I started writing songs in high school, learning to play the guitar in a variety of styles. I gravitated most towards blues and roots music, a la B.B. King, and Roy Buchanan, as well as pop songwriters like Randy Newman and especially the Beatles. In Mark Kopfler and Richard Thompson, I found artists who seemed to synthesize everything I was trying to accomplish. I attended the University of Denver as a music major, but grew disillusioned with the program offered at the time I attended, thinking that while it was thorough in offering everything a fledgling musician could hope for in terms of instruction in harmony, theory and performance, that it was stodgy and unrelated to forging a music career in the real world. Upon finishing my coursework, I logged time in a diverse number of bands, ranging from country/western swing to rock, pop, funk and fusion and blues. Tiring of the non-musical aspects of live performance, I built a small recording studio, and began concentrating more exclusively on composition, writing underscoring for various small theater and film projects. Along the way, I continued writing pop songs, and am now ready to unleash them on an unsuspecting world. I'm more interested in writing songs for others to cover than in finding a record contract for myself. I write in a variety of styles, and am on the lookout for parties looking for fresh material.