When the specter of COVID-19 ripped up tour schedules in March, country music's artist managers took a deep breath, wrote off a few concerts and prepared to relaunch their clients' calendars at the end of spring or the beginning of summer. Five months later, the novel coronavirus rages stronger with no sign that the touring business, the key revenue stream for most artists and managers, will return to any sense of normalcy before next spring at the earliest. As a result, managers find themselves in an unenviable predicament, asked to keep their sometimes fragile artists moving forward while simultaneously trying to keep their own businesses afloat.Incomes have dropped by as much as 95%, according to Fusion Management/Red Light manager Daniel Miller (Martina McBride, Cassadee Pope) and LP Creative Management owner LeAnn Phelan (singer-songwriter Jake Rose, pop artist Natalie Madigan).