Pleasant Surprise from Vermont: “Stony Creek”
A few days ago, I was feeling a bit down – this continuous ride of “Up, people noticing & enjoying my music”, “Down, is the ride over?” is taking a bit of a toll.
Then, I received an email from my publicist, Curtis Smith of Maelstrom Music PR, about his trip to Vermont.
At some inn at which he was staying he ran into some random woman from Bondville, Vermont. I have no idea why they spoke to each other or why Curtis mentioned me? Still, when he did, she told him, “Oh, I know his music! I hear “Stony Creek” all the time on the radio.”
Hey, how cool is that? Somebody not only knows of Magic Brook, but listens to him (me!).
Now mind, readers: Bondville is nowhere near where my friends have places in “The Northeast Kingdom”; that is, in the Northeast portion of Vermont. I figure I might get play there – because I know folks. But in the center or South of Vermont? I’m not sure I know but one person there.
So, whoever is spinning Magic Brook’s The Source, thank you! (if you read this, let me know who you are, ok?)
Thanks, Curtis, for passing that along. I needed something to pull up from my current funk. All work and not much play makes those brooks very cloudy and dammed up!
Thank you listeners. I create this music to be heard as much as for any personal sense of whatever it is that drives me to create? (sometimes, I think it may be nothing more than an itch that has to be scratched! smile. These tunes will drive me batty if I don’t honor them by composing them, learning to play them and thus getting them “out” as it were).
By the way, for those folks who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have a show upcoming, December 5th, at the Bazaar Cafe.
I’m sharing the show with my long time collaborator, Bernie Gilbert, master of the sharp lyric turn, the parody, and the heart tugging story in song. I’ll post more as the show approaches
Take are, all,
/brook