Raised in Noblesville Indiana, I learned to play the guitar at 12 so I could accompany myself on the songs of the Mama's and the Papa's, Pete Seeger and the Beatles. I started to write my own ridiculous songs about school crushes and the like but have of course developed much more diverse subject matter.
My musical curiosity began with folk and quickly branched out to explore jazz, punk, alternative, pop, classical, R&B and opera and circled right back to folk all over again. Folk is I belie...