After I permanently moved to Austin, Texas, (1993)....it was not long that I found myself walking down Sixth Street near Joe's Generic Bar. This was a place where any decent musician could get free exposure while playing for tips. Guy Forsythe found a quick easy home there, that vaulted him into parochial stardom as one of Austin's leading points of light and tunes.
Guys like "Guy Forsythe" made Austin...the greatest city in America during the nineties. Now, it's a part of Los Angeles, and nobody knows nobody when it used to be something like, "...Everyone is Somebody in Austin, Texas, where we liked to keep Austin weird...".
I remember reminding Guy one day at a coffee shop...just how good and energetic his first early shows at Joe's were....but....he just smirked hopeing those shows were quickly forgotten? Apparently, he had moved on from primitive formats and early attempts at reaching for cosmic significance?
Guy plays alone and forms groups...and stayed along time with The Asylum Street Spankers.
You can see Guy...in this video...at the SUNRISE CEREMONY held every morning at The Kerrville Folk Festival (2011)....which is comparable to a mini, hippie, Texas Woodstock.
Guy is alot of things...but mostly...a talented singer, songwriter, and another obscure superstar who hasn't reached the levels of destructive fame, that usually ruins good hearted souls.
Thank God for graceful small failures in avoidance of destructive special treatment sometimes identified as "fame" or "Transference".
Worth your time...during the Moab, Utah or Wyoming winter months....to keep the idea that "you can survive the winter blues" by searching and studying Guy Forsthe's musial history and discography.
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