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I am a solo-musician. My blog documents my struggles and personal insights into song writing, performing and inspiration.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Friends,

I am a song writer with a whole lot of nothing going for me, all of the time. What a way to start a blog don’t you think? Welcome to my puddle of failures, triumphs and personal quirks about putting your heart on paper and soul on six strings.
I named this blog after a song I wrote about a homeless fellow I met in Niagara Falls when I was seventeen. He carried everything he owned on his back, including his only friend – a black acoustic guitar missing two strings. Out of tune and tattered, his guitar sounded terrible. His stories about making his own way from a broken home in Guelph, Ontario, were inspiring yet disturbing. A couple hands of change and my favourite guitar pick went a long way. It was an explicit experience by my own right, and one that anyone but me would label defining; but I regard that encounter as the backbone to which I base my song writing beginnings on. I offer up anything but proven theory and reliable information. This is my outlet documenting my journey to writing the greatest songs I could ever write.

5 comments:

  1. Walter Cherry, whomever you are. Sometimes it's your failures that lead you to your greatest successes. Seems to me like the journey you are about to take us on will prove to us and hopefully yourself that the way you started this blog is incorrect. Seems to me that being a song writer with a tremendous amount of passion can be considered a lot more then nothing, all of the time...

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  2. Fabulous. I look forward to reading your blog. As an inspiring musician myself, and one that wishes she could write songs, I'm excited to follow your journey and maybe, just maybe, I'll get a song out of it by the end.

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  3. This is really good, I hope wherever you are whatever you are doing that you always have a smile on your face and a guitar in your hand. Do what you love, the rest is all a mystery. This is really good, I look forward to the other blogs. p.s Cool and the Gang came out with a song many years ago called, "Joanna".... consider it. hahah

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  4. Walker, I love this story and it explains allot about your music and who you are as a person. There is no doubt in my mind that this moment was an inspiring and life changing moment for you.

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  5. Thank you for sharing with me your failures and triumphs. The life of an artist has never been easy. We know several stories of artists who have succeed after years and years of "battling". Thank you for giving me your CD. You are a very good song writer and musician. Hang in there! Don't give up! Good luck!

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