Nashville, Tennessee
28 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Composer

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"he not busy being born is busy dying"

BIOGRAPHY

I was born in the evergreens of the pacific northwest. I was raised in the cornfields of small-town iowa. I live in the home of country music, nashville, tn. I write my songs on the upright piano in my house under the windows where the sun shines in. I've spent the last few years traveling the states on my own in my VW. When its right, I take my band...cause that's how I hear it in my head. I've released some records over the years that most people have nice things to say about.

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Soul, Indie Rock, Pop

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Son of Geert Music, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: Nettwerk Management - mikec@nettwerk.com
Label: Son of Geert
Booking: Progressive Global Agency - hunter@pgamusic.om

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

piano, guitar, trumpet, drums, bass

INFLUENCES

Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Band, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, David Bowie, Randy Newman, Rainer Marie Rilke, Neil Young, Shuggie Otis, Billy Preston, Al Green, Woody Allen, Jack Kerouac

DAY JOB

recording artist

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

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 PLACEMENTS

Television: ABC's "Brothers and Sisters" MTV's "The Hills" Film: Disney's "Bridge to Terabithia"

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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,

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Spoon: The Power of Transference

In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over 15 years, the Austin, Texas band have survived lineup shuffles and early record label neglect, finding their signature style with 2001’s Girls Can Tell and quietly building one of the strongest rock catalogs of the decade.