On guitar, it has always been early Country blues and Ragtime fingerstyle guitar focusing on the styles of people like Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Reverend Gary Davis,Tampa Red and others. The originals I write are closely related to this style also. On banjo, I have focused on the early Southern Clawhammer styles, particularly West Virginia and Roundpeak style Banjo. On Ukulele, I seem to be stuck playing a lot of the Tin Pan Alley music and tunes I heard growing up. I'll soon be trying to finish up a new solo record incorporating all of these sounds. I also plan to start posting MP3 clips of some of the new recordings very soon on this page so you can keep in touch with what I am doing in this area.

I have played solo shows all over the Northeast and the South, into Colorado and also Italy,mostly in the Tuscany region. Over the years I have opened shows or shared the stage with such notable musicians as Taj Mahal, Dave Van Ronk, David Bromberg, John Hammond, Elizabeth Cotten, Pat Donahue, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Jimmie Dawkins, Dan Hicks, J Geils band, Nickolette Larson, my good friends Paul Geremia, Paul Rishell and John Mooney among many others. I got to record 3 CD's with the band Roll and Tumble with which I played with for nearly nine years. The last one we did, called Rattle that thing" also features John Mooney on some cuts. Click on the link below to hear some of the tunes.

Custom Guitar….

I completed building my 11th guitar (a Rosewood 000 cutaway style 12 fret) and play that consistently in my Florida shows. I recently put the finishing touches on a Brazilian Rosewood"Gibson Style" 185. There is also a Gibson Style J35 that is just being finished up and that may well be my last one as I just don't seem to have the time for this any more. I think I would rather spend my time playing. I also have an Artist relationship with National Resophonic Guitars in San Luis Obispo which are still my favorite instruments of all to play, and I work hard to promote their guitars on all of my shows. I will always have at least three of these on stage with me at any show. They have built me several exquisite instruments. I have recently worked on a guitar design with them, and hand painted the body which is titled the "Custom Corso" resonator guitar. It is now available through the Custom shop at National guitars.com. I play Collings guitars, National Guitars, and guitars I built myself Lastly, I represent Fishman Electronics for both live shows and recording.

I completed a design for National guitars a while back on an M14 guitar for a Namm show, featuring a custom one off paint job that I did for them. Starting with an M14 guitar which is a deeper body, it was finished in a midnight blue color including the neck and peghead. I then painted the scene on the guitar to keep somewhat in the tradition of the originals with palm trees and a serenading musician in a boat, but with a more modern twist. The entire color scheme of the guitar was to reflect a moonlight scene.The body was then clear coated and assembled by National Guitars and featured in the Namm show in California. The guitar has been sold, but It is featured on their website under the Custom Guitars section and is called the "Corso Custom" resonator guitar.

Custom Design Images