I grew up in Southern California during the 1960's in the LA / San Bernadino / Riverside area.  It was a hotbed of ideas and revolutionary in music.  All kinds of music, from Surf Music to the Doors to all the Bay Area and British Bands, filtered in through SoCal.  In my teens I loved to hang out in the Bay Area.  From there I moved on to other adventures and spent about 20 years in Texas and Louisiana - and they certainly had their way with me. 

 

Over the years music has evolved so much, that when I finally got back around to the Blues, I put on Big Brother and the Holding Company "Cheap Thrills;" Savoy Brown; and Johnny Winters - and I realized that this stuff has been embedded in me all these years.  After the Punk and New Wave and L.A. Rock of the '90's, what really drew me back into the Blues was hearing the music of Chris Whitley and Joe Bonamassa.  From there, it didn't take long before I was listening to the old Greats - Muddy, Johnny Winters, Lonnie Brooks, and the endless chain of old Blues players that came before.  As a guitar player myself, I've always had this curse that I was never able to copy any of my favorite players verbatim.  No matter how I tried, it always came out different.  I guess it always came out "me." 

 

Hopefully you'll hear all these influences from my life in my writings.  I'm a very "album-oriented" person from my youth, and I still like to put together a body of work in an album concept.  I enjoy both listening to and playing a huge diversity of music, so when I put a group of songs together as an album, I include a lot of different grooves.    I hope you like it.