Rough Music a band story

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.  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 then.  They still sleep around, and don’t feel too much guilt about it.  Having women is one of the perks of being in a musical lifestyle.  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”.  And to complain that the husbands were never there when needed.  Jeff Randles and Brandon Sherwood are the 2 lead singers in the band, and they are good friends.   They understand each other and in some ways feel closer to each other than they do to their wives.  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.

This is not really a romance albeit it is about love relationships and marriage.  It is more about life in general, about how far we can compromise in terms of work we do, and how to make a marriage last when a lot of things are against it.  I liked writing it because I feel that in life, especially as we get middle aged, there aren’t any easy answers…. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rough-Music-Nadine-Sutton-ebook/dp/B01AEQS0G0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452977780&sr=8-1&keywords=nadine+sutton