Rough Music a band story On Amazon.

Rough Music is set in the late 1970’s going on to 1980. It is about an American country rock band, who are just beginning after years of hard work, to have some success. They have TV appearances, talk of a movie, hits in the charts. They work hard and try to give their fans a show they will remember. They care about the fans, but life on the road has a lot of hardships. It has compensations, such as a generous supply of young women and easy access to soft drugs. But as the musicians grow older, they acquire wives and children and feel the pull of being away from them. They still sleep around, and don’t feel guilt about it. However by the late 1970s musicians’ wives were beginning to complain about being left behind while their husbands partied, or fooled around, and to talk about “having a life of their own”. Jeff Randles and Brandon Sherwood are the 2 lead singers in the band, and they are good friends. They understand each other. Jeff breaks up his first marriage because his wife Lacy is increasingly sick of his being away, and he finds her cold and uninteresting, but he makes a second marriage, to a girl he hardly knows, but has gotten pregnant. However, he does not know her well and has to adjust to marriage and being a father, while still trying to make a living doing what he loves. I liked writing it because I feel that in life, especially as we get middle aged, there aren’t any easy answers.