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November 14, 2024
Somewhere in Florida (for the moment)
What a year! These five photos show where my head is, closing out 2024 and feeling springtime in my autumn. The headstock of my “Scott’s Signature” pocket basses (NEW VIDEO of the Sport bass HERE), the D’AQUILA J1 represents the high-end guitars now a focus after decades on the side (HERE), a Martin and a motel - much of this year for me, over many miles, a shot from my 1876 homestead nest come the spring up in the Adirondacks (a bit about New Shanti below in the previous post), and Renee out jamming on her wild Sport. The video is of this bass! (Thanks, R!)
Taking reservations for my first batch up there in the spring - there’s a beautiful old workshop just waiting on my tools and tunes, and I’m very excited to be returning to the northeast after decades in Texas. I DO have body blanks ready to start there, and also have a few Sports and a Style B started in the TX workshop to complete up there. AND… what about a 2-pickup model based off the old “Shortbass” template? Get in touch and make one yours for you! Also, any questions or orders for the www.birdsongguitars.com workshop in Texas in Head Luthier Jake’s hands, I’m the guy. 512-395-5126 (call and if I don’t answer, leave a message with your number).
The road this fall has been very scenic and full of inspiration - I will carry it through winter in various places (of course I’ll share that with you here - AND weekly on my Facebook page - thanks so much for being with me), here is a collection of road and fall pictures from my travels the past few months…
My journey, the trip to fulfill my dharma of “helping the music happen” that began as a kid in Massachusetts a lifetime ago, continues. I am grateful for that, grateful for all a part of the epic adventure of the Texas years, grateful to YOU, grateful to the road for again leading me somewhere that feels like destiny, grateful to the mountains calling me home, grateful to Creation and the music that was put in my soul, and grateful for this opportunity to serve your music and inspiration - thus, your life in some way - and thus, the lives around you and wherever your ripples go. Have a safe next month and a couple of weeks, warm Thanksgiving, sacred Holy days, and if we don’t talk (call me, for real, your interest and orders are blessings to me), be good to yourself, nourishing to your spirit, and kind to each other. I’ll post again just after New Years. Namaste, brethren!
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New: made or become fresh again
Shanti (Sanskrit): peace or inner peace
My friend, welcome to the barn and workshop of New Shanti. Two inspiring old spaces of a magical new place where I will be living, creating, and crafting. My next chapter now has its new garden to be seeded in, far up in the beautiful Adirondack mountains of northern New York. I will be settling in come spring 2025 for a new springtime of my own of woodcraft, words, and music. It is where the winds of destiny have (once more) sailed me in a little van; how my life happens! Priorities will be continuing to manage Birdsong Guitars, makers of pro short scale basses since 2004, crafted by Head Luthier Jake Goede in Texas; building and offering my own super short scale basses and absolute passion-project D’AQUILA solid jazz guitars; and making MUSIC, which is what got me out on this path as a kid to begin with. Here it all comes full circle, and I hope you’ll join me with the walk to come, right here on sbeckwith.com. Stay tuned!
And oh… if you’d really like to be a part of it, I’m taking orders for the spring ‘25 batch of “Scott’s Signature” instruments, or pick up a few books (mine are obvious)! Thanks as always! ~S.
FOR NOW… more updates from my travels and times through the fall and winter:
Scott’s ROADSIDE REVIEW #1
Snoop Dogg “O.G. BAR-B-QUE CHEDDAR” Potato Chips
Photo: Convenience store lot near Lakeland, TN
Well I’m further down the road in Arkansas now; it was time to get a room. Between the deodorant I use and the way I like my food spiced, I smelled like someone’s sexy grandpa in a locker room next to an Indian buffet. But, before I take care of all that, it’s time to type up a roadside review! And today, to the ever-expanding quest for culinary excellence, comes this masterpiece of marketing… a bag of RAP Snacks ICON Snoop Dogg chips. I mean for $2.73 who’d pass up BBQ cheddar chips with Snoop on them? OK, don’t answer that. But just outside of Nashville I did not, and it was meant to be, because the quarter I got back as change was a 1976 Bicentennial, and I’ve been putting those aside since I was a kid! OK, onto this marvel of merchandising.
