Mark Simonsen

Member Since:

May 28, 2006

Influences:

MUSICAL INFLUENCES: All of my professors in the UNC-CH Music Department (especially the late great Roger Hannay and Lynn Glassock), all of the musicians with whom I have ever played music (especially Jorma Kaukonen, Tony Willliamson, Don Wright, KISMET, Randy Pelosi, Tim Stambaugh, Flyin' Mice, Portastatic, The Old Ceremony, Cole Guerra, Jackie O Pillbox, Don Raleigh, Alice Gerrard, Mark Weems, The Last of the Great Sideshow Freaks, Katherine Simonsen. . . ), Bob Dylan, Roger Miller, Neil Young, Steve Earle, Edvard Grieg, Hank Williams, Thelonious Monk, Bill Monroe, Raymond Scott, Richard and Linda Thompson, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Tom Waits, The Mills Brothers, The Beatles, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, Django Reinhardt, the Everly Brothers, Franz Liszt, Jerry Jeff Walker, Slam Stewart, Edith Frost, Flatt and Scruggs, Esquivel, The New Pornographers, Ennio Morricone, Liz Phair, Al Bowlly, James Brown, Nat King Cole, Johann Sebastian Bach, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Pogues, Rogers and Hart, Charles Mingus, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, The Kinks HEROES: Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, the Wright brothers, Willie Nelson, Jesus Christ and anyone who is willing to stand up for something worthwhile even when faced with strong adversity as a result of their beliefs PEOPLE (and animals) FOR WHOM I HAVE UNDYING LOVE AND RESPECT: My wife Katherine, my parents Sofus and Inge Simonsen, my extended family and friends, and of course, my dog Max ..