music, recording music, theater, intelligent conversation, the clear air of the desert, summer starry skies
intelligent, sincere, warm people, musicians who love to share their art, people who know how to harmonize!
influences include beethoven, bach, beatles, elvis, gracie slick, the 3 "j's" (joni mitchell, joan baez and judy collins!), mozart, all the great bands of the 60's and 70's (could go on for days!, my father, bluegrass.i am also influenced by my fellow local musicians, those i enjoy listening to and those i sing and play with (whom i also enjoy listening to).sometimes i am solo, sometimes duo and often part of a trio called wooden nickel with ted quinn and tal hurley. every once in awhile i have the pleasure of lending some harmonies to the thrift store allstars. mostly, i just like making music!