”Stay focused and relentless” the bag says. I guess if that means whoring your face on a bag of snacks literally a quarter full, well, there you have it. The chips were very thin, kind of lacking in crispness, AND flavor for how much orange powder was on these things. It did build, but if you did take a teaspoon of anything having to do with BBQ and added a piece of anything even related to cheese, this wouldn’t taste anything like that. But, for two vague quasi-impersonations of these flavors, it was a good balance between them. Whatever they are. I guess if you’re high enough to actually buy these as more than a prop, you’ll likely be more easily impressed. I mean two or three Andy Capp hot fries would whip-ass this whole bag of nonsense. “O.G.” my ASS, Calvin.
Nutrition facts panel states 3 servings per container. For real? When have you ever sat down and ate 5 little chips, Calvin? That’s no snack… that’s stranded on an island, man. So overall, not bad, and that’s the best I can give it. I mean Pringles is high-grade stuff compared to this - real Cadillac - this is more 20-year-old Nissan Maxima with the wheels spray painted gold. Extra point for the positivity on the packaging, but I give it 2 out of 5 rolling wheels… and, I’m sorry, one finger up for the two bucks of puffed air.
~S.
Somewhere on the road.
Stay tuned for more!
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Wednesday Oct. 9, 2024
Somewhere in PA
Room #114
Here are some photos I took in the North Country of New York state; may they bring peace, reverence, and inspiration to whoever needs them. I’m off on the road, was going to head to Florida but the storm went from CAT 1 to 5 quickly, I was too far away to get down 75 into the state, and all of my people in various spots I spoke with advised me to steer clear. Not like I could hold back a hurricane or any hand of fate it may bring, but I know plan Bs for a lot and could help… but honestly, this is bigger than all of that. So, while I'm out here wandering around and piecing together "next" for me, I know some very special people in Florida facing truly serious times over the next few days... some of you I’ve been running around too much recently to be visiting like I wanted. ALL of you I wish peace, my deepest love and friendship, and all of my prayers.
Sometimes circumstances add up to situations too big to side-step; not enough time, nowhere to go, no way out or around… only through. For some I know this is today for you. It weighs heavy out here and, whether family or friends or we’ve never met or even talked - just know you are loved. That’s all I can do, but I send it your way with my prayers for your safety and your peace. With nothing I can do but keep going on my way, I veer west and keep going.
(POST-STORM UPDATE: Everyone in my circle is OK.)
For all in harm’s way.
~S.
September 30, 2024
Mooers Forks, NY
Greetings from “The North Country.” This is not just a photo of a guitar on a bench. This is the beginning of new chapters to come. The guitar belonged to my stepfather, and setting it up was the deliberate first work in this very old workshop now very new to me. This great man from Oswego, NY lived a long life and met my mother last year in the same community in Sarasota, FL. In their 80s they fell in love, moved in, got married, bought a place, and moved from their complex. In the face of death they laughed and had themselves a brief but amazing time made up of every moment they could grab. In one of our last conversations, he was thrilled where my life was headed. Not merely my own heading into the next chapter of this great adventure it has turned into over the past 30 years, but locationally too. Those of you following know I had been in the Texas “Hill Country” for a long time, but we all know life chapters out and you either embrace your own changes and help those of folks around you, or you fight it and lose slowly… because when it’s time for change, it happens one way or the other.
So after much wandering and soul searching, the call to fall and seasons in my own autumn, and falling in love with the far north Adirondacks, I have bought the workshop to plant myself and my tools. This is where, come the actual season spring, my world will be based. This shop is where the SPORT basses and D’AQUILA guitars will be hand crafted; there’s an old farmhouse from 1876 and big barn to play around in too! All things in their time; lots of things in Texas and Florida to still attend to until then. I am hoping to get a few SPORT basses together to sell over the winter, so do stay tuned! So much more to come, and I’ll keep you posted right here. And remember - Birdsong basses are in the hands of Head Luthier Jake in a small workshop in the Texas Hill Country for the past year and carrying it on through year 20. I still run Birdsong (www.birdsongguitars.com), so if you want one or have questions, I’m here for you wherever I am. AND… for my own stuff here on this site… there is really old wood in the barn loft and it will become very special musical instruments next year! If you’re interested, I’m booking builds for a small spring batch, the first from the northeast workshop. 512-395-5126 / wingfeathermusic@yahoo.com
Here are some pics of a super-short scale SPORT bass in action! Renee is 5’2”, so you can see just how well this huge sounding little bass fits shorter folks like us. But feedback from people of all sizes has been SO positive about the SPORT’s ergonomics and traveling size, and they get lots of attention for the voice that comes out of them.
