Songwriter, touring musician, producer and engineer and owner of Cimarron Sound Lab who was born in Arkansas City, Kansas and raised on the plains of North-Central Oklahoma, in Newkirk. At an early age he and his family moved to St Louis, MO. were he was introduced to Blues & Rock & Roll, from that point on he was hooked on Blues, Rock & Roll, & the Cardinals. Both his parents were musicians, his father a jazz musician, theater actor and barbershop singer, and his mother a music teacher, pianist and organist.