born: louisville, kentucky, 1969.
started studying piano at age 4.
switched to bass and guitar at around age 13.
formed songwriting partnership with Michael Krassner in 1993, eventually recording together as the Lofty Pillars, and also later as the Unseen Hand.
a few of the artists wil has performed and/or recorded with:
Bevel , Calamity & Main , Califone , Val Esway & El Mirage , Invisible Cities , Simon Joyner , Lofty Pillars , Eleni Mandell , Manishevitz , Goh Nakamura , Parker Paul , Patrick Park , the Real Sippin' Whiskeys , Smelley Kelley's Plain High Drifters , Try Me Bicycle
influences:
ABBA, Rusty Allen, Laurie Anderson, Chris Bell, D. Boon, David Byrne, Chuckles the Klown, the Clash, Nels Cline, Bootsy Collins, Rick Danko, Trotter Gillis, George Harrison, George Herriman, Ted Hawkins, James Honeyman-Scott, George Hurley, James Jamerson, Waylon Jennings, Carol Kaye, Tom Keifer, Fela Kuti, Lone Justice, Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Steve Martin, Rick McElroy, Ellen McIlwaine, Marcus Miller, Mingus, Monk, Bernard Odum, Hank & Keith Shocklee/Carl Ryder/Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Joey Spampinato, Phil Spector, Bob Stinson, Bruce Thomas, Fred Thomas, Richard Thompson, Maureen Tucker, Mick Turner, Tom Verlaine, Mike Watt, Paul Westerberg, Verdine White, Bernie Worrell, James Worthy, Robert Wyatt
