Lowcountry Guitar and Pen

To buy a pen from me, we'll need to talk. I no longer make pens for inventory, only to order.

Sometimes without realizing it, my life has been following the lyrics of a song. Guitar and Pen is a song by The Who, first published on their Who are You album (feels like it could have been just at home on Pete Townshends's Rough Mix album with Ronnie Lane -- have a listen and thank me later). Once I found that connection between my guitar building and pen making projects, it was inevitable that Lowcountry Guitar & Pen would become a thing.

Here are some excerpts from the lyrics, which chronicle the struggles of an artist "wondering how you'll ever count out there" and realizing the things he can never let go of -- his tools of expression -- his guitar and his pen.

The Who, Guitar and Pen

You're alone, above the street somewhere

Wondering how you'll ever count out there...

You can walk, you can talk, you can fight

But inside you've got something to write

In your hand you hold your only friend

Never spend your guitar or your pen

Your guitar or your pen

...

When you take up a pencil and sharpen it up

When you're kicking the fence and still nothing will budge

...

Then you know in some strange, unexplainable way

You must really have something

Jumping, thumping, fighting, hiding away

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