He noted that during his latter years at Decca and MCA, he was constantly pressured by label heads to record more mainstream-friendly country pop instead of the traditional sounds of his earlier albums, due to the genre's shift away from neotraditional country having a negative impact on his album sales.
During his final years with Decca and MCA, the artist was under considerable pressure from label executives to create more popular country pop music rather than continuing with the traditional styles of his previous albums. This change in the genre negatively affected his album sales.