Hey folks! Thanks so much for visiting my website!

Welcome! I thought I might give you a little of my background, both musical and personal. I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and currently live in Santa Rosa, where I've been a part of the music scene here, both as a musician and a fan, for the past 25 years. Growing up on the SF Peninsula in Burlingame, I was so fortunate to have easy access to the music scene all around in the 1960s and all that ensued in the years that followed. I couldn't get enough of all the great rock bands, Americana and folk bands, and jazz artists who were flourishing and performing all around. Didn't matter the venue, be it Fillmore, Winterland, Keystone Corner, Greek Theatre, the Oakland Coliseum, or the Jazz Workshop, I went to as many shows as I could, starting with my first Fillmore show when I was 16. (It was The Chamber Brothers and The Charlatans, BTW.)

I was fortunate to attend a high school with a great music department and a GREAT music teacher, John Catalano, may he rest in peace. The high school was Serra, San Mateo. Mr Catalano, being a multi-instrumentalist, and I mean multi, i.e. everything, taught me and several others how to play banjo, from which we formed a banjo band, and a Dixieland jazz band. Though I started out playing guitar, he then got me to take up the trombone and had me playing in the jazz dance band my Junior and Senior years. It was there where I fell in love with the American Song Book (Ellington, Basie, Porter, Webb, and all the others). Though I no longer play either the banjo or the trombone, I am still inspired and influenced by those gorgeous jazz standards. I also find inspiration from Jobim, Lennon and McCartney, Robert Hunter, Jackson Browne, John Prine, John Hyatt, and so many others too numerous to mention.

I've lived up and down the state of California since graduating from SF State. I've been playing in garage bands, rock bands, blues bands, and jazz bands all my adult life. About 35 years ago I started getting into song writing and have found that nothing gives me more pleasure than this. I have found my bliss in the recording studio where I can produce my CDs and have a finished product there in my hands when finished. I have been so lucky and blessed to have found the most skilled and talented engineer in all of Sonoma County and beyond, Paul Lamb. No exaggeration.

I currently play in a Blues band, The Fulton Brothers, and we're just now lining up some gigs now that things are starting to reopen post-pandemic. I'm also playing with a bunch of jazz musicians on a regular basis, mostly jam sessions so far. I'm now back in the recording studio and have 24 new tunes lined up for two more CDs. Their release will hopefully be sooner than later.

Now on a personal side, I was married for thirty years to a wonderful woman, Barbara, a family physician. I lost her to cancer in 2013. We had a son, Ryan, who lives close by in Napa. I received my MFT license in 1992 and worked for Sonoma County Mental Health Services until I retired in 2014. And more recently, I found true happiness when I met and fell in love with the most beautiful and loving woman one can imagine. Her name is Adele and we are engaged to be married this summer. She's from Brazil and grew up on Bossa Nova and Samba. (You may start noticing that particular flavor in some of my newer songs.)

Well , that's me in a nutshell. I do hope you like what you hear and hope you keep coming back!

Thanks!
Steve