Jon Storm's compelling contemporary music was conceived in a congress of Southern soul, rock'n'roll, Georgia gospel, rowdy rockabilly, and backstreet blues.

It was born in kudzu-covered bars, in alley-entrance studios, in lakeside pavillions, and in small-town armories rented out for Friday-night dances.

It matured on the road with touring bands, bands that played on bills with Otis Redding and the Rolling Stones, bands that played halls and dives and piers and colleges and even on the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars.

It was disciplined in the demands of a staff song-writing stint at the west-coast publishing branch of giant MCA in Los Angeles.

And it has finally come of age in Jon Storm's albums.