When I was a kid, I wanted to be “a sax man” after hearing a song (that will go unnamed) on the radio featuring a gaudy, house-rockin baritone saxophone. My mom already had a guitar, so she said I could take guitar lessons instead. I began studying with the guitar sensei of Montgomery, Jimmy “Super Cool Lick” Mills, at age ten, and I soon found the joy of recording myself at home on my dual tape deck and jamming with friends around camp fires, which is where Jerry Chapman taught me to play slide… Thanks Jerome! I began performing around the Southeast when I was 14 with a band some friends and I put together called Far South Movement. That led to meeting, working with and learning from other great groups in the area like Blues Old Stand and Secondhand Jive and well versed jazz and blues players on the Alabama scene like Sam Williams, Ike Bell, Bo Berry, Kina Boto, Jay Berry, John Bull, Spike Graham, Gate Band, Cloverdale Band, Debbie Bond, Mike McCracken, Microwave Dave, Little Whit & Big Bo, Sean Nowell, and Topper Price.

I’ve been blessed to work with some amazing people over the years and have collaborated on stages and in studios with a diverse range of artists, musicians and producers including: Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Little Whit & Big Bo, Blues Old Stand, Sean Nowell, Secondhand Jive, Topper Price, J.M. Turner, Dave P Moore, Loudon Wainwright III, Bishop Kevin P. Turner, UAB Gospel Choir, Marquita Anthony, Sarah Greene, Shades Mountain Baptist Church, Rev. T.N. Miller, Oteil Burbridge, Sharrif Simmons, Ray Johnston, Snarky Puppy, Bobby Sparks, Gaye Arbuckle, India Ramey, Col. Bruce Hampton (Ret.), The Broken Saucers, Rev. Jeff Mosier, Paper Anniversary, Kebbi Williams Wolfpack ATL, Mark Lettieri, Cory Henry, The Funky Knuckles, Foxy Callwood, Chris Alpiar, Rachael Wilson, Sander Pinhiero, Robert “Sput” Searight, Mark Rivers, Jennifer Hartswick, Tyler Neal, Jack Preston, Bill Graham, Kashiah Hunter, Jason Grubbs, Taylor Hollingsworth, James Jackson & Temple of Prayer Family Worship Cathedral, Nathan De’Shon Myers, Thunderbolt Stanley

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