I wrote this track as the final track in my Americana inspired collection of songs. This track uses handjive-style groove (made popular by Bo Diddley) along slide guitar, drums, B3 organ, and horn section to capture the vibe of a line-dance in a rock’n blues bar.

I wrote this song to go with my album collection of Americana inspired songs. This track uses banjo, acoustic guitars, and bluesy electric slide guitar to create a southern rock inspired sound.

I wrote this piece to capture feeling of excitement and joy of riding in a vintage car with the top down and listening to great danceable music from the 50s and 60s. This track uses those same influences to capture that toe-tapping vibe.

I wrote this song as a reflective Americana piece to capture the mood of driving down the open road in the Southwest with long stretches of open road. I love long drives on roads like this. Its almost therapeutic for your mind and spirit.

I worked on this track for a publisher who was looking songs that sounded like early 70’s Zamrock music playing from a well-worn vinyl LP. Zamrock is a genre that was popular in Zambia in the early 70s that blended influences of hard rock, psychedelic music, funk, and African rhythms. I spent some time working on this track to capture some of the elements into to a piece that sounded cohesive (fuzzed out guitar, wah guitar, congas, organ, etc.) I even had to add some treatment to make the recording sound less hi-fi to fit the era, including static from the old LP. This song has been licensed exclusively to Epitome Music.

This track is part of a collection of Americana retro style tracks that I’m creating for a project. This one is draws on influences of swing, rockabilly, and Gypsy Jazz to create mood that you might hear behind a scene involving a bar room brawl, or gang fight.

This track is part of a collection of Americana tracks that I’m working on. This uses elements of Country, Bluegrass, and classic Spaghetti-Western sounds for a depict an desperate isolated mood like you would feel if your car overheated on the highway somewhere on a lonely stretch of road in the desert.

This track is part of a collection of retro Americana tracks that I’m working on for a collection. This track combines elements of Rockabilly and Boogie Woogie similar to something you might hear in a jukebox from a retro diner.

This is a track I’ve put together for an album of Americana inspired songs. This track draws on influences of Rockabilly and classic Country from musicians such as Scotty Moore (Elvis’s original guitar player on his Sun recordings) and Johnny Cash. For this track I also included lapsteel to provide a bit more of the train vibe to the sound.

I wrote this track as part of an album of Americana tracks that I’m working on, drawing influences of Rockabilly, Boogie Woogie, Western Swing, and Honky Tonk. For this track I even used a lapsteel guitar in C6 tuning to get that classic sound. I thought that it worked well against the Gretsch as a call & answer type of sequence with the main melody, like something you would have heard late 50s dance band.

I wrote this track at the request from a publisher looking for “chill” mandolin instrumental tracks. When I was writing this piece I was thinking of our new grandbaby LucyMae and tried to write something that sounded like a lullaby like the instrumental music we would play for our girls when they were babies, holding them while we rocked them to sleep. I was thrilled to hear back from the publisher who accepted my track for their exclusive library.

One of the libraries I’m working with was asking for some relaxing Ukulele music to add into their catalog. I came up with this piece using several Ukulele tracks and acoustic guitar. There are two versions below. The first version was the original track I came up with. The publisher asked me to make it more “chill” and so I dropped the tempo and re-recorded the track with just a single Ukulele part. This remix version is the one that the publisher ultimately liked the best and licensed for their catalog. This track has been licensed exclusively to Epitome Music.

My father passed away recently.  As a tribute to him it inspired me to record some solo guitar pieces that I’ve been working on over the past few months.  The song “Keepsakes” was one that I just finished only a few days before he passed away.  One of the things that I always liked about my Dad was his love and appreciation for music.  He used to like it when I would play solo acoustic guitar for him at night before bed.  He wouldn’t provide compliments very often (usually razzing me instead as it was his nature to tease), but I knew that he enjoyed it just the same – and it always made me want to try harder to play something that he would enjoy.  I have him to thank for introducing me to Bluegrass, Hank Williams, Western Swing (Bob Wills), Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, and other great music.

Rest in peace Dad!