From the performer:
I knew I wanted to do music when at age nine when I heard one of the staff at summer camp play “That’ll Be the Day” by Buddy Holly on an acoustic guitar. I got my own guitar when I was eleven and my cousin Barry Jens started showing me a few chords, turning me on to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. Then along came Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Peter, Paul, and Mary, etc. along with the “British Invasion” and I was hooked, inundated by the Golden Age of popular music that was the ’60s and early ’70s. All through school I was in a folk group and a rock band, playing in bars starting at age fifteen. I spent a year at college, met Kyrl and Jane Henderson and formed the acoustic trio Boulder Roll. We went to California pursuing the Dream but things didn’t pan out and I wound up in the Twin Cities where I started writing songs; I played solo gigs as well as in bands with such notables as Dan Neale, Dan Lund, Becky Thompson, Russ Pahl, Peter Ostroushko, and Lonnie Knight, while also doing an occasional Boulder Roll reunion. It was during this time that I opened for Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, the high point of my musical career.