I grew up out in the San Juan Islands in the small town of Anacortes Washington, where I still live today.
Over the years I've gotten to make music with some really talented folks, especially considering the obscure position in the music industry I comfortably reside in! I've toured all over playing guitar for grammy nominated The Secret Sisters. I spent some years touring full time as banjo virtuoso and Grammy nominated Danny Barnes's accompanist on guitar and mandocello. I played mandolin on Eddie Vedder's recording Better Days for the Sony Pictures movie Eat Pray Love. I recorded most of Jenny Scheinman's solo record Here on Earth in my home studio, featuring Grammy award winner and guitar wizard Bill Frisell, Danny Barnes, Robbie Fulks, and Robbie Gjersoe. Three records of my old folk-rock group Spoonshine were produced by Adam Kasper (Foo Fighters, Cat Power, Pearl Jam, Into The Wild Soundtrack, REM, Soundgarden, Grammy for best rock album). I've also composed music for a few television shows, which have aired on Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and Spike TV.
For all of that, most of the art I make on my own feels like a thought experiment, if an album is made in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make music? Really I just like to experiment with weird sounds in my home studio, write songs, and play guitar in my living room, and somehow that occasionally leads to me venturing out into the world to share some of these concepts. Music!
Fretboard Journal said of my solo record Otter House Sketches "The album is relaxed, beautiful and filled with deft guitar playing".