coastal alt/indie rock

​​Field Notes​​

 

Whenever we make a weekend strip in the Bay Area, I try to bring my Yamaha travel guitar along with me. I can almost always write a song or two, if I do.

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In this case we were spending a weekend at Sanctuary Resort in Marina, California.

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I woke up one morning and started playing my guitar while looking at the sand, ocean, horizon, and blue sky.

Angie called out to me on the patio, "How's the temperature?"

I answered, "There's a hot sun and cool breeze."

She replied, "Thanks."

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I grabbed my iPhone, strummed, and sang:

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there’s a hot sun and cold breeze at the shore today

which one’s gonna win, it’s hard to say 

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Hmmm... not bad.

Then: 

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you’d better wear your layers cause this is a time of change

and you never know when life will turn the page

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We live and spend a lot of time on a coast that is eroding.​

We live on faultiness and volcanoes.

We live in flood basins, fire hungry forests, and dry-ass deserts.

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Yeah...

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we forget the world is still a WILDERNESS

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This song wrote itself in about 15 minutes. I was at the right place, at the right time, with the right tools.

And ready to receive.

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