About Me
I grew up in a musical house full of horn players in Indianapolis, and started playing trumpet when I was ten. It wasn't entirely by choice, but it started me down a very good path. I was pretty good on my horn when braces ended that at age fourteen, but I had already begun to discover the bass guitar and haven't looked back since. I stumbled onto New Orleans music like the Meters, Dr John, Earl King and Lee Dorsey while I was in college, and I packed up my Fenders and headed down the Mississippi soon after. George Porter Jr changed my life. Seriously. I spent most of my twenties in blues bands and funk bands in the sweaty clubs on Frenchman St and uptown, and on the road paying my dues, honing my chops and barely paying my rent. Funk and R&B are my first loves - Motown, New Orleans Funk, Atlantic Soul, Philly International, Stax, Muscle Shoals, East Bay funk - that's the stuff in my gut. Throw that in with a solid background of playing real blues in the juke joints, and that's me. Over the years I've had the opportunity to play with B.J. Rogers and the Recording Kings, The 13st Blues Band, Groove Soup, John Lisi and Delta Funk, Brian Stoltz, Brint Anderson, Charlie Musselwhite, Tab Benoit, The Red Black&Blue Mardi Gras Indians, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, James Andrews & The Crescent City Allstars and Gradoux, as well my current projects The Renard Poche Band, Cortland Burke Band, West Bank Mike and Friends, the 101 Runner Mardi Gras Indians, Smoky Greenwell and the Blue Gnus, Derrick Freemans's Smoker's World, and Alligator recording artist Eric Lindell.
