In his own words:

I am a song writer, singer and guitarist who’s been around the block more than a time or two or three. I grew up in the folk tradition (Paxton, Dylan, Ochs, Seeger, Prine, Goodman) and played and sang for my own enjoyment as often as I could. Over the past 20 years I emerged from the cellar and began performing with the Lake County (Il) Folk Club and in Woodstock, Il and have most recently been very active as a performer and a Board member of Artichoke Community Music in Portland, OR. Here in the mid-west, I’ve had the fortune over the years to know and become friends with Art Thieme, Jethro Burns, Don Stiernberg. I’ve opened concerts for Michael P. Smith and Christine Lavin.

If pressed to describe my songwriting, I’d conjure up something like “lyrics that ramble through fanciful ideas, forgotten lanes, footpaths and highways of daily life, memories, dreams and wishes. I follow my muse where it goes and I sing about the quirkiness of relationships, daily work, and the twists and turns of life. I have written about cell phones, cowboys, thunderstorms, and songwriting; lying, forgetting, obsessing, waiting, wandering and forgiving. My songs are to the point (no 10-minute true confessions) and have melodic roots in folk, swing, jazz, blues and even classical music.” In other words, my music doesn’t fit into a single bin, even in a used record store. But I like it, and I think you will, too.