Biography

You know, I understand why someone would be curious about the person who makes the music that they enjoy and want to know more about this wonderful artist whom they so admire. I guess from my own experience as a fan I have seen a flip side to that as well. I often find that I'd rather stick with the way I envision an artist, since that is usually way more interesting and cool than who the artist really is. That being said, I do think it is important to give some info about myself for those that want to know. I'm just going to assume that if you are reading this you have heard my music, so I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about what it sounds like or who influenced me....
I didn't really ever set out specifially to become a musician. I was always pretty obsessed with music growing up in a college town in Texas. I taught myself keyboard and guitar and eventually started writing some songs. At the age of 19, I read an article by a producer/musician named Scott Mathews in a publication called Songwriter's Market. I had literally never sent out any of my stuff before, but I had a small demo recorded and since I found Scott's article so brilliant I decided I might as well send him my demo. He liked it enough to want to work with me. Scott has worked with too many famous people to name, as a session musician and as a producer. I kind of took him wanting to work with me as a sign that I needed to get serious about music and not squander my talent. I self-released my debut record "The Shortest Life" in 2004. After that, I proceeded to write countless songs and hone my craft. I recently went back into the studio with Scott and recorded an EP. "Meaningful Nonsense EP" was released in mid 2007. My EP is, to me, the best music I have ever done. I know that for a lot of artists what they describe as the best music they have ever done tends to be whatever they happen to be promoting at the time. In my case, I really mean it. I am a pretty self-contained musician, I write all of my own stuff and play a lot of instruments. I intend to release as much as possible and experiment as much as possible without losing sight of what made me want to make music in the first place. I think one of the most important attributes I have is my low threshold for boredom. Let's put it this way: if a song isn't at least really good I'm not going to have the patience to finish it. So there you go, now you know more about me than when you started.