New album, Navigating Life, available now!

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I started writing songs as a teenager. Not all that many, but got a little more into it in college. Once I was out there playing guitar in bands, I always managed to get a song or two into the set list, but was never really comfortable with pushing that side of things.

Then after a couple of divorces, along with a couple of career collapses, things started turning around. I realized that the guitar teaching I was doing as a side hustle was a true calling, a main hustle, if you will.  I lucked into a wonderful girlfriend, and continued to grow my relationship with my son.

Then, the songs started flowing, a lot. I found myself waking up in the morning with a song idea in my head and, still in my pyjamas, grabbing a guitar and running it down until I had at least the basic bones of a viable song. I would sing musical lines and dictate lyric ideas into my phone at all times of the day.  And I became involved in a wonderful community of NC songwriters who have become my friends and mentors.

I invested in some basic recording hardware and software and got to work. After some fits and starts, I got serious about putting together a collection of songs. And here we are, twelve songs, some soft and intimate, some rocking hard, and some downright silly. I played and sang most of the parts myself, but was fortunate to have contributions from my son, Zach, on percussion on the title track, along with my good friend Barry Gray adding beautiful harmonies here and there.

Navigating Life. We all have to do it. We might as well sing about it.