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I'm a Texas native. Award Winning International Author. Artist and Composer.
In his words
Even before I finished grade school, I had a guitar. My
friends and I played those old guitars till our fingers bled. I received my
first award for writing about that same time, and then in the following year I
received my first award for Art.
Those endearing middle school years, a friend and I started
a band, “The Fluorescent Rainbow."
Received my first music award playing with "Up with People" a
large cast with a band. I played 12
string and lead guitar. We made three albums in those years. Despite all, I
found time to give Guitar lessons. By the end of middle school, I played with
six or seven different bands. We played the final dance of the school year with
the last band. It was a fitting way to leave.
I took a little trip to Nashville the
summer after high school graduation, but not much accomplished there unless you
count chasing girls. However, I managed to talk to a few, a very few
industry leaders in the Nashville sound. My wife and I married a year after
that and are still together. I tried my hand at other things such as
drafting, which I found hard to stay interested when I loved the arts so much.
Like many native Texan musicians, I guess you could say I cut my teeth on the
guitar neck.
My mother played a little guitar and had a fine hand for
art. Her cousin had a band that played around McKinney, Texas. She also had a radio show at one time. My
father played a little piano and could sing some. His parents were published
poets. Many a night, at home as a kid
there was live music well into the night, and, from there to electrical and
mechanical engineer. I was always writing, painting and of course making music.
I decided it was time to get back to the band. So I hooked
up with a little Texas C & W band called "Blue Northern." The
lead singer sounded like Willie Nelson and we had some good times. Our best gig
was the "White Elephant" at the stockyards in Fort Worth. You can't
get much more country than that. I left the band after about a year. My wife
and I travelled some when we could. We fell in love with Vancouver B.C. visited
a couple of time. I enjoyed the beaches in Cancun one summer trip. But I think it was the trip to Jamaica that
we had the time of our lives. The music, art and writing were very influenced
by the travels.
All my work was about to take over the house and I published
a few things, lyrics and poems. Some made print in books, and in magazines. I
had a dozen accolades and was published overseas, also got included in the Hall
of Fame at “World of Poetry." Later, Publish America took a series of my
Mystic books, and published, "Mystic Poems, Mystic Navigation, and the
best "Mystic Realms." My first
two books included my illustrations.
I continued writing...
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