I am a philosopher, conversationalist, songwriter, visual artist, person… Creating with the intent of capturing story within a space that we can travel to, within, circumnavigate and experience first-hand—much like a photograph captures the fleeting of a framed instant— the work is a continuum of ideas with threads that tie and are cut and resewn to form a fabric of conscious existence. With one foot in the South and one in the Midwest, my work is a modern blend of traditional Americana and a willingness to be Undefined.

People who haven't heard me play music ask me what kind I perform. I would like not to be rude, but it's difficult to give a single category or a 30 second elevator pitch on something you plan to work on your whole life... I don't set out to do 'one thing', so for a little while now, I’ve been saying  'I write songs for people who love Van Gogh's paintings'. I realize that's not an answer, but I want to have a dialogue about what I've written, what I’m involved in. Even if it means we only get to have it with our eyes while I perform. I want to provoke thought and connect with people. I would also love to see if I can get you to dance, laugh and cry a little.

I was born in Peachtree City, Georgia and started life as a southern gentleman; getting lost in the pines, hunting in the creeks and making child’s pottery in the red clay south of Atlanta. My family relocated to the when my parents divorce to be closer to my mother's family. I spent my best memories from 9 to 18 fishing and daydreaming on my grandparents farm just outside of St. Joseph, MO when I wasn’t lost on the Belt highway looking for signs of life. 

My work is a reflection of the places and people I’ve met along the trip, and the joy I’ve harvested.  Those spaces of timelessness that becomes our woven paradise of life… The stories are told as a way of personally exercising the experience to identify what was learned, in a search for understanding.  Always based on some version of the truth, occasionally romanticized to protect the guilty.

My influences are vast and often very recognizable… and as equally often completely untraceable… such is life.

Best Regards,

John