Member Since: 11/30/2006
Band Members: The band is never exactly the same as it is either a collection of guys for the studio, or whoever can gig when we are out. Mostly I write and work in the studio lately.I work with Brent Reason (Concordia Audio Prescott AZ) who is an amazing guitar player and maybe one of the best engineers and producers around, and I have been lucky to work with many well known and very talented engineers. Brent is just one of those people who lives and breathes what he does, does his homework...and is blessed with the touch to boot. In my case, Brent has this amazing ability to hear what is in my mind and soul when I show him a new song…and then play and arrange and engineer it with me so it is exactly what is in my mind’s eye…just the way I would have done it if I had the chops to play the way he does and can….Brent is like having myself doubled…with gifts I don’t have but feel. I've worked with Joe Robertson on acoustic guitar, Jeff Heard on Dobro and Pedal Steel, Tory Edwards on Fiddle and drums, Garry Greer on guitar. Another favorite friend, engineer, producer and player is Andy Kern who lately works out of Red Mountain Studios in Mesa, AZ.Sung and played a great deal with Ruthie Steel, sister of the late great songwriter Max D. Barnes. I was blessed to be counted one of Max and Patsy’s friends. Some of my favorite memories are the time we spent in each other’s company. I worked with Earl Thomas Conley at Sunbird Records and earned a Billboard Single of the Year for "Fire & Smoke" (promotion) and was privileged to sit in on sessions for several of Earl's albums at Scruggs Studios that Nelson Larkin produced. Earl and I and Nelson Larkin and Don Mundo raised a lot of cain in Nashville, Las Vegas and LA during those times. Nelson's brother Billy Larkin was a good writer (and singer) too, and we shared an apartment in Nashville and wrote some together. I also have worked with Don Charles who is a fabulous writer and acoustic guitar player, and Gail and Lew Steiger, both of whom are very accomplished players and writers, as well as very well respected for their work in documentaries and film production, which is one of my other favorite endeavors. www.myspace.com/ratrodguy I’ve also been lucky enough to appear on albums in Europe with Vern Gosdin and Max D. Barnes that proved to be popular for years. I have produced a few compilation albums (where I was also featured) and was invited by the producer to write, perform and produce a song for the world’s first commercially released picture disc, “To Elvis Love Still Burning.†I have released a few indy cd’s which will be available again soon.
Influences: Everyone who has ever written a song or played an instrument that I have been exposed to.
Sounds Like: Hopefully no one but me.
Record Label: Reelife Records
Type of Label: Indie