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I have been traveling since 1991 - at the age of 15. I haven't really stopped since. I began hopping freight trains regularly by the end of 1994 and continued to do this and play my songs solo by camp fires and the occasional open mic. I currently have 363 original songs (check out the list under the blog "songlist") and I would probably have more if not for the fact that I carried very few possessions while traveling - at many times even without a guitar until I decided to quasi "settle down" in New Orleans for the winter of 1998-1999. Since then I've been in and out of many bands - first in New Orleans with "Zputnk Zardox" then in '99 with a trio called the "Double Pumper Hollies". In 2000, "Euphonious Wail" and then more freight trains. New York in the Spring of 2001 heralded another trio called "The World Famous Vaudevillains" then back on the road in 2002 until New Orleans in 2003 and the "Black Socks Orchestra". Then more traveling the States until a fall trip to Italy to meet up with the "Cyclown Cirkus". We called the band the "Smoking Time Jazz Club" and bicycled all around Europe playing shows in about every setting imaginable. In 2004, there was the "Strummy & Blowy Ragtime Showee!" in Spain & "Rod Stewart & the Fartbags" in Belgium who continued biking to Berlin and playing shows. Eventually I returned to the States in September of 2005 and to the then recently devastated city of New Orleans in December where I performed with those "Evil Do Gooders". In May of 2006, I set off on a tour in a veggie oil-powered bus with "ClownSnot Bombs" to the west coast. We combined tours with SPAZ (Mutate or Die Tour) and wrapped it up in August at the Autonomous Mutant Fest in Washington. In September, a couple friends and I worked on a short recording project in Oakland, California as "Underhouse Strings & Bellows". In January '07 I headed back down to New Orleans for the season where I played sousaphone with a dixieland band named "Loose Marbles" for a month and a half, played the Abbey every thursday night, tinkered on lead guitar (with distortion bwaa haa haa) for a minute in the band "Spiritwalker", as well as in the Mole's backup band, and blew some tuba with "Hush You Train" when I wasn't recording, mixing, bending nails or just trying to have a spare moment to spend with Katie Ray. Before we left in May, we did a quick 8-song recording with the "Choozy Beggarz". In July in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, a friend and I recorded an epic rock opera about a dog named "Mr. Man" as the "Free Rides". In the beginning of August '07, Katie and I did a childrens' circus skill share and show near Garberville, California with The "Secret Cirkus" & some great friends. In the fall, after a brief bicycle tour from Seattle to San Francisco - calling ourselves "The Honky Parade" - doing more shows with the "Secret Cirkus" & "The Sour Mash Hug Band" - we shot deep south into Mexico. We got back to New Orleans by Christmas and stayed until May 2008 - mostly playing tuba with the "Loose Marbles" again and a newer band called the "Muskrat Ramblers". Katie & I had a fun summer with our families this year and drove across the U.S. with my thirteen-year-old son, Felix. We played shows with the Sour Mash Hug Band & the Secret Cirkus around the Bay Area and the northwest again thru the fall. Now we're back home in New Orleans for the season - playin tons of music with The Points, Sour Mash, Marygoround & the Tiptoe Stampede, and the Cyclown Cirkus. By the way, the website www.blu-recordings.com, which usually has lots of writing and music on it, is now under construction - but, if you'd like to hear recent songs that I've recorded, keep checking in on me and I'll keep trying to switch it up. And if you'd like to hear older songs from my hobo days - you can check 'em out by clicking on the "guitar blu" profile in my "friends".