Australian guitarist, songwriter, and acoustic live looping artist now living in Nashville. In 2015, he became the only Australian artist to ever win Top Honors at the International Acoustic Music Awards and the following year he and his family moved to Nashville. Between multiple headliner performances at festivals and touring, he is rumored to be one of the busiest musicians in Nashville. He is becoming well known by his signature “dreads and red glasses.”
"I guess my kids have probably consumed 90 percent of direct or indirect influence in my songwriting."
"Not everybody always feels incredible, so, I feel like sometimes writing a, not depressing song, but, a less than positive song, is sometimes a good outlet and people can relate to it."
"There's a soothing factor, I think, also with the physical vinyl, actually listening to a record I feel like, I like physically pulling it out and putting it down and I stare at it like I'm watching a fire. It's really therapeutic. It's nice."
"Since 2012 I've been back and forth from Australia to Nashville, songwriting and recording... and every time I noticed I came over here to the U.S. things would spark up. The fire would re-ignite."
"I was actually signing with a new label that was being launched at the time. So we were right at the point of looking for accommodation and where are we going to live, and obviously Nashville was the spot where we were planning on heading, and, ... right up until the last second everything was going ahead... and then the label fizzled... and so that all fell through."
"Musicians get rejected - it's like going for a job interview every single day of your life and you get rejected every single one, except for maybe ten, in your whole life. And luckily for some people it's early on in the interview process that they get a good one and they get hired, and some people it's going to take a long time. But we're used to dealing with, it's frustrating, but, as musicians, for me personally, I'm used to dealing with rejection."
"I feel like the real challenge is... really trying to hold on to what you represent and what you want to say and what you want to achieve and what you want to do, your end goal. Everybody says they want to go out and make music ... but, you can do that in your bedroom. You don't have to be a musician full-time... If it's truly not about the money, then... make some music and be happy... Whereas if you have a message that you want to deliver or you've got something you want to say, then that's a different story."
"One of my favorite gigs to do of all time, is house concerts. It's such an intimate thing... I can play songs that I wouldn't otherwise play."
"The first co-write, legit co-write, that I ever did was with a guy named Kim Tribble and I think to-date, he's probably lost count, but I feel like it's about 18 Number Ones among hundreds of other Billboard allocations."
"I feel like you shouldn't be bound by a genre when you want to write a song."
"Crayon Days"
"Better"
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