Tuesday 05/21/2024
Messed around in the morning. Sat through the writers meeting, I had nothing to contribute. Worked on music. Specifically, spent some time trying to learn a song by — well I didn’t mention the most significant thing about my Cal. avenue farmers market visit of Sunday, did I?
As usual there were street musicians performing at various spots. One guy, solo, playing a 6-string acoustic guitar, caught my attention because he looked kinda like me, playing. Well he wore jeans and a fedora. Stopped to listen and put a buck in his cash bucket, but then kept listening because the songs he was singing were somehow right down my alley. I ended up buying his CD because he was giving away a xerox printout of the lyrics and guitar chords to go with it. His name is Michael Bechler; he’s a total unknown and likely to stay that way; he has a web page that is just embarrassingly amateurish. But he has written some really nice songs. One I’m practicing up and will probably play at my next appearance is “New Lover’s Waltz“. Sentimental, but easy to play and sing and kinda catchy. I’m also working on “Margaritaville“. Talk about a song that sounds simple but is really subtle. Nothing happens on the downbeat.
Codgerville 