Workshop made in the Texas “Hill Country” by devoted and skilled hands… as always. Always for us means since 2004 “officially” as a legit company with a workshop and a website and a tax # and a bank account. Birdsong as a brand? Y2K, baby. Born in uncertain times, rolling through uncertain times, and rolling ON. Almost makes you feel like all times are uncertain, and to have something going for decades that keeps going is something really special, doesn’t it? Yes. That’s the truth. Truth you can count on in an ever-changing world. What a Birdsong is, what a Birdsong does, and how a Birdsong is made. Tiny in terms of the world perhaps, but if it’s an answer for YOUR world it’s pretty big!
This is the last news page update for 2023. The “Birdsongs in Progress” BUILDS page will be updated through the Holy days and into January, and maybe changed up a bit to work better going forward. WE ARE WORKING THROUGH. There’s no break this year other than days with our various circles – we’re building basses, because you want them and this is what we do. There is a batch in process for early ’24, and one for spring right behind it getting started. Most orders for clients but some for inventory will appear too. Some amazing Corto2s and Cortobasses happening, head luthier Jake doing what he does.
Other than me, nobody on the planet knows how to make a Birdsong. Nobody else knows the recipe. And we’re cooking up some beauties for Birdsong’s 20th my friends! What will show up in Birdsong inventory? What will Chief Woodgnome Scott be selling in his Reverb store? What will the 20th Anniversary celebration look like? Will Jake shave his headsides or stache up like 2009? Who knows! Stay tuned…
Life is full of decisions, and sometimes the most difficult parts are because we choose not to decide. Change lets you know it’s time, gives you signs, puts things in place for it to go as smoothly as it can when engaged in a healthy way. Most people ignore. Many resist; I don’t. Because change brought this all to me in the first place. And change will carry it on. It is the end of the year, but the beginning of another - a time to ponder change and decide how we will see it, as continuous loss, or as springtime rebirth? It’s a dance, a balance. The Holidays bring the realization of both; but in that, YOU have choices and it’s your life. And the new year comes regardless, like the seasons. Ready or not.
Be kind, but be courageous. If the new year comes with change that needs to happen, trust it and trust you and have faith in the process. Guide it with your best and know you’re not alone – just about everybody I know is in change in some way right now. No matter what it is or how big it seems, after this long this deep in the woods in a workshop, I can’t help but see it like the butterfly emerging from the caterpillar; like a sunrise washing away the darkness with dawn; like a piece of something being worked by greater hands and process over time to become, to sing its new song in its new chapter.
From all of us in the Birdsong family – Scott, Jamie, Deb, Jake - and all of our individual circles – we wish you and yours warm Holy days, holidays, days off, and whatever they are to you. Much love and we’ll talk again in January. Thank you so much for being with us and peace be with you.
ORDERS and INFO DURING ALL OF DEC., THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS: WE ARE WORKING! CALLS ARE WELCOME.
SCOTT 512-395-5126
Email: scott@birdsongguitars.com
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Listening to: Speed of Light; The Allman Bros. (The Fillmore Concerts, both CDs); Skip James; Clutch; Masters of Reality (Sunrise on The Sufferbus); Niyaz; Freddy Hubbard (Straight Life); and Soul Heart Transplant: The Lamp Sessions by the Ebony Rhythm Band.