Member Since: 8/19/2007
Band Members: THE BEAT.... Thanks to Seth Orell for his fantstic drum tracks and also my son Christopher Keith for his great ideas and for adding a guitar track.THE HARDEST GAME WE PLAY ....Kudos to Coy Fuller for his drum tracks, to Brett McCarter for his work ..s and a special thanks to Danny Stapleton for adding electric guitar tracks to this song and for his great work engineering and mastering all my songs here on MySpace. MISSISSIPPI RAIN.... I started writing this song some years ago. It was to be my answer to "Southern Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd however I was unable to complete it until inspired by the events surrounding New Orleans and Katrina. Many thanks to Seth Orell for his great work on drums.GIRL I'VE GOT IT BAD.... This song has an interesting story behind it's recording. I joined and online forum to learn how to set up my own home computer based recording studio. Members were invited to submit their work. I uploaded a rough demo version of this song for critique and to my surprise I received CD's in the mail from musicians who recorded tracks to my song. I'd like to acknowledge Emeric Loan, Kemptville, Ontario for his electric guitar, and drum tracks. Also Moshe Whol, Jerusalem, Israel for his keyboard tracks.NOTE TO SELF... Just me and PC DrummerSOLID GROUND... Just me and PC DrummerSEA OF LOVE... My arrangement of the classic 50's song by Phil Phillips
Influences: I would be hard pressed to name my most important music influences over the years. It may have all started with Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, The Sons Of The Pioneers and all the other great country music artists that provided the background soundtrack for the early 50s in Texas. My parents loved to dance and I remember many nights at gatherings in and around San Antonio. All that was required for a good time then was a concrete slab, a string of clear lights for illumination, a band and Texas country music that must have left its footprint in my most inner ear even as my mind was fixed on kid things.Then of course Elvis Presley and RocknRoll came along and although I was a little young to be caught up in "Elvis fever", I was certainly aware that something unusual was going on. Although my parents were progressive and tolerant of most things, music was not in their plans for my future. I remember an old black Gibson flattop acoustic guitar in our house. I think it was my grandfathers. He had played German drinking songs at parties around Fredericksburg, Texas. Somehow that guitar disappeared when I started spending too much time with it. I guess it was something in our family history about too much drinking and honky tonking. Whatever it was, they just didn't want that life for me. Boy, did I get them back!My teenage years revolved around school activities and girls. In those days girls and boys danced - something more recent generations seem to have dispensed with. Roy Head, Cookie and The Cupcakes, Ray Sharpe, Wilson Pickett, James Brown and Otis Redding provided the beat as we answered the irresistible call of the primal force. At that time, I really had no idea what a large role music would play in my future.The first songs I learned on a guitar were from the American folk tradition. I also picked up some simple blues rhythms from Jimmy Reed. I played for fun with friends and later joined my first band, The Intruders, in the mid 60s toward the end of high school. The 60s...hey, what can I say? That decade touched everyone who lived it whether they were musicians or not. Like most kids in the mid 60s, I listened to our favorite songs on the radio and so heard the Beatles when they first broke on the American scene. But it wasn't until later in college and the release of their "Sargent Pepper" album that I realized that music could communicate ideas on a level beyond raw physical emotion. I was hooked! After that I drank in the whole electric guitar experiment of the "British Invasion."From there, I think, Carlos Santana, more than anyone else, opened new doors for me back into the American music experience. Artists like Stevie Wonder, Grover Washington Jr., and George Benson broadened my musical tastes, but eventually my quest brought me back to the roots of Blues, Rhythm and Blues and Rock n Roll and home to Texas.I hope you like my music.
Record Label: Unsigned