I began playing guitar on my 16th birthday, when my mother gave me one as a present. I had promised to learn to play, having signed up for a beginner guitar class at high school. I only took the class in order to avoid serious learning.

I was a loner . . . we moved around a lot. The guitar became my best companion, and from the start I made up my own compositions.

I soon migrated to the electric guitar. I was in a few original rock bands; yet a love for acoustic guitar music remained, inadvertently introduced to me by a sister listening to her CSN and Neil Young records...before I even learned how to play.

I never became known on the music circuit. The bands I joined rarely went beyond their local playing area. I never met or knew anyone famous. I did however play in a band with Robert Sweet – best known for being the drummer of Stryper. A few years later came the crush of fleeting fame, the band broke up and I left that scene altogether.

Then I spent three years in a Worship group. It’s here I learned music can be a healing affect in the heart, body and mind. I would not trade this experience for anything.

A few years later I dropped off the musical landscape. In fifteen years of being a musician/songwriter I had failed to become “someone”. I was disappointed. I sold all my performing and recording gear, keeping only one acoustic guitar.

The 90’s found me managing a truly great rock band, Sunday Silents. The drummer, a friend from church, was in the band and invited me to a gig. I told them they should get a manager . . . they chose me! Later I spent five years as lead guitarist in my most favorite band to have ever been in, Purple Mountain Matinee. The decade ended with me leaving PMM and once again disappearing from the musical landscape.

In 2004 I began exploring alternate tunings on the guitar after having listened to – over and over again – the Guitar Passion album by Dallas Gordon. This one album inspired a return to playing, composing and recording my own music. And I found a more proper place and expression in being an instrumentalist. In 2006 I recorded my first album, ‘Clearly‘, under my own name...thirty-two years after first learning how to play the guitar.

At 50 years of age I determined music would have a more prominent place in my life.

I do not have a claim-to-fame, no accolades to boast of, and don’t know that I ever will. I’m just a “normal joe” like most folks, who happens to play and compose guitar instrumental music . . . which I hope will enable you to escape the noise and enjoy some quiet moments.

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