First there were recitals, then gigs at the local YMCA with a rock band during high school, then my thumb and the highway at seventeen. I play music because I love music, and sharing it makes me love it even more. I have performed to over a million people in the past thirty years. What a ride it's been.

Before the Internet, cassette tapes and CDs, being a traveling musician wasn't much more glamorous than being a truck driver. You drove, you stopped, you played, you drove some more. You'd call ahead a few weeks in advance (now it's years), talk to some club owner about dates, time and pay, and you just showed up. You didn't make a lot of money, but it was fertile ground for new songs, and the songs kept you driving. I come from that life.