Greetings from the road! Well, from the general area I used to be - which is now part of the road. While talking with clients and running the biz end of things, your friend the little feathered woodgnome is out wandering and seeing the beauty of this country and its different terrains and circles. In life we find our place and find our service, and that may change over time; but if we stay open to it and bring our highest to what it becomes, we help things happen better than remaining our old stories, our old roles, when those seasons roll into the next.
One big stop on the trail was to the Birdsong workshop, out with Head Luthier Jake Goede now. I can’t even tell you all how good it is to see that all I am isn’t all that Birdsong can ever be - that this amazing adventure Jamie & I gave life and I flew for many years has stronger life in stronger hands, ready for its NEXT twenty years! Literally the best Birdsongs ever, right now. I’m here (wherever I am, at 512-395-5126 and birdsongbass@yahoo.com) to answer all questions and help with your order; Jake? In a small workshop deep in the Texas Hill Country, his hands craft the wood and wire across the benches into these little miracles. Like a Birdsong bass itself, everything is where it needs to be to bring its best to what’s happening.
I stopped in to visit Jamie and Maggie the fuzzy girl, both doing so well and that’s so good to see too. Jamie sends her love out to all of the Birdsong family, and Maggie - who is very far along her path at this point and not seeing much, but adapts to her own seasons with grace I have learned much from, is getting around OK in a beautiful place with a field to walk and roll in the sun, and mama (Jamie) always right there. The Cortobass, Birdsong, your life and path, the trucker, the stranger at the bus stop, the farmer in the field. We too are tools, and farmers in smaller fields of our own, and we can help feed good things happening.
What can be made of this? That is my perpetual question and eternal quest. Of me, of our dance when you call, of Birdsong, of its ripples into Jake’s world (www.goedeguitars.com) and my own (www.sbeckwith.com), this world where, however it appears, there IS still music playing and sunshine and fields and circles of people committed to doing their best toward making music happen between each other. Go find your place in this song. And, if it should need an incredible playing, easy handling, huge sounding smaller bass crafted (as always) with love and care and respect deep in the woods of the central Texas hills, give me a call! Especially the re-introduced Cbass, it’s a total win. I’ll post more in a bit.
Much love and music,
