Nashville, Tennessee
39 Years Old
Lyricist, Instrumentalist, Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

I am a staff writer at Studio 33 Music Group in Nashville, TN. I am also one of the primary writers and the bassist for the country-pop-rock band, Scarlet Kings. I am primarily a lyricist but I am involved in all aspects of the writing process. I have shared the writing room with the likes of Danny Kortchmar, Sam Hollander, Dave Schoomer, Jill Cunniff and Stephen Barker Liles. I am relatively new to Nashville and I am looking for co-writing opportunities. I'm also available as a bassist for gigs, sessions, demos, showcases and even tours.

LEVEL

professional

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Studio 33 Music Group, independent publishing company

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

bass / upright bass

INFLUENCES

Lennon/McCartney, Sting, Rivers Cuomo, Tom Petty, Peter Gabriel, James McMurtry, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Tony Levin, Jaco Pastorious, John Paul Jones, The Dali Lama....

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

Charlotte Sometimes, "Waves and the Both of Us" (Geffen/Interscope) - Electric Upright Bass/ Arrested Development, "Since The Last Time" (Edel/Pony Canyon jp.) - Bass Guitar/ Scarlet Kings, "Scarlet Kings" - Co-write, Electric Upright Bass, Bass Guitar

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,