Alrighty brethren - stay inspired and I’ll post more soon! Live in the face of whatever you face, walk the road you’re called, and help make some music happen. Much love.
~S.
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Email wingfeathermusic@yahoo.com
Get busy, top-load your week, and help make big things happen! You rock. You've got this.
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September 8, 2024
Somewhere in south Florida
Greetings all, hope your sweet summer is cooling down into a fantastic fall-to-be. Your intrepid wandering woodgnome is close to riding out probably the most packed months of life so far, and I’ll be able to fill you in completely by my next update. You know, when last autumn began changes, I said to myself “Self, go travel a bit and relax. Re-gather after 25-plus balls-out years of guitar companies, workshops, homestead, music shops, books, music, and - most exhausting of all - being Scott. Toss the deck into the air and see how the cards fall. Spend time in temples and on beaches. Get to know 55 year old Scott as more than just what young sweaty Scott turned into. What are HIS new dreams? What does HE need?” So, with a 23-year run with my dear friend and long-time wife Jamie back to friends, Birdsong making handed off to Head Luthier Jake, and a long chapter in the woods having run its own natural course to being a runway out for whatever’s next, off to the road I went.
Amazing road time, thousands of miles, lost treasure, vehicle adjustment, springtime in the summer, love, loss, life, death, 27 states, and music woven through it all… there are now albums to record and at least another book of material. And I run Birdsong (here for you no matter where I am, 512-395-5126, birdsongbass@yahoo.com, www.birdsongguitars.com), and though I haven’t had the workshop time for my own stuff I had hoped this season, I WILL be crafting more of my special super short scale basses I do on the side! I haven’t had the relaxing, temple, beach, playing, regrouping times like I aimed for either. But I’m not complaining, just a little tired, LOL. Above in the pics, I got in a visit to my old shop in Melrose, MA where this WHOLE RUN started in late 1996. I navigated some by an old road atlas that belonged to sweet Miss Joy, bless her soul. I ate GREAT pizza in a few locations. I read the signs. And next chapter is forming! All of this travel and adventure and all is adding up to something!
More to come… but for now, take this as encouragement for YOU in any way you may need that it may nourish. Embrace the changes that come and take some time - or, take in some scenery - to ponder “What can be made of this?” “What is the opportunity this all brings?” And go with that. We’ll talk soon. And if you’re interested in the guitars and basses I build, or Birdsong, feel free to call or email.
Thanks for being along on the ride!
~S.
August 7, 2024
Location: “In-between.”
That is the state I’m in, for the curious. The state of in-between. And it’s absolutely glorious. Life gives you a chapter and it doesn’t always necessarily have to become something else… I mean it WILL, they DO, it’s what happens… and it would behoove one to take an active role in guiding it, and I am, this is part of that. But it’s not THAT yet, whatever that will be, and THAT IS OK. Some look at one trip as the adventure of a lifetime. I look at life as the adventure of a lifetime, and what a trip it has been! The framework? “Still based in TX but spending time here and there, small rented workshop spaces, can do what I do anywhere, connected and running the business / orders / client side of Birdsong, talking with folks and working up my own next batch of orders for the Sport basses, embracing the rolling of the road as the river.”
Around that swirls, like mystic clouds, this aura of magic moments I know are very fleeting; free time and a world of opportune garden plots. Very quickly a life re-seeds and roots happen and that’s beautiful too. But everyone I talk to out here - real estate person, musician, clerks and casual laundromat chats - asks me simple questions I don’t have answers for at the moment, because I’m kinda floating and very at home in that floaty space. I have faith there will be a where and a who and a what and a why when the ways I AM guiding it reveal their forms to me - this location and that circle and it grows from there. But now, it’s “So where do you live?” and “Oh, well where are you going?” And when I tell them a whole book of life chapters all changed together, and it’s all good, but life freed me up to be out exploring what’s next; that the dreams of young sweaty Scott worked out but worked to this, and now it’s time for a chapter designed by 55 year old Scott who maybe wants seasons and a mountain view… and that’s what every mile brings me closer to, even if I don’t know where that is… that I’ll know when I get there… people are in awe. “That’s amazing.” “That’s extraordinary.”
