Frequently Answered Questions

Born: St. Louis Missouri

Childhood: Pocahontas, Arkansas

First instrument: Piano

Favorite Guitar: Fender Telecaster

My Studio Piano: Steingraeber D-232, Home-Yamaha C7

Studio Monitors: ATC SCM50, Kii3, Yamaha NS10

Favorite Drummers: Ringo Starr, Mitch Mitchell, Stewart Copeland

Favorite Guitarist: Mark Knophler

Favorite Pianist: Bruce Hornsby

Believe in God?: Definitely

Married?: Happily

Siblings: Two – older brother Scott, younger sister Patricia

Musical influences: Everything I’ve ever heard

Narrow that down?: The Beatles, everything Motown, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Stephen Sondheim, Jimi Hendrix, John Williams, James Taylor, Rage Against The Machine, Sting, Cole Porter, James Newton Howard, Finneas O’Connell

Favorite escape: Flyfishing the Madison, Slough Creek, (Yellowstone Park, WY), White (VT), and Bitterroot, (MT) Rivers, and bonefishing in the Bahamas.

Most offensive quality in people: Pretentiousness

Wisest quote: “Be yourself, everyone else is taken” (attributed, probably mistakenly, to Oscar Wilde)

Favorite food: Sushi (when authentic and traditional, -very rare now-)

Best advice: Keep it simple

Hardest thing in life: Keep it simple