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My earliest childhood memories are of climbing up on a countertop to reach the radio. The first thing that struck me then still strikes me today - the sound of it all. And of all those sounds, none were better to me than the guitar. Finally getting one around the time of my ninth birthday, I began to practice endlessly, enamored by the quest but with very few specific musical role models. Enter Stevie Ray Vaughan. His seven-minute tour-de-force on Little Wing exploded with the onset of adolescence, inevitably leading back to Jimi Hendrix. And then...Chet Atkins. Which changed everything. Immersing myself in the world of finger-style guitar for the next decade, I began to see the connections to American Roots Music and pre-war blues minstrels like Blind Blake were making an equally indelible impression on my musical pathway. All while Chicago blues and its baby, rock and roll, hit too hard to ever get over. And so I love it all, and throughout it all the basic goal remains the same - to be a musician who simply happens to play guitar