I mean, we’re all doing this to some extent, in one way or another. My version is just my whole life at the moment, and it’s really intensifying the magic of everything from that sky I look up at a lot, to the amazing people I’m crossing paths with (consider yourself one), to every carve of the chisel and rub of the oil when I’m in the workshop crafting an instrument… whether IT has a home yet or not. It’ll know when it’s time. As will I. So, if you’d like one (or two) of what I do, look around this site and give me a call or email and we’ll talk. If you want a Birdsong (20 YEARS!) check out www.birdsongguitars.com… and give me a call or an email. 512-395-5126, wingfeathermusic@yahoo.com for me, birdsongbass@yahoo.com for Birdsong. I’m here for you wherever I am. And wherever you are, look up at that magic sky. If there are changes that need to happen, begin now and have faith in the process. Wishing you whatever is needed to live in joy today; life is amazing. Take it, hold it, and use it. Much love from somewhere out on the road! ~S.
July 22, 2024
Scott’s “pop-up” shop in a land of citrus and sun
When I roll, I roll; when it’s time to rock, back in the shop I go! Finishing up this early Birdsong-run Sport bass (1st batch of Sports in ‘23) to fly home to its waiting hands. If you want a “Scott Special” SPORT bass, the little miracle bass that could, and did, and does - get in touch for one of a couple of fall build slots! That little feather was on my current workshop bench when I got back in this morning. Life is magic if you’re no too busy to notice. And, from just a few days ago, CRAN ONE and the sunset over a truck stop lot somewhere out on the road. More road pics and posts (https://www.facebook.com/scott.beckwith.35) AND more little basses, AND more music and writings… all coming! Some soon, do stay tuned. I appreciate you! Rock on. ~S.
July 19, 2024
A coffee shop in Texas
Having breezed through the area I used to live in, now part of the road, I stop for a moment to share a highlight. I stopped in at the Birdsong nest (being I’m still Captain of that ship and all) and hung out with head luthier Jake Goede who has carried the making of www.birdsongguitars.com basses since late last year. You know when big changes need to happen, and they happen, and then everybody is blossoming into being even better now that it did? Well, here’s Jake with the best Birdsong basses ever, carrying on the tradition, keeping the river flowing, and bringing HIS best to it as I and others brought ours. I remember in 2007 when Jake (who also does www.goedeguitars.com), fresh out of luthier school, showed up after a phone call and I handed him a bass body and said “It would be miraculous if I could have another one like this and not have to do it too.” He brought back, in a few days, another one just like it that I didn’t have to do. This was a game changer; all I could do was no longer all Birdsong could ever be. And many years later, I look at these basses the same way. Miracles. And in my autumn I am freed to wander, to ponder, to “recalculate” in Garmin-ese. To build in much smaller numbers my little pocket basses and (when I really settle again) some D’AQUILA guitars. Life’s changes - and yours, and mine - are just everything evolving and moving forward. We find our role and it finds us, and we find our way to serve. When that season changes, we adjust to keep flowing WITH the river. To be sanding WITH the grain. Do what you’re best suited for NOW and place the rest in hands that see themselves in THAT. Birdsong Guitars, why anyone reading this likely knows me at all, is in great hands. I run the ship and talk with YOU, and Jake hand crafts the wood and wire into little miracles for you, from out deep in the Texas Hill Country area where Birdsong is from and belongs. Me? I had an incredible adventure of a summer of life there… but the road rolls on. What is to come? Well today, a laundromat, this corner table for another hour or so, and very likely some miles behind the wheel on a highway. Right now, it’s where I belong. Much love and stay tuned…
~S.
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A truck show at the largest truck stop in the world is kind of like a car show, only bigger. Having made great time to within a few hours of a planned meet-up and having a day to spare, there I was with my inner kid completely losing his grease over such a celebration of machines and road culture. Trucks in the show, most of them still working out on the highways hauling our stuff; trucks in the trucking museum; trucks in the lot. I’ve wandered highways whenever I got the chance for as long as I’ve had wheels to be my wings. I have never seen anything on this scale. A subculture of America as American as it gets as being the backbone and motion for a far-flung nation of folks who love our stuff, concentrated into one heroic dose. And there you have it, the most “super-sized” thing I’ve ever seen, in every way. Where now? Stay tuned! For more posts? My Facebook page.
I have updated the BASSES page here, all about my current pocket bass making focus and the models I offer, including words from a new SPORT owner. CALL and we’ll get you one of these little miracles, OK? I only have THREE build slots for orders in the fall ‘24 batch to be started in September.
