Among musicians, dreams die hard. This video from Eric Sandvik (Dwayne838) is a true life miniature melodrama. It has all the ingredients of a movie or a classic cry-in-your-beer country song: pathos, shattered hopes, hustlers, the shady side of the music business, Nashville, Memphis, an out of control Greyhound bus, the will to keep on keepin’ on and a bittersweet ending.

You gotta love Eric for sticking to the thing he loves best, his music, even when it bites him in the ass.

My advice to Eric is to steer clear of the Nashville jive, stay in Jersey where what you see is what you get.  And don’t spend what you don’t got. The rock and roll gravy train has left the station. And The Eagles suck.

Good luck, man

Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don’t let ‘em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
Let ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such.
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
‘Cos they’ll never stay home and they’re always alone.