Love Streams

Abstract

I’m sure each generation of musicians feels they’ve lived through a time of tremendous change, but the shifts I’ve witnessed in my relatively short music career — from morphing formats to dissolving business models — do seem extraordinary. The first album I made was originally released on LP only, in 1988 — and my next will likely only be pressed on LP again. But in between, the music industry seems to have done everything it could to screw up that simple model of exchange; today it is no longer possible for most of us to earn even a modest wage through our recordings.