Photos:
1st Anniversary Sport of American maple, alder, and black walnut - will be fancy, with carved edges and engravings with turquoise; 4 beauties - Sport in unusual bloodwood and mahogany (client order), Sport in cherry (client order), Sport in poplar (available, better color in the 3rd pic), and Style B (SOLD, Texas mesquite) - more to come!
Best ways to contact me this summer, in order, TO order or just get in touch:
Phone calls to 512.395.5126
Facebook (Scott page) PMs
Emails to: wingfeathermusic@yahoo.com
Thanks so much, and stay cool!
~S.
June 14th, 2024
Worthington Springs, FL
(For the latest bass build pictures, go to the basses page and scroll down)
First update using the new laptop! I am not into the latest or most feature-packed anything, in fact I deliberately head the other way. This is a major system update for me; my little laptop used to be my backup, but my life is a laptop life now, given the travels and where I have internet and not where I’m hanging out for a little while. So here we are!
The big news? In a couple of weeks, it’s Birdsong Guitars’ 20th anniversary celebration! Birdsong is the mothership and why most of you even know who I am. There were pre-company years prior to 2004, and I did my 22 years as quarterback, receiver, GM AND spokesperson with so much help from great people, including co-founder and best summer-of-life wife ever Jamie Hornbuckle; it was quite the adventure! (Jamie is doing fine and selling real estate in the Austin TX area - if you need anything, get in touch…) Last year absolute Birdsong legend and right hand man Jake Goede returned to become Head Luthier for Birdsong and be the workshop, still in the woods of the beautiful Texas “Hill Country.” I manage the business of being and post and talk and take orders. So this is a different kind of anniversary, but wow - 20 YEARS OFFICIALLY on July 4th. There will be announcements, surprises, and deals aplenty the 4th from 9AM EST through the weekend to the evening of the 7th, I’m looking to book Jake up through 2025. Info and goings-on will be constantly updated at www.birdsongguitars.com, on the Birdsong Guitars Facebook page (like, follow and share) and on my own Facebook page (ditto, please - and friend).
And, in my sort of free-spirited pop-up-shop world of the REALLY short scale, which is my focus? Here are a few pics (above) for you! Well, last year during the anniversary was when the little 25-1/2” scale SPORT bass was introduced, first as a Birdsong model! SOOOOO to celebrate, how about this - the official 1st Anniversary Sport bass. 1 of 1, maple and walnut with a little alder, unique among the Sports in that it’s getting special edge carving, maple neck and board, introducing a slightly more proportional headstock, rear routed controls, turquoise engraving inlay, black hardware with gold accents, and - for you numbers geeks like me - the serial number includes all the numbers OF the first anniversary date of 7-4-2024! #2407. I’ll get this into my fall batch for you if you want it! There’s ONLY ONE, at $2500. But you can still order a regular Sport anytime too, from $1600. I’ll be doing another few in Sept. - Oct.
Meanwhile, I have the Texas mesquite Style B (a Sport with a different shape) and a specially priced original prototype Birdsong Sport in poplar almost ready, both are for sale at $1850 and $1500. These prices include bag & shipping in the continental USA.
Best ways to contact me this summer, in order, to order or just get in touch:
Phone calls to 512.395.5126
Facebook (Scott page) PMs
Emails to: wingfeathermusic@yahoo.com
If the last two take a few days in July and August, my apologies up front but I’m here for you, I appreciate you, and I WILL get back with you as soon as I check in. Thanks so much and stay cool, in all ways! Much love to you and your circle.
May 31, 2024
Just a quickie for you today, wishing you a great weekend. Cruised the few miles of rural 2-lane over to the “Pop-up Scott shop” this morning to Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” - of which the lyrics are Shakespeare to me. And anything about the road as the answer, not to run from but to SEEK forward when it’s time… yeah, that hits home, the home deep inside we carry, and we carry on in-between the homes we make. Here is the current batch of three pocket basses - two Sports (sold) and a Style B (available). More to come! Thanks so much for being on this adventure. We may never have talked or typed, but I appreciate you! I do. Happy June eve!
~Scott B.
