{"id":2119,"date":"2011-07-22T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2014-01-27T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T18:51:13","slug":"remembering-chuck-mccabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/remembering-chuck-mccabe\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Chuck McCabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

We lost songwriter Chuck McCabe a year ago. I’m still amazed (well, not really) when I meet someone and discover that our musical three degrees of separation goes right back to Chuck. (Chuck meant a lot to a lot of people. He still does.) I was in the camp of new-ish songwriters who only knew Chuck the last few years he was with us. Chuck was a hell of a songwriter. He loved the craft, and he enjoyed taking people under his wing to discuss it and share what he’d learned. He could also pull a great joke out of the ether.<\/p>\n

\"cd_chicken_dinners\"<\/a>I recently went through my old “\/chuck” email folder and was surprised (well, not really) at how many exchanges he and I had about music, writing, and recording. He taught me a lot. I’m still learning.<\/p>\n

“Not a whole lot of folks have gone through this [recording] process. It’s a strange addiction, and I confess to having the disease. Maybe we need a support group: ‘Hello, my name’s Chuck, and I’m a recordaholic.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"grav\"<\/a>“There will always be one audible thing on your finished CD that makes you visibly cringe whenever you hear it…and no one else will ever even know it’s there.”<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/center>“One horrifying thought I’ve had lately is that I’d have a few bucks in the bank if not for the five CDs that have brought me neither fortune nor fame. Still, the road keeps opening up in front of me, and I’ve made my choices… now to make the best of them. I probably won’t end up poor in the gutter. Most likely in a cheap hotel, maybe…probably in Redding.”<\/em><\/p>\n