I'm a singer/songwriter from California. I grew up and spent most of my life in or around Los Angeles. The first music I really remember hearing as I grew up was my Mom listening to Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash. Somehow country music became a part of my soul. I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and begged my parents for a guitar. Bands like Poco and The Flying Burrito Bros. were big influences on me in my teen years. In the 70's I discovered songwriters like Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine and Ray Wiley Hubbard. Steve Earle has been another big influence on my songwriting. I moved to Santa Barbara, CA in the spring of 2002 and lived there until February of 2008 when I moved to Brea, CA in northern Orange County. I've been playing guitar since the age of ten and have spent most of my life playing music for a living. I was fortunate enough to tour as guitarist with Ray Charles in 1985. I played guitar with the Circus Vargas Circus Band for two seasons. That was a trip. Worked on a cruise ship for a year. Can you imagine going to Ensenada, Mexico twice a week for a year? I even remember some of it. I've played in countless bands that no one has heard of. ************************************************************
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** New Year's Eve of 2006 I made the decision to stop playing in cover bands and concentrate on my original material. Kind of felt like if I played 'Brickhouse' one more time I'd lose my mind. I bought a Tascam 2488 and began recording. What you hear is pretty much all done at home with me playing most of the instruments except:
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****On "I Don't Know, Son" Andrew Fleischmann played bass. The song"We're Not Invisible" features Tina Villadolid singing harmony and on "Nicole" Mark Bennett played banjo. ************************************************************
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***The players on "Oh MasterCard" are: Will Barkley - Lead and harmony vocals, guitar and mandolin; Mark "Shark" Bennett - Banjo and harmony vocals; Andrew "Flash" Fleischmann - Bass and Bryan "Smitty" Smith - Drums. 'Oh MasterCard' was recorded and enginnered by Chris Ulep at his studio in Santa Barbara.
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All the songs wriiten by Will Barkley except "I Don't Know, Son" which was co-written with Andrew Fleischmann.
All songs copyright 2007
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