Born into a religious family, music has always been a part of my life. Most fundamentally, the hymns that we heard and sang (at least) twice a week. Beyond that, I started the piano about the same time I started kindergarten. This was followed by alto saxophone in fifth grade, electric guitar and bassoon in eighth grade, electric bass in ninth grade, and some minor dabbling in oboe in twelfth grade. It wasn’t until the summer after my freshman year of college that I finally dipped into acoustic guitar and found the music I loved best. Which, oddly enough, was perhaps the closest to the music that I heard as a child.

Growing up we had western albums, bluegrass albums, folk albums, and many, many others. Some of my earliest brushes with the world of traditional folk and western music were folks such as the Kingston Trio and the Bar J Wranglers. The artists that were (and are) the most central and influential for me came later, during my college years. Artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Greg Brown, Arlo Guthrie, Gordon Lightfoot, and Fred Eaglesmith have affected my music in a multitude of ways that I may never fully understand.

After years of playing covers, I finally broke into writing my own acoustic folk and blues songs, which touch on many of the timeless subjects that preoccupied my musical heroes, but that have their own blend of strange influences. My music generally focuses on labor, religion, and love, things which I find both tragic and humorous and I try to pay my respects to both of those feelings in my songs.