About Me
I picked up my first guitar as a 12 year old boy and I have loved playing music ever since. I love it today as much as I ever have.
I bought my first guitar in 1971. I wasn't very far into my musical journey when I began to write songs. I've always seen songwriting as the most interesting aspect of musical expression.
Eventually I found my way to Nashville in 1980. I played 6 nights a week, 5 hours a night (9pm-2am) for a while. Then, in 1982 my first son was born. I was walking out the door one night with my guitar in hand. I looked back and saw my wife Laura sitting on the sofa holding that baby boy.
In that instant, I felt that “Daddy should be at home with his family at night”. I'm not sure why I had that thought, but I did. So within a few months, I went back to working a “day job”. I continued writing songs and playing my music while raising a beautiful family. This was during a time that churches were starting to add guitar & drums to their services. So I spent the next 40+ years playing at various churches while “gigging” sporadically.
Then after raising 4 kids, I began to perform at bars & restaurants again. I'm thrilled that I am still playing music at this point in life. It brings me a huge amount of joy and I hope you enjoy it too!
This site features a few of my original songs as well as some well known tunes that I cover. I also have plenty of video's posted on YouTube. You can view some of them by clicking on the “Video's” tab above.
I live in Fernandina Beach, Florida (Just north of Jacksonville) and perform around the Jacksonville, FL area either solo/acoustic or with the Amelia Blues Band.