Every Moment Has A Song

And here is the actual TV performance that first drew my attention to the man. This was during my four or five year phase of actually listening to popular country on the radio and watching The Nashville Network.
What impressed me about Wilcox here, in addition to the song’s lyric, was the musicianship he displayed–making eye contact with the audience while playing complex guitar lines throughout the song. This was not standard TNN fare.
So I went looking for his album (on cassette, my format of choice for most of the 80’s, sorry to say). But by the time I made it to the shop, I’d forgotten his name! Undaunted, I began browsing through the tapes, thinking I just might get lucky and recognize the guy’s name if his cassette happened to be there. Of course, looking alphabetically, it took a while to get to Wilcox, but I did indeed recognize his name. And the album’s title was completely appropriate: How Did You Find Me Here.
When I finally got a chance to see him live his guitar playing blew me away even more. I’d never seen a guitarist change tunings nearly every song or two, or use multiple capos. (Wilcox shaved down parts of his capos so they only touched certain strings. On a given song he’d use as many as three of them.)
David Wilcox is worth a listen if you prefer substance to gimmick–if you like a well-turned metaphor and a life lesson in a lyric.