2018
BLOODLINES/HOPE
This is a record about Oklahoma. It's also about family and blood. It's about the earth, and karma, and generations; patience and memory, rebirth and hope. The fantastic musicians who are accompanying me on this journey (Chris Combs, Aaron Beohler, Matt Maxwell, Matt Maegerkurth, Jake Lynn, Kendal Osborne, Sarah Maud, and Liz Coffman to name a few) are making the songs roar exquisitely to life in ways I could have never expected.
“Bloodlines/Hope” is a culmination of seven years of evolution birthed from struggles, victories, unspoken words, forgiveness, and reconstruction. Your support is truly the difference in this project being my own secret and it being ours to have together.
“Bloodlines is a culmination of seven years (eighty four months) of evolution birthed from struggles, victories, unspoken words, forgiveness, and reconstruction. This album sounds like coming home feels to the soul.”
2013
JULIANNA BARWICK ‘NEPENTHE’
I had the distinct honor of playing guitar for Brooklyn-based musician and friend, Julianna Barwick. We worked together on her etherial and emotional album “Nepenthe". Touring with her, and with Sigur Rós, was an unbelievable experience. We toured the world, and along the way I began to explore parts myself I didn’t know existed. If you listen to Bloodlines closely, you’ll hear glimpses, shimmers, of those artifacts I discovered along this journey.
2011
BUFFALOSWANS 'THE BODY ELECTRIC'
The Body Electric was recorded live off the floor to 2-inch tape at Afterlife Studios in Vancouver. The sound was mixed at Vancouver's Hive Creative Labs by venerable sound wizard Jesse Gander (The Pack AD, Japandroids, White Lung). I am so proud of this album. It has a unique mixture of vintage warmth and the modern size and sheen of a classic. The release is timely, as the world rallies for new direction in compassion and awareness. Themes of faith, the eternal nature of connection, love and higher consciousness echo throughout the album. Grooving highs, psychedelic departures and quiet moments of solitude depict the scenic vistas and watery realms of the human psyche.
“A 60s style of bluesy, country-rock… a heartening reminder that in a time where our planet might seem to be falling apart, there is a stronger force bringing people together all around us if we’re buoyant enough to notice.”
2007
BUFFALOSWANS ’S/T’ (2007)
This was Buffaloswans' first self-titled release, recorded back in 2006-2007 featured some of the best musicians hiding in Vancouver, Canada. It was my first foray into sharing music with the world. Hailing from Bixby, Oklahoma, and transplanting for a decade in Montreal and Vancouver, I found my feet in the local music scene of East Vancouver. Bridging the sounds of my southern American upbringing with the expansive vision of the music of the West Coast, Buffaloswans made a stirring debut in the mid-oughts, creating earthy soundscapes for the lovesick, the outlaw, the wanderer, and the mystic.
“It’s a record that should sit alongside the work of The Band in the annals of strong Canadian Americana, and its release comes just in time for the Late Fall of Buffalowans, currently underway.”
The Beginning.