Artist description Hi! Thanks for stopping by! I hope you'll find my music interesting, thought provoking, uplifting, and even easy to listen to. This is a whole new ballgame for me, so here goes... I am a Christian, and my inspiration for writing lyrics and setting them to music is the direct result of my life experience as a Christian. The music has but one purpose, and that is to glorify God. I'm no saint, and I certainly don't have it all figured out, but I do have a Savior named Jesus... and that's enough for me.

Music Style Acoustic

Musical Influences James Taylor, Jimmy Buffet, Paul Simon

Similar Artists I've been told that sometimes I sound like Neil Young on certain of my songs...

Artist History I grew up in South Bend, Indiana and graduated from Indiana University in the winter of 1988. During the summer that same year, I learned to play the guitar on a friend's 12-string Takamine, which he later sold me, and I've been playing it ever since. I had to sell off four of my best baseball cards (including a rookie Carl Yazstremski and a Mickey Mantle from the same year), but that's another story. I moved to the Catskill Mountain region of New York after college and worked in residence at a Lutheran camp called Koinonia for the next three years. It was during this time that I began writing music. In 1992, I married a girl named Cheryl from Oyster Bay (at least that's where she was from when I met her), and carted her off to West Virginia where we live and work today. I am the Camp Director at Bluestone Conference Center for the Presbytery of West Virginia, PCUSA. We have two really neat kids, Alexandra and Brett. By the turn of the century, it had been about eight years since I'd written anything musically. In the summer of 2000 I got to work with an extraordinary group of people... the summer program staff for Bluestone. For the record, every staff I've worked with over the years has been extraordinary in a variety of different ways... but this was the year that somebody said "you know, there ought to be a song for Bluestone... let's write one". So we did. For me, that experience rekindled a flame that had gone out within me. Since then, I have been affirmed and reaffirmed that this is a light that needs to be shined... so here I am. I believe Jimmy Buffet was right when he said "the music we make here on Earth... the words they are His own"... a line from an old song of his called God Don't Own a Car. I hope you will be blessed by the music on this site. In all things, first and foremost, to God be the glory... Amen.

Instruments Acoustic: 12-string Takamine, and sometimes a 6-string Washburn

Albums time 2 sing

Location Hinton, WV - USA

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