I worked as a musician for about ten years after I finished my BA in English lit, which didn't sound nearly as interesting at the time as playing music. After an enjoyable but wasted youth of bands, solo & studio work, ten thousand nights in clubs & lots of touring, three albums with David Mallett, and a few years as a music journalist and free lance editor, I saw the writing on the wall. I said goodbye to all that & began teaching high school English & started building my project studio.

I've been recording stuff for a while now--people in the community, friends and students of mine. Some of the music up on my page was recorded on an earlier system (a Roland VS-1680), and some was recorded on my current system. As much as anything else, I'm interested in the art & science of making good sounding recordings.

I do original stuff and arrangements of music from a variety of sources. I'm trying to get at an emotional vibe and that elusive buzz with each recording, a core that I hope comes through in the sound of the instruments & the way I play. I've also recorded with some wonderful singers, too.

Most recently I've been playing & recording with a variety of different bands--The Anti-Depressants, The String Band From Hell, and a bunch of local geezers known as The Suck Tones. We like country blues, string-band band music, Hawaiian stuff, Western Swing, jazz and other less-definable sounds. Basically, we'll try anything, and with varying degrees of success, haha! These guys won't win any beauty contests, but at least they show up and sometimes they're in tune.