Forest Grove, Oregon
Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

Hello,

Thanks for visiting! I'm just trying to land my songs on cd's, major movie soundtracks and commercials.
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Dear Beer - a sing-a-long party song - great for a cd, and it would be awesome for a beer commericial.
Kiss Your Ass Goodbye - is a rowdy bull-riding song. Hold on!
Bahamas, Bacardi, Bikinis - a fun-in-the-sun song. Imagine the video for this one!

GENRES

Country, Rock , Pop

Contact

Administrative: Jim Luke

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

drums / acoustic guitar / piano

INFLUENCES

Johnny Cash, Beatles, Alan Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Chad Kroeger, Pink Floyd, Tony Arata, Joe Diffie, Don Henley, Earl Thomas Conley, and many more.

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a publishing deal

experience >

SONG PLACEMENTS

03-28-09
"Remember" will play for the final credits of the upcoming thriller "The Fixer" by Nick Michalak. The trailer below has the song. You'll hear it about 1:40 into the trailer.

THE FIXER Final Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5fKR5I0r6I


11-25-08
"Bahamas, Bacardi, Bikinis" is in the film "Get Lost: Baja". Check it out at http://motoventurefilms.com/. This is the 2nd Motoventure film that one of my songs appears in.

11-18-08
"In Love Again" is in the short film REUNION by Adam Kargman. REUNION tells a story of what the lives of the Columbine victims might have been like had they not been killed. Check it out at: http://www.roundhaygarden.com/Reunion.html and be sure click on the CREW link!

12-13-07
“Kiss Your Ass Goodbye” appears in the motorcycle adventure documentary “Get Lost: Oregon”. This film by Brian Van Buskirk and Dru Martin captures a 1500 mile trip from California to Washington and includes breath-taking scenery, incredible cinematography, and a great soundtrack. Check it out at www.motoventurefilms.com.

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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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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.