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I grew up in Denver, Colorado and studied English lit for many years, which helps with songwriting. I went to grad school at UVA in Charlottesville, VA, which was a great place to be, both because the English department at UVA is stellar and because the music scene is always great. I met many talented singer-songwriters there who were, to put it tritely, an inspiration to me. They breathed something into me, in other words. My dissertation is a history of the villanelle, which most people know as the form of Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night."
I spent three years at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, where I started a bluegrass/Americana band called Shotgun Romance. I regretfully left the band to take up a job at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. I spent a year there and didn't play much music. I'm now (amazingly enough) living in Brooklyn and working at NYU, probably just for a year, but who knows?
That fantastic harmonica on two of my songs was played by my sweet, talented, and funny long-time friend Jeff Romano of Nickeltown. He runs Greenwood Studio in Greenwood, VA.
Here's my feed from Twitter that describes what I'm up to RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND. Nanoblogging is teh uber kewl.
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