Intro
musical background and (mis)education
- writing songs
- teaching brother
- school chorus
Body
what this did was make me in charge of my own education.
- library
- radio
- radio announcers
by my late teens, I had a self-identity as a songwriter, hard-won by perseverance and stubbornness. Reading a library copy of Guitar Player Magazine, I found a small item about a songwriting competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival in the hill country of Texas.
- entering competition
- losing competition
- making it one off my life's missions
- year after year of losing
I went from being young to nearly middle aged in 1992, when I entered the Columbia River Folk Music Festival.
- competing and winning
- chosen by festival producer
- being booked for Kerrville
Preparing for appearance and performing
- knowing everything by heart
- bee charging
- realizing the songs' non-placement in contests
- the zone, of sorts
Conclusion
- being paid, hotel, flight, tickets for forever
- I'll never learn what winning is like. I did learn, however, about the luxury of air-conditioning in one of Kerrville's finest hotels. I set the temperature at 60 degrees and if I hadn't fallen asleep first, victorious and vindicated.
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