That's my name though I often go by "Cal"

I play live with my acoustic trio Stumblweed. I like it as long as it's not too often. The best moment was when we played and were recorded live at The P&G Speakeasy Cafe in Duvall, Washington. The live CD is entitled Still Not Satisfied
I also have a band called The Stillwater Hillbillies who recently released the CD BIGFOOT

It makes more music available to more people.

Maybe but that would depend on the details.

Biography, Well, sort of.

Music can't get enough of me!

I've tried to ignore music. Sometimes successfully. For a while, that is. However, despite all the periodic attempts to lose myself in other concerns, music always seems to find me. When it does, nothing else matters much. Once I got hooked on songwriting there was no turning back. So I might as well let y'all hear some of those songs. That's why I'm here....
My life began sometime in the 60's when one afternoon an older kid in the neighborhood asked me if I liked the Beatles. I didn't know what he was talking about. Half an hour later I did. The Beatles changed me forever.
Through years of dinking around playing guitar and singing with friends and listening to popular tunes, music still wasn't really something I did but, rather, something I simply consumed, along with alcohol and other stuff. Then, along came Punk Rock and it was OK for moderately talented folks like myself to play music.

Later on, while I was in College, my friend Jim played a 4-track home recorded version of Simon & Garfunkel's "Cecilia" for me with completely different words and re-titled "Sensamelia." Although I had occasionally composed pretty melodies on the piano, I had not actually written any songs.

Jim's tune inspired me to start putting words to my melodies. So I began writing songs. I got myself a Tascam 4-Track and a keyboard with cheap voices plus a tinny drum sound and started composing reggae tunes, psychedelic stuff and love songs. I was overly optimistic and, of course, Jim thought I was a genius so I sent a bunch of tunes out to some music publishers. My songs didn't elicit any great response and I got busy doing other things after College. I still kept writing without ambition. My songwriting was slowly getting better, more natural.

At some point I figured the only way to really know if my songs were any "good" would be to play them for strangers and watch the response. I began to perform my songs at a "songwriters open mic" and get feedback on my work from other writers and their friends. From there I went on to hosting various open mikes in bars and cafes and later to play gigs with different people. I have self-produced several CDs as a solo artist and for Stumblweed. The best example of my productions is probably Honky Tonk Funk. I also got a couple of my songs on a compilation CD with various artists. I haven't made much money from songwriting, performing and recording but it's been lots of fun, especially being a songwriter. And as long as it's fun, I'll keep doing it.

The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Neil Young and Peter Gabriel's Genesis, Pink Floyd, Allman Brothers, Luciano Pavarotti, Lynyrd Skynyrd, James Taylor, Roxy Music, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Don Walser, Deep Purple, John Prine, Bob Marley, The Ramones, Jimmy Swaggart, Frank Zappa, Muddy Waters, Ricky Scaggs, David Bowie, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, Prince and Burl Ives, just to name a few.

The Snoqualmie Valley in Washington state where I live.

Old dell PC 450MHz and an old version of cooledit (before it was bought by adobe) and a roland digital 8-track and Dr machine drum, AT and Sure microphones; Washburn acoustic, Epiphone and Kramer electric guitars; yamahas sy77 keyboard; Pearl drum set; Hurricane electric bass.