I was born into a family that knew what a creative idea and a little bit of enthusiasm and effort could produce. Childhood road trip music consisted of The Beach Boys and Bob Marley. I figured out how to play the guitar and piano tinkering around the house in my underwear.I also learned how to make biscuits and gravy in my underwear. I have been influenced by every interaction I have experienced in my life. As a high-schooler I was in a band called Free Will that played YYZ by Rush and Cult of Personality by Living Colour.

When I was eighteen I met a guy named Ken Glidewell that showed me the ropes of the music business and put me in his band Big In Iowa. At twenty I was playing jazz piano in the Miami University Jazz Band. At twenty-four I was touring Europe and The Middle East with No Love Lost performing for U.S. troops. At twenty-five I was in a Radiohead cover band called ERIS. Also at twenty-five I was in the roots-rock outfit called Holden Zoe and somehow graduated college. Twenty-six saw me move to Chicago and I wound up playing bass with Chicago's Gypsy Kings, Bandoleros and keyboard with Swedish rocker Jamie Meyer. At twenty-eight I was in the Caribbean with Mark Becknell drinking rum, eating lobster, crashing beach bars with impromptu performances and sometimes waking up on those very same beaches.

At thirty I worked at an orphanage, played my first punk rock show and then went on to tour with my brother Troy in Hamilton, Ohio's saviors of hardcore punk rock, Eighty Sixed and playing bass with one of the grandfathers of hardcore punk in the drunkest loudest punk band in the land , Gang Green. In 2008 I was nominated for a Cincinnati Entertainment Award for singer/songwriter of the year. Now I'm moving forward while gingerly and most delicately tip-toeing with a butcher's force with my guitar and a bucket list of original songs. I'm self releasing my first collection of songs this year. I hope you enjoy Wasted Midwestern Town Blues.