Excellent commentary by suspense master Stephen King:

This is a sad story about how good you can be in America and still not be quite good enough to make it. It's about an alt-country band called Diesel Doug and the Long Haul Truckers .…

[H]ow did a band this good, this tight, fail to make the big time (or even the middle time) in a country where a no-talent, off-key screamer like William Hung could sell hundreds of thousands of records? …

All I know is that talent is a lightning rod and America is a thunderstorm. You go running around like crazy, you get soaked, your arm gets tired holding that damn thing up...and still, lightning, all too often, strikes half a block over, electrifying someone else.

Read the full story — "Mistakes Were Made" — from Entertainment Weekly.