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as written by Chris Watson
I was born at Travis Air Force Base (Solano County, California) in 1960, lived in the county seat Fairfield until I was thirty-five, then moved to Sonoma County to be with my (then) sweetheart. Things didn't work out.
I rode a ten-speed bicycle all over Solano County in my teen years, and I started playing guitar when I was 18 years old. About three or four years later, I discovered I could combine these activities, and I joyfully bicycled twenty or thirty miles a day almost every day weather permitted for the next fifteen years. I write most of my original songs “on the road,” literally! The following link describes the Creation of The Bicycling Guitarist.
In recent years I haven't played guitar as much as I used to, but I have been growing in so many other ways that my music is now only part of who I am instead of my whole existence as it used to be. Some may say that I am no longer a true musician if that is the case. I disagree. It is not that my music is less than it was, but I am more than I was.
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Part of who I am is from my father.
“Music was a thing of the soul—a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea—a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.” Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects, Josiah Gilbert Holland
