Recording music for upcoming EP, Selected Works of Fernando Sor. This Study # 20 is the first single from the release.
Born in Virginia, raised in Maryland; survivor of an alcoholic family; graduated High School and Union Carpenters Apprenticeship; a student of Algebra, a student of Life, a brown belt Samurai Chess Player; gave up clarinet in 2nd grade because he was too young to understand; gave up French class 5 years later because he could not speak the language; turned down Ms. Maria Blautzig for the Sadie Hawkins Dance because she had turned down his request earlier in the school year; walked out of typing class on day one, hell HOUR one, because he could not handle the stress of it; walked out of Oklahoma State University because he really needed help at that point and did not know how to ask for it, so ‘tear it all down and blow it up’ seemed to be the only way to find any; experienced the deepest loneliness of his entire life to date out on that highway, with no direction anywhere. He has worked as a ditch digger, a grass cutter, a TV Guide door to door salesman; he has been a farm worker, carpenters’ helper, apprentice, a Journeyman carpenter in Local 132, a Home Improvement contractor and a Facilities Maintenance Engineer. He has passed up more opportunities than cars on a freight train; he has hitchhiked, hobo’ed and walked across tens of thousands of miles of America’s roadways, and a few in Canada, for good measure.
It would all be for nought but for a chance encounter one snowy January night in 1993, when he met and eventually married the astonishing, beguiling, and sumptuous Ms. Juliana; this union subsequently created the talented, smart, bubbly, and eye-catching Ms. Sophia, she of the musical pipes.
Mr. Higgins first picked up the guitar at age 23, the harmonica at 57, and wrote his first book at age 5, or 6. It shall remain forever unpublished, as the only handwritten master of it is lost to the dustbin of history.
