K.T. Oslin's new album hits stores

NASHVILLE (AP) - K.T. Oslin's first album in five years, "Live Close By, Visit Often," is in stores this week. "I probably won't do another album," the 59-year-old singer-songwriter said. "Because I'm old and I have to deal with the fact that this business is youth-oriented. The older I get, I'm not going to be writing teenybopper songs. And I'm sure not going to be singing them." Oslin scored her career-making hit "80's Ladies" in 1987. When the hits stopped coming in the mid-1990s, she pulled back from touring. In 1995, she had quadruple bypass heart surgery. Although Oslin senses that her music is too mature for the marketplace, she's not worried about how well the album will sell. "If this album were a big success then I would do an album of standards," she said. "If not, I have a number of hobbies that I really enjoy, and they occupy a great deal of my concentration and creativeness."