46 Years Old

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BIOGRAPHY

I began songcrafting over the last two years and am "hooked". I have written several songs and I am currently developing lots of ideas, melodies. My primary goal is the care of the song and development of the craft. Relax and enjoy the process, it's gonna be great. Everything I upload will be very primitive/raw versions of my stuff recorded on my Edirol. That may change later or it may not.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Folk, Pop

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar

INFLUENCES

Just about everything.

DAY JOB

physician/father

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

When I'm in the mood

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

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody

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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,