The Beginning

When I was a teenager in the 1990s I started down the path that's led me to this blog.  I was watching CMT one night while playing video games (I know, I was a pretty popular kid) when a song came on that I hadn't heard before.  I looked to the screen and saw it was "Rodeo Boy" by Fred Eaglesmith.  I had seen the video for "105" before, and I liked the song but not enough to investigate this Eaglesmith character more. The opening guitar riff of "Rodeo Boy" changed that.  I was immediately drawn in by the swampy electric guitar mixed with a sad steel guitar in the background.  With lyrics like "Down at the old cafe, people throwing looks my way, I guess they don't know what to say" I was drawn in further.  I immediately went to Napster and began trying to find whatever songs I could.  Every song I found I loved.  I started down the slippery slope to Fredheadville.

Fred is the foundation that the rest of my musical profile is based upon.  Everything is compared to Fred.  His music is the reason I picked up a used ten dollar guitar and learned to play.  There used to be a link on his website that went to a site that housed the lyrics and chords for a ton of his songs.  The website still exists in the depths of the internet (located here and run by a fellow named Jason Hammond).  I don't really want to duplicate what he's done, I want to just create a forum where I can take a song and say why I like it (and for anyone who happens to read this).

So that's it.  Just me writing about Fred Eaglesmith songs saying why I like them.