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New York
47 Years Old
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BIOGRAPHY
been playin music and singing since i was @4yrs old,my grandmother played accordion and taut me about music,then in school i tool theory sanng in chorus,was writin sons as a kid,love country music
INSTRUMENTS
acoustic guitar / electric guitar / vocals
INFLUENCES
tom t hall,kris kristofferson,brad paisley,willie nelson,eagles,dire straits,sam cooke,commander cody,nitty gritty dirt band,john prine
DAY JOB
car transporter for auto auction here in ny
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in getting a publishing deal
I WRITE:
When I have time

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES
a song i wrote called "SURVIVORS OF A BROKEN HEART" gets requested when i play at local clubs around here,also asked to sing it for a wedding,and it packs the dance floor
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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,

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