Let’s see… My friend showed me some chords in his basement, and my first strums were learned on my mom’s Gaucho, which was a total piece of shit guitar, but it caught my interest, and I got hooked. Around the same time, I saw Greg Brown play at Micheal’s Edgewater Inn in Bellevue, Iowa, sometime around the holidays. Best show of my life. I remember thinking that this guy’s got the best job in the world. Maybe someday I could do something like that. Maybe it was just a coincidence that I’d just learned my first chords…. I’ve been lucky enough to play many a rollicking night either here or there, with alot of good folks, and it’s been a blast. I’m a sucker for live music, and I’m glad that I’ve got something to throw into the stew.