Birdsongs for 2024 are rolling…
So excited to see these beautiful Birdsong basses coming together with such care and devotion. Those are very important to me – skills can be taught, but if you have no ethic for detail or sense of what’s sacred, that’s a job for bigger hands to instill. Goede’s a masterful craftsman himself; there’s not much I ever really had to teach! MY hands are thrilled to tell you that, when you get your hands on a Jake-handmade Birdsong Corto2 or Cortobass, or one of the 5-strings, you’re getting the best that these have ever been.
And yeah, they’ve BEEN really good – that’s why we’re still here after 20 years. So yes, that really IS saying something, which also tells you I wouldn’t have things headed in any other direction. Birdsong for 2024 is bringing the highest craftsman skills to the most fine-tuned versions of our classic basses. I am SO excited. To get an order into the spring batch, or if you have questions, call me. I still run this joint! 512-395-5126 anytime. OR scott@birdsongguitars.com, put “INQUIRY” in the subject. Or find me on Facebook and PM me!
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I’m rocking on the handful of Birdsong special orders I’m still working on as my list winds down. A mesquite and turquoise C5, lined fretless and scrolled Bliss6 in Texas pecan, Birdsong Sport mini bass in mahogany, bloodwood and old brewery redwood… and a weirdo Sport with 4 courses of strings tuned a bit differently. Birdsongs in progress
I’m also recording music and writing another book; more on these as they happen more this year. My on-the-side-of-Birdsong life and work can be found at www.sbeckwith.com, including the Sport (and other) mini basses!
Central Texas has been giving us temperatures that read like a lottery ticket – 70 26, 14, 78, 43… What in the cornbread, chicken fried, hickory smoked hell? Actually, it’s not all that surprising. This is what Texas does when it really doesn’t have a winter of its own and those from elsewhere blow through for a visit. We’re all fine, it’s all good, and we’re on it all around this sort of thing. I definitely needed a few days off and really just hibernated in the ol’ housetruck with some great food, good books, and an ancient ES-125 to strum on… with a stack of jazz material to stumble through! Good times.
Thanks so much for checking in - I’ll keep you posted right here! Brethren, stay warm and be cool.
Scott Beckwith, Chief Woodgnome
Listening to: Fleetwood Mac, Mose Allison, The Cars, Lonnie Johnson, Jack DeJohnette, bhajans, and some live stuff from Texas guitar slinger extraordinaire Mason Ruffner