Memphis, Tennessee
32 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Songwriter, Vocalist

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BIOGRAPHY

I played in a band in college--more just for the fun of it than anything else. Once I graduated, I lived in Austin for six years, where I taught English for a full-time job. While living there, I began taking songwriting more seriously, playing coffee houses and recording a spare DIY album. For the past three years I've lived in Memphis. For about a year I've fronted the acoustic folk-pop/rock band Short in the Sleeve. We'll be recording a four-song EP at the end of February.

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Pop, Rock

Contact

Booking: shoebox93@hotmail.com

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / harmonica

INFLUENCES

Josh Ritter, BNL, Jackson Browne, Ryan Adams, Guster

DAY JOB

English teacher

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal

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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,