Gallipolis, Ohio
28 Years Old
Songwriter

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"I need a small vacation but it don't look like rain -"

BIOGRAPHY

I’m a 28 year old stay-at-home Dad, husband, Wright State University graduate born and raised Ohioian. I’ve been a plumber’s assistant, landscaper, seamstress, gardener, warehouse worker, robot operator, project manager, components buyer and a salesman. No matter what I did this dream of songwriting just kept haunting me. And so in the fall of 2008 I started writing seriously honing my craft by attending NSAI events and SongU.com classes. Ever since I jumped in head first things have unfolded with a strange ease. My songs keep getting better, the contacts keep rolling in, and I continue to meet the right people at the right time. I have a fistful of indie cuts and a lot of major label interest but my first major label cut is still around the corner. It’s not ironic how things work out when you are using the gifts that God has given you.

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Country, Alternative Country, Rock

Contact

Administrative: Andrew Scott Wills

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

bass / acoustic guitar / electric guitar

INFLUENCES

Bob Dylan, Rivers Rutherford, Jimmy Webb, P.F. Sloan, Jars of Clay, Craig Wiseman, Jeff Black, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, CCR, Live, Black Crowes, John Mayer, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, Sixpence None the Richer, The Who, Staind, dc Talk, Johnny Jolin, CSNY, The Hollies, Bush, Coldplay, Phil Keaggy, Simon and Garfunkel, America, The Police, Sam Bush, Ricky Skaggs, Louis Armstrong, Tchaikovsky, Allison Krauss, Counting Crows, Gordon Lightfoot, The Guess Who, Goo Goo Dolls, Feetwood Mac, Smashing Pumpkins, John Lee Hooker, Elvis, Lifehouse...and Jesus

DAY JOB

Songwriter

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

experience >

SONG CUTS

Andy Griggs (1) Front Porch Country Band (2) Johnny Jolin Band (3)

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Top 10 NSAI/CMT Listeners Choice Top 25 Music City Songwriting Competition

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

I have written several Christian Country songs with regional popularity such as "You're Still the Lord" and the "The Great Ones." In addition, several of my Country songs are currently performed by the Johnny Jolin Band of Central Pennsylvania. I perform occasionally, but it is not my passion.

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Legends: Bobby Braddock

In Nashville, most successful songwriters have a fairly short run. On hit, one year, two years, five years. Occasionally, we get one whose career approaches the length of a real career or, more often, one who has a few years success, then slips into oblivion, only to emerge again for another brief era of hit-making.

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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.