard more than my fair share of criticism of Mumford and Sons. Most of it comes from seasoned musicians \u2013 folks who earned their stripes the hard way. The criticism is usually, \u201cI don\u2019t get it,\u201d or \u201cthis is the stuff we did sitting around stoned in my bedroom when I was in 8th grade.\u201d It\u2019s hard not to smell the sour grapes in the critique. I remember the exact same stuff being said (by me?), about Jars of Clay back when we were all just starting out in the mid 90s. Satellite Soul was my life. We were working our tails of and Jars comes along\u2026 they could barely play their instruments when they first started out. I once watched them try four times to get their DAT audio player to start so they could perform a song \u2013 implication being that they couldn\u2019t play the song without the music track (Millie Vanilli style). I would say, \u201cThis is nothing that any youth group band couldn\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\nThe thing is \u2013 it wasn\u2019t something any youth group band could do. If it was, they would\u2019ve done it. It\u2019s always harder than it looks. I regret that I said those things back then. I have nothing but respect for anyone who puts their music out there and tries to be vulnerable in that way. Jars of Clay grew into their own music and became, frankly, an amazing band making great music and putting on shows that were crazy fun to watch.<\/p>\nMy wife was listening to Sirius \u2013 the channel that plays Mumford and Sons, The Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, Phillip Phillips et al. The DJ (they still have those on Sirius), was trying to come up with a new name for the genre. His audience helped him and they arrived at \u201cArena Folk.\u201d I love it.<\/p>\nSo enjoy a little Friday Funny at the expense of Mumford and Sons, who I\u2019m guessing will be laughing all the way to the bank!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 I\u2019m so glad I\u2019m not in the music game anymore. It\u2019s a tough way to make a living. First you have to learn to play music. Find other musicians with whom you can actually get along (harder than you might think). 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