December 23, 2009: We Are The Lucky Ones

As the intro for the BarMac Sisters show said so well, we are the lucky ones. Lucky to be able to hang with friends, create music and just play what inspires us.

Hard to believe it was six years ago that Mike and Doug, Walnut Ridge High School classmates and 60’s survivors, re-connected at Reynoldsburg’s legendary (and now gone) Pour House Cafe and decided to get together once again to ‘just jam’. No plan. Just jam. Before long, bassman John and drummer, Bad Bob, jumped in and suddenly we had a band. We still weren’t sure where we were going, but we instinctively knew that, wherever this passion led us, it would be to a good place. We learned some covers, played a couple of patio gigs and somewhere along the way realized that creating our own material would be the ultimate way to go. After all, isn’t the whole point of music to just express yourself?

Starting with Mike’s “Bad, Bad Man”, the epiphany occurred: we instantly knew that we could do this and do it well and, most importantly, do it our own way. The culmination of the vision was 2009’s release of the self-produced Windrush CD – 16 original songs, professionally mastered and packaged. Our CD could be found on Amazon, iTunes, AMG, CDBaby and Soundclick, right alongside all the major artists of the day. And on Soundclick, we even had three songs hit #1 on the charts. And a huge turnout at the CD release party at Gatsby’s during the summer of 2009 was icing on the cake.

Who could have known six years ago that we would accomplish so much?

So now we are looking at 2010. The flame is still lit. And the journey continues. We’re still writing and recording new material, with another CD certainly in our future.

We are truly the lucky ones.