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I grew up in a mill town on the north shore of Lake Superior in Canada. There were no musicians and no local radio stations. But at night we could pick up WLS, a powerful AM station from Chicago. I listened to Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Brooke Benton, Jerry Butler, Jackie Wilson and Otis Redding, to name a few. It wasn't like anything I had ever heard before. I knew there was a whole other world out there. I set out to find it. I started playing acoustic guitar around 1970. My first big influence was the Blues. My brother-in-law taught me how to play basic 12 bar Blues. Throughout the seventies I drifted into Country and Folk music and played in bands that included banjo, fiddle and mandolin. Explored musical roots. Got as far as the 16th century (Follow Me Up To Carlow). In the 80's I went electric. Started surfin' back downstream. I kind of personally recreated history by combining Blues and Country and came up with some mutant form of Rock and Roll. I had a band called the Reebtones (beer spelled backwards) in some obscure northern Ontario town. It was all covers, mostly Blues and Rockabilly. We played some rough places and I learned to play while dodging beer bottles. This has turned out to be a useful skill. Currently I live in southern Ontario, writing songs when I get the chance.

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