So,  I'm being told by *the cognoscenti*   That my country songs are way too complicated for  the country market.  This disappoints me both because it's a lost opportunity and because *the cognoscenti* apparently are prejudiced (they do live in New York).   The lyrics are too poetic in other words, they need to be more pedestrian.  What should I do?  I mean I don't write that way.  The words and the music come at the same time. Are there any lyricists that want to work together?

eph221
What should I do?  

Stop thinking that they really DO know more about the subject than others do?  Music that refuses to fit into a label's desired mold is usually the most entertaining anyway.  Put it up on various mediums like YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Feckbook, whatever, then start a crowd-funding to release 500 or so CD's.

Oh wait, you said it's Country??? 
 
Nevermind. 
 

Ya...*islands in the stream:  Delos, Mykanos, lesbos...etc*

I'm crazy for feeling this way I know
 

How do you expect anyone to ever take you seriously if you always keep going back to the the same old thing ?
 
Kenny

Craig took me seriously.  Not sure what you mean.

Write from your heart and instincts. NOTHING else. Don't compromise. When you compromise your music the music is no longer yours or you. Remember WILLIE!

Thanks for the words of Becan bill.

I don't think you can go wrong if you write for an audience of one (you). Surely you are not so weird that no one else shares your tastes.