When you're in the good times

"It's good to know you're in the good times when you're in the good times." That's roughly a phrase I heard and said during the festival this year. Turns out it resembles a quote from The Office: "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."

There is at least one way, and I'm decent at it. I performed a festival show two weeks ago with my current band called Western Red Cedar. The band is an attempt to weave together my whole musical life, but to date we've mainly played other people's music. And you see, I've known I was in the good times at many points through the years of discovering the music we performed two weeks ago. Similar to how I know I'm in them today.

That doesn't mean it's been easy, rather if not for this particular feeling, I would've given up a long time ago. But I haven't given up, and here's the representative story of all 14 pieces we played at the festival.