Paul Simon Bassist Appears On Windle’s 1st Album
February 22, 2017 at 8:38 p.m.
Paul Simon Bassist Appears On Windle’s 1st Album
By David [email protected]
He also appears as the bassist on 2011 Wawasee High School graduate Garland Windle’s self-titled first album, released in fall 2016.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Windle, 24, said he started writing music sometime between his late high school and early college days. His songs were about finding one’s self, adolescence, society’s expectations and following one’s dreams.
“I had these song ideas and I was visiting Sweetwater one day, which was where I made the album, in Fort Wayne. And I just started talking to one of the employees about if they make CDs there, how do you do that. And they had me come in and talk to a couple of the producers,” Windle stated.
He went in and played for them.
“I guess they liked it because they agreed to do the CD,” Windle said.
Mark Hornsby produced the 10-song CD. Seven songs are Windle originals and three are covers.
“Something special about this CD though is that — I hope Mark liked it because he called his buddy, Bakithi Kumalo ... and Bakithi is Paul Simon’s bass player, so he got to play on the album, which is really cool and a good selling point for me as a beginning artist. So I got really lucky with that and got to meet him. To hear him play my music was really, really cool,” Windle said.
Kumalo mentioned that he liked some of Windle’s songs.
Windle’s venture into music began when his mom forced him to take lessons in middle school.
“I didn’t really like it,” he said. “I liked music, but I was a little kid and didn’t really want to take lessons, so I quit doing that after a few months, but I learned my basic open chords and some simple guitar riffs.
In high school, Windle got back into music. He took lessons in Goshen from Tim Hostetler, who graduated from the University of California Berkeley School of Music.
“He taught me music theory and got me going a little better on playing,” Windle said.
He played mostly for his own passion and enjoyment. He also participated in sports, but music was something he could enjoy on his own.
“When it really took off and I knew I wanted to actually do something in music was senior year in the talent show. I played a Dave Matthews song, ‘Crash Into Me.’ Then I saw the crowd cheering so much and that feeling of being on stage and feeling that. After that it was like, ‘This is cool. I want to do this,’” he recalled.
After graduating from Wawasee he wanted to get a degree, so he studied law and public affairs at Indiana University.
Windle said he has some modern musical influences — Norah Jones, John Mayer, Ray Lamontagne, Paulo Nutini — and then some older musicians who have influenced him — The Band, Van Morrison, The Grateful Dead. And while he has a large assortment of influences, he said his own musical style is unique.
“I do think it is a little bit different. Most musicians probably want to go for something that isn’t like everything else,” he said.
“I think what makes my songs a little bit different is, when I’m writing, I usually start with something that really hooks me right away. I don’t just start and say I’m going to write a song with these people or this is what I’m going to do. I figure out a little riff or a little hook that just kind of draws you in and makes you want to hear it over and over. Once I find that, I use that to kind of build the rest of the song and fill out the chords, or whatever I need. ... So one of my verses might be one genre, and then you get to the chorus and it kind of almost could switch genres and be a little bit of something else.”
Windle plays his music at bars, restaurants and anywhere else he can. He sells his CD wherever he’s playing, but it’s also available at cdbaby.com/cd/garlandwindle. He will play at Goshen’s First Friday in March.
He has a Facebook page at facebook.com/garlandwindlemusic and YouTube channel at youtube.com/
user/garlandwindle to plug his budding music career and album.
“I want to take it as far as I can go with it. Even if it doesn’t ever amount to anything, where I’m a big star and there’s a lot of people listening, even if it’s just something where I can go out on a Friday night and play or whatever, that’s still nice. That’s still a great thing,” he said.
Anyone interested in contacting Windle for booking or other purposes may email him at [email protected].
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He also appears as the bassist on 2011 Wawasee High School graduate Garland Windle’s self-titled first album, released in fall 2016.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Windle, 24, said he started writing music sometime between his late high school and early college days. His songs were about finding one’s self, adolescence, society’s expectations and following one’s dreams.
“I had these song ideas and I was visiting Sweetwater one day, which was where I made the album, in Fort Wayne. And I just started talking to one of the employees about if they make CDs there, how do you do that. And they had me come in and talk to a couple of the producers,” Windle stated.
He went in and played for them.
“I guess they liked it because they agreed to do the CD,” Windle said.
Mark Hornsby produced the 10-song CD. Seven songs are Windle originals and three are covers.
“Something special about this CD though is that — I hope Mark liked it because he called his buddy, Bakithi Kumalo ... and Bakithi is Paul Simon’s bass player, so he got to play on the album, which is really cool and a good selling point for me as a beginning artist. So I got really lucky with that and got to meet him. To hear him play my music was really, really cool,” Windle said.
Kumalo mentioned that he liked some of Windle’s songs.
Windle’s venture into music began when his mom forced him to take lessons in middle school.
“I didn’t really like it,” he said. “I liked music, but I was a little kid and didn’t really want to take lessons, so I quit doing that after a few months, but I learned my basic open chords and some simple guitar riffs.
In high school, Windle got back into music. He took lessons in Goshen from Tim Hostetler, who graduated from the University of California Berkeley School of Music.
“He taught me music theory and got me going a little better on playing,” Windle said.
He played mostly for his own passion and enjoyment. He also participated in sports, but music was something he could enjoy on his own.
“When it really took off and I knew I wanted to actually do something in music was senior year in the talent show. I played a Dave Matthews song, ‘Crash Into Me.’ Then I saw the crowd cheering so much and that feeling of being on stage and feeling that. After that it was like, ‘This is cool. I want to do this,’” he recalled.
After graduating from Wawasee he wanted to get a degree, so he studied law and public affairs at Indiana University.
Windle said he has some modern musical influences — Norah Jones, John Mayer, Ray Lamontagne, Paulo Nutini — and then some older musicians who have influenced him — The Band, Van Morrison, The Grateful Dead. And while he has a large assortment of influences, he said his own musical style is unique.
“I do think it is a little bit different. Most musicians probably want to go for something that isn’t like everything else,” he said.
“I think what makes my songs a little bit different is, when I’m writing, I usually start with something that really hooks me right away. I don’t just start and say I’m going to write a song with these people or this is what I’m going to do. I figure out a little riff or a little hook that just kind of draws you in and makes you want to hear it over and over. Once I find that, I use that to kind of build the rest of the song and fill out the chords, or whatever I need. ... So one of my verses might be one genre, and then you get to the chorus and it kind of almost could switch genres and be a little bit of something else.”
Windle plays his music at bars, restaurants and anywhere else he can. He sells his CD wherever he’s playing, but it’s also available at cdbaby.com/cd/garlandwindle. He will play at Goshen’s First Friday in March.
He has a Facebook page at facebook.com/garlandwindlemusic and YouTube channel at youtube.com/
user/garlandwindle to plug his budding music career and album.
“I want to take it as far as I can go with it. Even if it doesn’t ever amount to anything, where I’m a big star and there’s a lot of people listening, even if it’s just something where I can go out on a Friday night and play or whatever, that’s still nice. That’s still a great thing,” he said.
Anyone interested in contacting Windle for booking or other purposes may email him at [email protected].
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