New York City-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who released a new album last month. Over the past 15 years he has created an extensive body of work totaling eight full-length albums and eight EPs in his solo catalog alone. His music has been featured on SiriusXM and last year two of his songs were featured in the movie “Sid is Dead.” Along the way he has also not only been reviewed by Huff Post, but, his on-stage journey includes performances in England, Denmark, across the U.S., and, sharing a bill with acts ranging from Wang Chung to Nelly to Beatles offspring James McCartney, and more. He is also a two-time finalist in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
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“I had the riff, and I had the opening line for a couple of years, and it just sort of stuck in my head as incomplete. And we got married a few months ago and I all of a sudden realized what to do with the story and what to do with the riff.”
“Some songs you write really quickly. Some songs, they just sort of sit in your closet of unfinished fragments.”
“I record in Garage Band and sometimes I'm just making demos and sometimes I'm making the foundations of the next album.”
“Once you start recording and you're playing your guitar regularly, you start writing new songs that come kind of spontaneous(ly).”
“I was somewhere in Indiana, and I just had this epiphany that I had to figure out a new way to go about doing it and so I decided that I was going to shift and move over to New York City.”
“Touring at the level I was doing it is very expensive… depending on where you are, each hotel night can be, like, 200 bucks at least and a lot of these bills that you're playing as an original band, trying to play whatever the local place that allows original music, you're doing some sort of door split that is not really going to cover much.”
“I had played the New York event in 2022 and after the show he's like, ‘That was great. Would you be interested in coming to England and playing The Cavern Club’?”
“I had signed a non-exclusive deal with a company that does music placement… and they needed well-produced rock songs and those two landed.”
“My heroes are album bands, album people. My favorites are The Beatles, Dylan, The Who, The Stones, and I love listening to albums… I still like making albums and that's what my heroes did.”
“I love vinyl; I love the thrill of going to a record store, the hunt of the vinyl, and all that stuff.”
“A lot of times with me I'll either just randomly start singing something and then I'll either be like, ‘Oh, I should figure out what the chords are underneath it.’ I'll be playing guitar and I'll start humming over top of it and the humming turns into a word where you start seeing, ‘Okay, where do we go with this?’ And sometimes you're just free styling and you're like, ‘This is garbage.’ And sometimes you're like, ‘Oh, quick, I need to write this down,’ and you rush over to either make that voice memo.”
“I like the idea of, if I have the material, to do an album a year.”
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