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Glass Puzzle. It was short lived, but that's when I made my first attempt at songwriting. Along the way I learned how to play a few beats on various hand drums and percussion. Many years later of on again-off again playing and writing tunes, and I met Stephen in early 1996. That was the musical path that lead me to the Porch Daddies.
My musical interests are as eclectic as how I learned to play. My Dad turned me on to Ricky Scaggs and my Mom, 70's top 40, and the Beatles. As I grew and found a genre I didn't know about yet, I usually found something to like about it. The Dead, JD Crowe, Billie Holliday, Moxie Fruvus...it's all good.
My interests in production came later. I came to love all the sound and mixing work that goes into producing a recording. Co-producing our stuff, especially the newer stuff has been a lot of fun.

My first album was the Eagle's greatest hits (Vol. 2), and I got my first guitar around the sixth grade, I think. It was a catgut "beginner's" guitar my Mom got me from J.C. Penny's. My Dad had shown me the boogie woogie riff the summer before, and I would strum it every now and again, but my interest in it didn't peak until he gave me his old six string when I was about sixteen. Never having the luxury of music lessons, I picked out what I could slowly. From the radio, my friends, anywhere I could. As a result, I'm told I have this wierd, unique choppy rhythmic style. I played in a few coffeehouses in high school, alone, and in another duo called