May 21, 2024
Worthington Springs, FL
In off the road, and back at it. It’s headstock day at the "Scott shop" - tracing, cutting, drilling. This is a batch of three mini-basses, two Sports and a Style B. In keeping with a new, slower pace in life after decades of all-in, balls-out, and back-to-the-wall, I’m trying it in little batches of three because it feels fun and flows nicely. The Birdsong workshop in Texas with Jake is rocking, and I’ve rolled on to the land of sun, water, and oranges for a time - taking some freedom to “pop up” a little workshop here, a little workshop there, and see where it all goes. FUN! Still really based out of Texas, but at some point wanting to move further along toward seasons, autumn, and mountain scenery in my next chapter. Hang-time in-between? Making basses (always - want one?), working on some music and books, exploring small towns up the east coast, and likely wintering into ‘25 with my toes in the sand and a bass body in my hand. Maybe even at the same time.By the way, the beautiful carved Texas mesquite Style B bass in process above is AVAILABLE - these are GUITAR scale basses that WORK! Check out the basses page for more info, the current builds are at the bottom. Hope you're having a great day, my friends! Stay tuned, more to come shortly! ~Scott B. (512) 395-5126 wingfeathermusic@yahoo.com
April 26, 2024
Wimberley, Texas
Life is a series of steps behind mentors. Don’t think that changes when you have the occasional role of one yourself; really it just reinforces how important it is to be in some kind of lineage. As the Rastas say, “Each one teach one.” I’m deep in the changing of chapters, with the hand crafting of Birdsong Guitars passed along late last year to the Head Luthier, Jake - who is doing GREAT things in another little workshop in the Texas Hill Country and running with it. I had another brand for years and actually sold that one, and that leaves me with the D’AQUILA guitars. Plus the Scott signature builds I’m working on… which is how this whole run started 25 years ago! But now I craft them with that 10,000 hours of experience they talk about - only several times over. SO excited to go forward with small handfuls of the guitars and basses I’m working on, on THIS side of that whole mountain climbed.
Now, this green face on the old green shop… that came years back from the side wall of another green workshop over closer to the Atlantic where it’s also sunny, there’s plenty of orange juice, and you’re never that far from dipping the ol’ ticklies in the shoreline sands. The man with it is my friend but also mentor, having made his way through life as an artist and kept his soul, mind and body together, unfazed by navigating the way of a craftsman. Hey, that’s the title of my book, buy one won’t you? Anyhow, I told him I’d love one of those sculpted faces for my own green shop wall. He took it off of his and I got that very one. Well my friends, when I leave this workshop, it’s coming with me - and we’re going to the next shop, a temporary space… on the other side of the wall it came off of to begin with! Yes, sharing a shop in halves with my old friend for a little bit to get some work done while I travel, and settle into doing fewer instruments with fewer tools. Still based in Texas, just out exploring since I have the freedom. Short chapters. New dawns. (Remember - this does not refer to the workshop where Birdsong basses are made.)
I’ll be back carving and routing about the middle of the month, I have some SPORT basses in process to finish then and into June. I can’t wait. Pics to come. Thanks for being on the trip with me, in my life it’s springtime in the fall and I’m rolling with that. Feel free to call anytime with questions or Scott Sport and Style B bass orders, or for info or to order up a Birdsong bass - I still manage Birdsong too, from wherever I am. “Scott wanders” posts coming on Facebook soon, of course a full report right here, and all the best to you and your circle. Your wandering woodgnome, ~Scott B. (512) 395-5126 wingfeathermusic@yahoo.com
Scott wanders… Dawn. Sunsets are for the shoreline; sunrises for the road. Conscious decision to press onward and drive into the dawn. If you've never seen the sunrise reflecting off your hood and driven the dark into light, I highly recommend it for whatever ails you. It fixes things you didn't even know weren't right. Catch it where you can and be awakened - but drive, DRIVE INTO it, and be born again.
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Stay tuned!
Listening to: Jim Hall Live! - such a great album of music.
Mostly known from the Birdsong Guitar Co. (which he still manages), and from way back as “Vandweller”, Scott continues to follow the road and the music to where they guide him next. D’AQUILA guitars? Scott’s “Signature” instruments? The SPORT bass? Books & music? The adventure continues and this is where it all will be.
Follow the links to what interests you… we hope it inspires you on your path.
For Birdsong basses and guitars, go to www.birdsongguitars.com
For the books currently in print, look through here for Scott Beckwith
For Scott’s loose writings, look around on this site - much more coming.
Music to listen to and download? That’s coming too. There’s a bunch. It’ll happen.
WHAT’S AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM SCOTT? Instruments, signed books, woodcraft?
COMING SOON.