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Artist
Kirby Heyborne
12+ albums
soulfulfolkacousticsinger-songwriterSimon and Garfunkel
about
"I started playing the guitar when I was 15. My friends and I had just discovered the Beatles the year before and were figuring out “Let it Be” on the piano. Since there were 3 of us, only one could play the piano at a time. If we were to play together, someone had to bring in a new instrument. I found an old guitar at my house and played around with it. I went to a music store to buy a “How-to” book and found a Beatles songbook. It had all their songs with the chord charts and fingerings above the lyrics. I learned to play guitar (and every song) from that book. After being introduced to the guitar by the Beatles, I searched for new and challenging songs. I learned a lot of standards. Yes, even “Stairway to Heaven.” After 3 months of learning new chords and other people's songs, I decided to start writing my own. By the end of my 9th grade year, I was performing my original songs, along with plenty of Beatles covers, at my friend Tyler Bastian's house. We would do shows in his greenhouse in Draper, Utah. I found an old home video of one of the concerts, and I was surprised that so many people came. When I was a sophomore, I recorded a short album called “Pennies for the Player” with a 4-track mixer, a microphone hanging from a ceiling fan in this kid's bedroom, and another microphone taped to my guitar. We made 50 copies and sold them all. That year, I kept writing new songs and performing at Tyler's. In the fall of 1993, I was an avid follower of the band “Ali Ali Oxe
