Lightning Hopkins, T Bone Burnett, Charlie Patton, Bruce Cockburn, Maybelle Carter, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, Blind Willie Johnson, Joni Mitchell, Rasan Roland Kirk, Steve Jobs
Just out of high school, John realized that writing songs and playing the guitar was a great way to meet chicks. Besides, Woody Guthrie was pretty impressive in an unwashed kind of way. After gigging around for a couple of years, his musical path took a different direction: In radio. But even after a whole bunch of years in the cesspool of broadcasting, the passion for writing songs and playing the guitar, like a persistant rash, never completely goes away. John is a Fort Lauderdal-Florida native currently living in Manhattan, (strike that, I'm back in the swamp) but he's spent time in Texas, Cali, Detroit and a couple of nights in a motel room in Oxnard.
