Bare Bulb

I've been working on a new album, Bare Bulb. I started recording and experimenting back in August 2010. It's taken longer than expected . My goal is to have the album mixed mastered and out for duplication by the end of February .

The studio is my one car garage. I've been recording on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and through the week I'd play with the tracks researching techniques and training my ears to get the sound I'm looking for. It's interresting how the recording process changes how you hear things, things we as listeners take for granted, there are little things little tricks that make a "sound" cohesive.

I'm a big fan of simplicity and raw music. I love the Muddy Waters tracks with just a guitar, bass, harp, and voice. I love Charlie Parr for his constant stomp and Piedmont Picking. The Black Keys and Jack White for taking the blues back, stripping the polish off of it and getting it back to street level, and Hasil Atkins for doing his thing his way regardless of what is in vogue at the time.

Bare Bulb is what it is. One guitar. One voice. One foot. It's primitive rock and blues. Its a A-Body rat rod with a modern 325 and fuel injection. It uses recent technology of the times, loop pedal, recording software, usb sound interface and inexpensive condenser mics. Its heart and soul is the electrified wire pushed to the wood by a man as he sings stories and pictures.

The Rig is a 1997 Strat with an S1 switch installed through a 1993 '55 Blues Deluxe Reissue preamp out to Peavey Mega-Bass and a 15" bass cab.

The Songs are all written loved, polished, tarnished, played, worked and sweated by me.
I should have CDs to sell by March. I'll update again when I have a Hard Date.

Hard Head Thick Skin and Honest Heart.

Everyone has advice, everyone will try to improve you. I have a pretty tight filter when it comes to advice. You have to take everything said about you with a grain of salt this means the bad and the good. If you buy in it the flattery you will not grow or improve, If you believe all the negative things said about you, you will more than likely quit.

One Man One Guitar.

I love John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, RL Burnside, Lightnin' Hopkins. I love the blues and the guitar. I'm not a fan of over produced over orchestrated blues music. I like the the naked rasp of an over driven guitar and the thump of a leather sole on wood. Most modern music leaves me cold and most of the stuff I enjoy ain't on the radio.

Humble Beginnings

It statrted with a Cort Acoustic on March 23 1998. I had been introduced to Mississippi John Hurt and I loved the Dusty Ragtime sound and the dark lyrics from another time. I wanted to play like that.