Clearly the pendulum had swung away from her. The new album is her attempt to jump back on that pendulum.

That album was just rejected outright by country radio. It was like an open revolt against one of country's biggest superstars.

The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the interest-rate differentials. They have really renewed their widening.

There was a period when there were few modern standard bearers. Now lots of people are doing traditional country.

I felt like we swung at a lot of balls and took a lot of strikes. Tonight, he struck out three in the first but after that we made that adjustment, where we swung at the strikes and took the balls, and obviously it made a big difference.

Clearly the momentum is in our favor.