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Wino in the Rhino

Its a wonderful life!

A story to share

If it hadn't been for My sister Teresa McCoy Scambler getting me my first KISS record or my best friend growing up getting a drumset or sitting around listening to my Dad play guitar. This Song would have never been born and a little boy would have might never grown up to be a firefighter.

Many things led me to my career in Music I remember having saved up my allowance and givin...g it to my sister who was going to Sears. I gave her my money and asked her to get a rock and roll record. She came back that night with KISS Originals which I still have. I was hooked The music exploded out of my little realistic record player into my head. Shortly after my best friend growing up who lived 2 doors down Rob Lidstone got a drumset from his Mom Pat Lidstone. My career in music was now sealed because now I had to get a guitar which my Mom Carol McCoy and Dad bought me. A 35 dollar guitar from Woolco call a Kay guitar. Growing up from as long as I remember I would listen to my Dad play guitar and thought it was so cool and after I got my guitar I started lessons and my Guitar teacher Bev Young kept me interested in learning.

Where am I going with this may you ask?

That all these people and many more helped a song be born from me that helped a little boy decide that when he grows up to be a fire fighter. I found out a little while back that fellow came to watch me play at Pancho and Lefty's in Surrey one night. He bought a CD that had a song on it that I wrote called Mama's Lillte Boy a song about a fire fighter. He took the CD home a his son heard it. After hearing the song several times over he decided that he wanted to be a firefighter. Well that boy is now in his 20's and he is a firefighter in Edmonton fighting fires and saving lives. Well that made me feel great! I thought though if all those people that helped me in my direction towards music were not there than this song would have never been written and who knows that boy would not have become a firefighter. So to everyone who has supported me in my music Thank You! Help support someone in their dream its amazing what can happen. You just never know!

As a songwriter I have had many of influences in my life from the songwriter catagory the list is many. Bob Seger, Gordon Lightfoot, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Billy Joe Shaver, Neil Diamond, Jeffery Steele, John Prine and so many more. The one that stands above the all is Steve Earle. To paint a picture with words like Steve Earle can is not only a gift but bordline genuis.
here is just a piece of his work from Tom Ames Prayer

Well they sent the preacher down to my cell
He said the Lord is your only hope
He's the only friend that you gonna have
When you hit the end of Parker's rope

Well I guess he coulda' kept on preachin' 'till Christmas
but he turned his back on me
I put a home made blade to that golden throat
and asked the deputy for the key

Steven Spielberg could not even paint this on film they way Steve Earle has wrote this.
I remember I saw Steve in Victoria BC Canada in 1989 at his Copperhead Road tour. He played for 3 hours without a break and had everyone in the palm of his hand. A dream of mine would be to sit down a write a song with him. Though I am pretty sure I would just sit there with blank look on my face like when the beatles met elvis.
For any young song writers out there who are looking to learn more about songwriting go buy a Steve CD or download and just sit and listen to his lyrics. If they don't paint a picture in your brain then you don't have one.
There are others that come a close second to Steve and that is Billy Joe Shaver and Bob Seger. Hell they all are a close second
Ken McCoy
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Here are some upcoming shows
April 21 to 24 Roosters Pitt Meadows BC
April 30 Branding Iron Pub Armstrong BC
May 1 Trail Rodeo Trail BC
May 6 to 8 Ranchman's Calgary AB
May 20 to 23 Cloverdale Rodeo Cloverdale BC
May 29 Shannon Hall Dance Cloverdale BC
June 9 to 12 Roosters Pitt Meadows BC
June 17 to 19 Cactus Annies Merritt BC
July 3, 4 Williams Lake Stampede Williams Lake BC
July 6 to 11 Ranchman's Calgary AB
July 12 to 15 Ranchman's Calgary AB
July 17 Blue Mountain Festival Coquitlam BC
July 24 BC Summer Games Langley BC

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