Salt Lake City, Utah

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GENRES

Americana/Roots, Singer/Songwriter, Folk

P.R.O.

ASCAP

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

I WRITE:

For a living

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

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
music

experience >

SONG PLACEMENTS

My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Western Skies, You're The Song) Subaru (Lost Highway)

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

2nd Place, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriter Showcase (2010) 5th Place, Telluride Troubadour (2009) Bluebird Tent, Country Throwdown Tour (2010)

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

ALBUMS: The Lower Lights // A Hymns Revival (2010) The Lower Lights // Come Let Us Adore Him (2011) SONGS (co-writes): She Leaves A Light On // Atherton (Skyline Motel) Shadows Of A Song // Sarah Sample (Someday, Someday) Every Time I Go // Sarah Sample (Someday, Someday) I'm Ready // Sarah Sample (Someday, Someday) Used To You // Sarah Sample (Born To Fly EP) Hard // Mindy Gledhill (Feather In The Wind)

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Q&A: Bright Eyes

After a brief stint as a solo artist, Conor Oberst has revived Bright Eyes to release The People’s Key, an album that deals with the nature of time, spirituality, and human existence. Also, it’s Rastafarian friendly.

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Alison Krauss: The Golden Girl

These days, many Nashville-based artists co-write their own material with big name songwriters so they can share a piece of the royalty pie in times of declining CD sales. But the truth is, a lot of those co-writes can’t match the work of people whose calling in life is to create high-quality songs above anything else.

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Jessica Lea Mayfield: Look At Miss Ohio

“Things are starting to get weird.”

Jessica Lea Mayfield, whose Nonesuch Records debut Tell Me is in stores now, is on the phone from her home in Ohio and we’re having a good laugh over her recent success. It’s beer o’clock on both ends of the phone, the last interview in a long week of talking to complete strangers for the two of us.

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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....