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The Windmill by Michael Beauchamp-Cohen & Brian Koenigsknecht

Michael Beauchamp-Cohen and Brian Koegnigsknecht, long-time friends and songwriters who have always loved making and writing music together.

Michael Beauchamp-Cohen is a Michigan-bred songwriter, musician, and performer best known for his decade-plus collaboration with Laurel Premo in the roots duo Red Tail Ring. In both RTR and as a solo artist, Beauchamp-Cohen writes lyrically dense, unconventional folk songs that explore personal subjects made universal through the process of their transmission.

"Brian Koenigsknecht is a Michigan treasure, that rare breed of singer-songwriter who can make you feel every human emotion" - John Sinkevics, Local Spins

[Brian Koenigsknecht is] ". . . the rare kind of artist that writes and sings with intimate, unabashed sweetness and stirring emotional depth." - Tim Kolleth, Alligator Records

Tracklist
1.Michael Beauchamp-Cohen & Brian Koenigsknecht - The Windmill3:20
Lyrics

The Windmill

These dark days I wear a blank disguise
But it all still hurts like hell
With all the rain and tears I’ve cried
It’s no trouble to fill up the well

But what’s the use in an old broken windmill
That no longer frees water from the ground
I feel everything
But no longer sing
Even when the wind comes around

My glory days are somewhere framed
In a black and white photograph
There are fragments of me
Buried so deeply
And the seasons sing my epitaph

So what good is an old faded photograph
Our lives framed in shadows and lines
I can’t break through the frame to you
Even with my hot hands on the glass

I feel everything but no longer sing
Even when the wind comes around

I have loved a string of scattered things
Odds and ends that won’t reform
Around the yard lie broken wings
Of a wheel that just helps me mourn

Credits
released March 29, 2020
Michael Beauchamp-Cohen - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Brian Koenigsknecht - Vocals & Acoustic Guitar

Recorded live and Produced at La Luna Recording and Sound by Ian Gorman in Kalamazoo, Michigan
LicenseAll rights reserved.
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Brian Koenigknecht is a Michigan treasure, that rare breed of singer-songwriter who can make you feel every human emotion – every tear, every smile – so intensely that you feel he’s written his songs about you. – John Sinkevics, LocalSpins.com