I play guitar, slide guitars and dobro. After a couple of semesters at Berklee College of Music, in 1979, I moved to Nashville. I picked up bits and pieces of the Nashville Number System while working in writer's nights bands and doing demo sessions. At a writer's night, the band backed up 20 to 30 songwriters. We would play their original songs with no rehearsal, just number charts. We wrote alot of the charts ourselves and recieved great ear training taking dictation from thousands of song demos.

Some other good times I've had in this business were a year and a half playing dobro and guitar with Maura O'Connell. I then played guitar and slide guitar on the road for 3 years with Wynonna Judd. This was her first band after The Judds broke up. I then toured for 1 1/2 years as guitarist with David Gates of Bread. In June of '99, I became a member of Nanci Griffith's Blue Moon Orchestra and played with them for 3 1/2 years. I played on Nanci’s 2001 record, “Clock Without Hands” and 2002 live cd and dvd,”Winter Marquee”. I co-produced and played dobro and guitar on the cd, “Sisters Wade” and played dobro on their latest record,”Walls Of Time.”

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