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I’m a musician and writer, and I’ve practiced my crafts in New Orleans for 25 years, except for a brief interruption brought on by a little hussy named Katrina. These days, I play mostly acoustic bass, and mostly various jazz styles (straight ahead/post-bop, traditional New Orleans style, and Euro/gypsy ala Django), but I started as an electric bassist, and I’ve played almost everything at one time, except for metal and rap.
My experience includes work with some fairly well known blues and zydeco artists, including Sherman Robertson, Snooks Eaglin, Earl King, Rockin’ Dopsies both Junior and Senior, and Lynn August. I was the original bassist with the Tex-Mex-flavored roots-rock band the Iguanas, who have by now quite a few film soundtrack credits to their name.
I’m also a songwriter, with a moderate sized catalogue. I have songwriting as well as bass credits on Coco Robicheaux’s 1992 release Spiritland, and I recently had a song called “Wee Hours Woman” covered by the Bourbon Cowboys. I’ve been in a few bands which featured mostly original material, mine as well as other member’s. These would include Channel Zero, 30x90, (not the all-girl blues band currently performing in New Orleans) Chris Polacheck and the Flying Palmettos, and Pagan Radio. My partner and co-leader/writer from Pagan Radio, Paul Hayes, is doing quite well as a solo artist, and has toured Europe several times on the strength of his CD Love And Pain And the Whole Damn Thing, which features some of the same material of Paul’s that we played in the band.
Most of my original material is pretty roots/americana oriented, with lyrics that are a little bit “out there.” Think Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, or Randy Newman. Now that I am playing more jazz, and developing as a jazz musician, I want to write songs in that idiom, too, and I’m working on that.
My writing career has been mostly music journalism, and a little poetry. Journalistic credits include the Times-Picayune, (New Orleans daily newspaper) Offbeat and Beat Street, (local entertainment monthlies) Option, and the Austin Chronicle.
With poetry, in addition to publishing in a bunch of short-lived little magazines, I have been in several anthologies, The Maple Leaf Rag 15th Anniversary Edition and Maple Leaf Rag III, (Portals Press,) and Umpteen Ways Of Looking At A Possum: Creative and Critical Responses To Everette Maddox (Xavier University Press.) I created my layout at KillerKiwi.net
Mr. B's Bistro, NOLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnUsNrYRZ8

Performing at my weeklyjazz brunch at Mr. B's Bistro, New Orleans, with Joe Cushenberry on banjo and Bob Benoit on clarinet.