Carl Cacho February 13, 2009

30 years ago - Dinosaurs, Zoom, Disney soundtracks * 25 years ago - Baseball, Mork and Mindy, "Remember the Alamo" and "Zombie Jamboree" by The Kingston Trio, "American Pie" * 20 years ago - Washing Dishes, bad horror movies, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, CSN, Joni Mitchell, Strumming guitar in the stairwell in Sylvan- Thanks to JD, Dan Ra and Mary Jane * 15 years ago - Grad School, Open Mics, first gigs in Colorado, Michigan - David Goldfinger, Chris Buhalis, Catie Curtis, Ellis Paul, Bluegrass, First recording. Meet Joe Nolan in Nashville (Thanks Jerry!) who teaches me what a good song is. Become obsessed with trying to write one. * 10 years ago - Boston, Kevin So, Ratsy, Sean Staples, Mary Gauthier, Kris Delmhorst, Jim Radar, Jenny Reynolds, CT Elliot, Play every weekend - Club Passim, Coffeehouses, Johnny D's, any swank, pass the hat joint, win Rose Garden Coffeehouse songwriting contest, finalist at Telluride, attend singer/songwriter retreat at Martha's Vineyard. Kerrville six years running, Greg Brown, Leonard Cohen, Bill Morrisey, Townes Van Zandt * 5 Years ago - release "Spark", top 10 Folk album for 2 months, appear at Falcon Ridge, Sanders Theater with Tom Rush, finalist in Boston Folk Festival Songwriting contest, songs covered by a few peers, Finalist at Kerrville * Present - Married, 2 little girls, still trying to figure out how to write a good song. It's never as easy as it seems. Lucky if I'm out three times in a month. Refuse to believe I'm all washed up.... *

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