The 2009 debut of my first album Under The Sun was widely acclaimed with two songs featured in the first season of HBO’s “True Blood.” A Grammy Entrant nomination for Best Contemporary Blues album and a recording contract with Chicago’s Blue Skunk Records.

Next I had an opportunity to do an acting gig starring in an indie movie “I’m Good at Freaky”.  I portrayed record producer Phil Spector on the night of the murder of Lana Clarkson. I tried to approach the role with a mindset of “here is a man who is on top of the world, has done it all. Rich, powerful, a legend. 
what has it brought him? Loneliness, paranoia and insanity.  The top is nothing more than the bottom turned upside down.”

In 2011 I teamed up with Lone Justice alumni Marvin Etzioni and we created Medicine. I was disillusioned with the big studio production of “Under the Sun” and wanted to do something simple, It turned out to be a guitar & drums duo with Don Heffington (Lucinda Williams). Coincidently it was being recorded shortly after completing filming on “I’m Good at Freaky” so I recorded a version of the Ronettes/Phil Spector classic“Be My Baby” with the hope it would be used for the film.  As it turned out we couldn’t get permission to use it but we could release it on a record. I think this recording stands as one of the best things I have done.  

2013 - 2016 was a lot of live performing with my band “The Chosen”
We toured extensively through the Western United States, Texas, Canada and Hawaii. Some shows were really good. Some not so much.

Train, recorded in 2015, is where we brought much of the music that I had been playing live into the studio. We made a record and called it Train. I don’t think it really captured the live performances but there are some good songs. Some of which, 10 years later, are still worth a listen.

2017 I recorded Against the Current. I had been swimming in Hawaii. Someone on the beach had been watching and commented  that I had been swimming again the ocean current (which is far more demanding than swimming with the current). I reflected on his observation and thought it a comment on how I have lived my life: against the current. There are some great musicians on this record including Steve Trovato and Doug Lunn who have both had a major influence on my life. This is the first time I took an active interest in the craft of making a record beyond being a musician/singer.

Following the release of Against the Current, my life swerved off the rails. I dealt with the death of my mom, my brother, the end of a longish term love relationship and generally everything falling apart.

Then came Covid and lock down.This was a period of renewed creativity for me. After all you couldn’t go any where and there was nothing to do except stay home with dire news coming from all directions. I reacted by undertaking a serious study of classical guitar.
Getting my ears and hands into a couple centuries of great music was revelatory. It filled in many of the gaps from my lack of formal musical training snd allowed me to re approach music from a different place.

The NO. 5 record has my battle against the world wide pandemic. I couldn’t accept a world where music could not be made. So many great musicians were unemployed and idle so I endeavored to make something good out of the situation.  Jimmy Paxon (Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks)  a long lost friend from another life appeared out of the ether and pulled together some rabbits out of his inexhaustible musician hat. Everybody from Nashville, to Austin, to L.A. and all point in between recorded their parts from remote sequestered home studios. It all got put together in L.A. at Palomino Studios in L.A. The world may stop but the music never does.

2022 Covid is winding down and live music is being played again. Small venues, small audiences brave enough to venture back into an uncertain world. Here is where I went back to some of my earliest days as a street singer on the Venice Boardwalk singing and playing acoustic guitar. I did a series of solo shows from California to Idaho. I recorded a couple of these shows and put out a vinyl LP “The Return of the Folk Singer”. This got a Grammy Entrant Nomination for best folk album of 2024.

2026 will see the release of 7 Singles. The concept of an album seems removed from the way people listen to music these days. Our attention span is short and divided between so many media sources (and what ever is left in real life). Two - five minutes seems about the maximum amount of time we can devote to any one task.  Rock-n-roll has come full circle. Its back to the 50’s when the single was the thing. Lets go…