Jalapeno

Bio:

Once Freeport Texas beaches were covered with white sand, not tar balls. Scottsdale Arizona was a little village, and Sedona had 300 people. Moving to East Texas meant moving back a couple decades in time. When you watched the marchers in Selma, and the motorcade in Dallas on TV while working at your parents' store. When you had black friends, but couldn't talk about them. When Christmas meant you got letters in the mail telling you how much you missed by having a Jewish father... When you could sneak off cross the tracks and hear somebody named Ike and some girl named Tina singing a wild driving beat. Then learn from the records to assemble your own soul band and why Otis singing... "You are tiiiirrrrrreeeeeeddd" off key was the coolest thing that there ever was... so you played B3 in Reflections of Soul for many years. Didn't know it was asthma that kept your voice back, so you went to medical school cause you liked Science and treated it. Figured all that out started singing again, sang classical choral music in at St Steven's in Fort Worth TX. Helped do sound at Uncle Calvin's and Jefferson Freedom Cafe, Dallas/Fort Worth Came back to Kerrville Folk Festival after thirty years nothing had changed!. Migrated out of the city to save your sanity, and found found a better way to do medicine. Keyboard since the age of 5, but guitar only 8 years ago. At first fingers wouldn't bend much, a struggle with a broken left little finger never set correctly. Started writing music after spending an afternoon talking to Jonathan Byrd and Collin Boyd. Started serious harmonica three years ago. Paralyzed at first with fear , play in song circles with amazing people, I look up to so very much. Also up to my neck with KRTS, Marfa Public Radio and co host the West Texas Blue Monday show often with blues guitar great Mark Pollock almost every Monday nights at 7:20 PM Central. This year I have been writing and performing lots of music, and have also playing harmonica and Hammond organ with various folks visiting and performing here in the Big Bend region. Thanks for listening to my music. I appreciate your kind attention!

Member Since:

November 09, 2008

Members:

Solo singer and songwriter, but collaborate often

Influences:

Lyrics: Terry Allen, Stephen Foster, Greg Brown, Dave Carter, Andrew Calhoun, Jack Hardy, Guy Clark, Anais Mitchell, Danny Schmidt, Betty Soo Jonathan Byrd and Southpaw Jones among others... Musical harmonics: Josef Zaniwul, Jaco Pastorius, Salif Keita, Nusrat Fatah Ali Kahn, Little Milton, James Taylor, Nelda and Si Morrison (my piano teacher and her husband the first folk singers I ever heard live). So many gifts things given to me by many friends like Bill Nash, Sofia what's her name, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Teri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines. Also Elam Blackman, Trevor Reichman, the Broken Strings bunch, Eliza Gilkyson, Tom Noe, Paul Porter, Linda Silas, Woody W., Andrew Calhoun, and Lonesome Dave Duke. Also those people I wished I had been my friends with but passed before I could meet them Dave Carter, Mickey Newberry, Alan Dameron, Shel Silverstein...on and on and on Bless you all...

Sounds Like:

Whatever...