Columbus, Ohio
33 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Vocalist, Lyricist

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"Is it worth it love, if it only leaves a scar when it's done?"

BIOGRAPHY

I always feel weird writing these things. It is my sincerest apology that this wont be put in the third person.

I am a singer/songwriter based in Columbus, Ohio. Every day I am working on a song of some sort. I am polishing, writing or recording something.

In the past I have played with bands and found that a solo singer/songwriter gig isn't all that bad. So, I play around town and on occasion, I play out of state.

Music is my way of dealing. The songs are captured moments of my life. Typically they are stories of intense emotion or about moments that have just stuck in my mind.

It is my sincerest hope that all of my songs are beautiful, raw and honest.

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Folk, Pop, Rock

Contact

Administrative: Steven Shanks

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / vocals

INFLUENCES

Elvis Presley, Damien Rice, U2, The Beatles, Pete Yorn

DAY JOB

Corporate Trainer

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
in getting a record deal
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

experience >

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Last week, while playing an open mic night, a guy at the bar liked me so much that he bought me a beer. Does that count as an award or an accolade?

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Legends: Bobby Braddock

In Nashville, most successful songwriters have a fairly short run. On hit, one year, two years, five years. Occasionally, we get one whose career approaches the length of a real career or, more often, one who has a few years success, then slips into oblivion, only to emerge again for another brief era of hit-making.

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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.