Nashville-based singer, songwriter, Americana Music Association “Instrumentalist of the Year,” and GRAMMY-nominated producer. He has gold records, and cuts on big albums from luminaries like Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat, Todd Snider, and Radney Foster. He is a member of Willie Sugarcapps, DADDY, and Emmylou Harris’ Red Dirt Boys. He works regularly with combat veterans and first responders as part of the Songwriting with Soldiers team, including having released a single with them back in May. He has more than ten thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where his top five songs alone have a combined total of streams that is closing in on three quarters of a million.
“I'm a songwriter, and that's really how I approach all of it. I approach production as a songwriter. I'm not trying to tell another artist how to write a song, but my brain thinks like that.”
“I'm somebody that wrote songs with Jimmy (Buffet) for 20 years and also wrote the last song that he did that people sort of paid attention to with him.”
“I'm in the Coral Reefer Band and we were on tour last summer with the Doobie Brothers.”
“I played in bands starting at age 12 and I'm talking about practicing every day and playing shows in public starting at age 12… I loved it… And I put out my first music when I was 19. And then moved to Nashville.”
“By September ‘89, my band had a record out on a Capitol Records label, major label, a pop record, a rock record.”
“I formed a band called The Biscuits and we got signed by John Prine's label.”
“(Todd Snider) calls me and says I need a guitar player to tour. I've made this album. So, he sent me his album on cassette, and I listened to it, and I thought it was great. And so, I drove to Memphis where he was living at the time, and his band was there… there's an episode of Austin City Limits where you can see that band at its peak.”
“The late 90s, the music business was just flourishing… country music was coming into the era of Garth Brooks and Shania Twain and George Strait and these artists that always sold like five, six, seven, ten million copies. And pop music was like that too. And so, if you were selling half a million records, you might get dropped, which, now, a half a million selling record would be a number one record. (I) promise you.”
“Rodney Crowell calls me, the hall of fame songwriter – singer/songwriter – calls me in 2000. And he needs a guitar player. His long-time guitar player Steuart Smith had joined The Eagles.”
“It's 2004 and I've got a song on a Jimmy Buffett record and a song on a Little Feet record. And so, what do I do? I make another solo record because still in Nashville having cuts by Jimmy Buffett was not that impressive to publishers – because it wasn’t on country radio.”
“I was (GRAMMY) nominated for a song on a record that I produced, but technically I was nominated as a songwriter. So, but I just happened to also be the producer of the record, and I played on it, and we wrote many songs for the record.”
“…to work on Jimmy Buffett's record that changed our life. Because I had a song on a record that sold a million and a half copies and knocked Jay Z out of number one on the pop charts and knocked somebody like George Strait out of the country charts. It didn't make us rich, but it changed our lives. That's big. That's big.”
“For the Life of Me”
“Wash & Fold”