Something has dawned on me. Now that the economy is decomposing, this is an opportune time for musicians to buck up and start making some ‘hard time’ tunes. If there was one good thing that came out of the Great Depression besides a strong back and haggard old timers, it was the large advancement of jazz and the blues. Of course heroin probably deserves some credit, but since we have moved past the morphine addictive byproduct of World War 1, we can assume that another opiate will have to do. Perhaps hunger pangs could produce enough of an endorphin rush to spur the creative soul. Either way, the MTV culture in terms of musical expression isn’t going to be adding to any sort of intellectual revolution any time soon. I call upon the lower end of the exposed music rung to come forth with the next Kind of Blue. We can still salvage a musical benchmark out of this tattered generation.