Just Me - Steve - and my acoustic guitar. I got the name Johnny's Cousin Steve when I moved to Boulder, CO back in 1994. My cousin Johnny was going to school there at CU and all his buddies were introducing me around as "Johnny's Cousin Steve". When I booked gigs there they all said, "Hey, we gotta go see Johnny's cousin Steve" - I used the name on some posters and it just stuck.
Influences
Bruce Springsteen, Elvis, The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Stones, CCR, Paul McCartney (and the rest of The Beatles), Jimmy Buffett, The Refreshments, Oasis, Soul Asylum, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Small Faces, The Faces, "Early" Rod Stewart, Black Oak Arkansas, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, NWOBHM, Humble Pie, AC/DC, America, Cat Stevens, Chuck Berry, Jim Croce, Steely Dan, John Mellencamp, The Doobie Brothers, The Drifters, Sublime, The Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Willie Nelson, Cat Stevens, Bob Segar, "One Hit Wonders"
I guess I have two music identities. I've made my living for the past 16 years performing as an Acoustic Solo in restaurants and bars, but I'm also a Singer/Songwriter. For my "cover" gigs in the bars, I give the people "what they want" - over 500 great cover songs from the past 50 years, mostly Classic Rock. Stuff they know the words to and can sing along with....but I sneak in some originals every now and then. I started back in 1992 out in Southern California - Manhattan Beach, made my way through Boulder, CO and eventually ended up back "home" in South Jersey. I would love to find a place for my songs in the world, but for now....."bye, bye, Miss American Pie"....
HEY!! Click the Thumbnails below, put your face right up to the screen, squint like Clint Eastwood and maybe you can read some of them... ...they are newspaper clippings that go as far back as 1992, (when I started out in Duo named "Shark Bite"...before moving to Colorado in 1994 and becoming "Johnny's Cousin")...Wow! 16 Years!!
