Career
Sixty plus years of Country Music
This is very, very short description of my career until I can expand on this page. I was born in 1954 in Salisbury Maryland. Raised in a small town named Sharptown. I loved growing up in a small rural farming town. Started playing guitar in 1966 and started onstage in 1968 with my dad in his small local bar after we moved to Waldorf MD. Played in a band with my dad for 8 years total. Three years in his bar, one year in the Waldorf area after he sold his bar and 4 years after we moved back to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and put together a new band. We performed all over the Eastern Shore and opened for several Nashville artists. In 1977, after Elvis passed away. I got an incredible opportunity to move to Nashville.
In Nashville I worked with J.D. Sumner and the Stamps Quartet, Grand Ole Opry star, David Houston, R.W. Blackwood, Vern Gosdin, and Jerry Wallace. I spent a year with my own band in Faron Youngs Celebrity ballroom in 1979 and in 1980 I went to work as band leader and lead guitarist for country music legend George Jones. (I have stories I will tell later). I November of 1981 I left George and moved to Ft Worth Texas. I put my own band together in March of 1982, playing music full time for 37 straight years in almost every club in the DFW area.
The road started behind the wheel of an overloaded van, stringing together county halls, dance pavilions, and roadside taverns across the American interior. Every room demanded unadorned songs that spoke plainly to working people at the end of hard weeks.
Studio sessions followed the same discipline. Analog two-inch tape rewarded ensemble timing, acoustic clarity, and arrangements built around steel guitar accents rather than modern studio tricks. That commitment kept the catalog grounded across five changing decades.
Four chapters of performance
Pine Stage Beginnings
Analogue Studio Sessions
National Highway Routes
The Production Workshop
Early touring years logging regional road circuits, honing rhythm chops, and establishing a loyal grassroots following across southern dancehalls.
Tracking early long-play records straight to magnetic tape with seasoned session players and three-part vocal arrangements.
Decades of headline festival sets, acoustic theater tours, and enduring catalog songs recorded across independent regional labels.
Documenting recorded history while preparing a dedicated tracking studio to support the next generation of roots songwriters.
Every mile of blacktop taught us that an audience always hears the difference between showmanship and the truth.
Fifty-Year Retrospective Notes
Browse archival performance prints, vintage guitar cases, backstage candid snapshots, and tour memorabilia preserved from 1972 through today.