My Story......

I started playing guitar at age 12 but it wasn't until my senior year of college that I wound up in a band. My first set ever included American Girl, Can't Always Get What You Want and Feel Like Making Love. We played for about an hour until the cops decided things were too loud. After school, I played in a typical cover band (never again do I want to play Jimmy Buffet songs) and then ended up in Right Foot Yellow. RFY was together for about 6 years until we went our separate ways in June 2001 (I should mention that these guys are still good friends; its only the band that ended).

Since then, I've done various things including accompanying a vocalist/harmonica player, hitting open mics, sitting in with a blues band, and working with several vocalists. For the past two and a half years, I played second guitar with Tim King & the Righteous Sinners. TKRS is a great time but 351 Deluxe is a way that I will hopefully get to do things that I didn't get to do with TKRS.

Over the years I've done classic rock (Stones, Van Morrison, Tom Petty, Motown), folk/pop/country (Indigo Girls, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nancy Griffith, Shania Twain), modern/alt rock (Live, Hole, Matthew Sweet, Soup Dragons, Alice in Chains), alt-country (Wilco, Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash), blues (Willie Dixon, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bo Didley, Sonny Boy Williamson), with lots of other stuff thrown in here and there.

I'm a good, solid guitarist, comfortable with both acoustic and electric. I tend to think of myself as more of a rhythm player but I can also pull off some lead chops in a sparse, blues meets country meets old-time rock style. I've just never had any desire to stand out in front and be a rock-n-roll guitar god.

My main setup varies between a couple Telecasters, Hamer Special (P-90s), and a late '60s Yamaha hollowbody played through old Fender-style amps. I also have a Gibson acoustic and can fake my way around a mandolin and a bass.

I can and do sing although there is no way in hell you'd ever want me to front a band all night long. You can listen to some very rough Demos.

I have a real job and am not looking to "make it big" in the music biz. But I do want to get out, play some good music with cool people, and draw some butts off the bar stools and onto the dance floor. I don't see much correlation between age and playing fun music, but in case you are interested, I recently turned 40.