Industry Rediscovers Its Troubadour Traditions
$5.95 (U.S.), $6.95 (CAN.), £4.95 (U.K.), Y2,500 (JAPAN) 11.1..11..,1..1.11,,,I...1.. 11..1..111 I [[Hi[[ #BXNCCVR 3 -DIGIT 908 #90807GEE374EMO02# BLBD 815 A06 B0118 001 MAR 02 2 MONTY GREENLY 3740 ELM AVE # A LONG BEACH CA 90807 -3402 THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKL OF MUSIC, VIDEO, AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT DECEMBER 22. 2001 Industry Rediscovers Its Troubadour Traditions BY WES ORSHOSKI before and after it closed -Ondrasik NEW YORK -Five for Fighting's found himself filled with pride and Jon Ondrasik is living proof that, hope for his own career as he saw during the past decade, it hasn't firsthand how, after years of being been particularly easy to be a devel- ignored by U.S. record buyers, Gray oping male singer /songwriter. was enjoying stardom in the States. Launching his career in a decade "I remember us laughing, because that was first ruled by grunge, then we both had suffered through [the by alt -rock, hip -hop, and teen pop, U.S.] EMI [Records label] closing and Ondrasik found himself coping every other record company passing with many frustrations in the '90s, on us and our records," Ondrasik says including the closure of his first la- of a shared moment on that tour, bel, EMI, and industry execs blunt- which ended roughly a year before ly telling him that, although he Ondrasik himself would begin tast- wrote good songs, he wouldn't sell ing mainstream success with his "Su- many albums. songwriters were faring much bet- exemplified by the three Lilith Fairs toured the U.S.
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