Michael Gulezian
Michael Gulezian is a great player with a style all his own. Michael got his start through John Fahey's Tacoma records and has shared the stage with such luminaries as Leo Kottke . Michael was also a close friend to Michael Hedges. I first met Michael at ISU in the early 1980's when he was playing a concert there in the "Bengal Lair". Since then we have become friends. He has been an inspiration for me to keep playing since I first met him.

House Concerts
Let's do a house concert! To see how, click above or contact me!

Bill Mize
Bill has got to be the best player in the melodic tradition that I have ever heard. A listener will not hear anyone playing more melodically than what one can hear on his Sugarlands and Tender Explorations CD's. If Mozart were to be reincarnated as a contemporary fingerstyle guitar player, I don't believe that even he could do better than Bill Mize.

Henry's Fork Foundation
This is an organization who has taken on the task of trying to preserve the internationally renowned fishery that the Henry's Fork of the Snake River is known to be. They have been supporters of my music almost since I put out my first CD. I have spent many hours on the Henry's Fork fishing and taking inspiration. "Water Under the Bridge" on Waiting for the Sun was inspired by an experience I had on the Henry's Fork.

Will Ackerman
Although I have yet to meet him, I feel I must say that his early playing through his Windham Hill recording days during the 1980's was another inspiration to me to keep going, despite the lightning tapping speed and overbearing volume of Eddie Van Halen and the heavy metal era.

Taylor Guitars
I've owned a Martin guitar since I graduated from college in 1978. And I still own a Martin guitar and probably always will, considering that I lived only about a 30-minute drive from the Martin Guitar factory for the first 27 years of my life. But it wasn't until my wife bought me my first Taylor guitar that I really began composing. I suppose it was something about the way that Taylor 512 sounded. Since then, I just can't seem to put my Taylor guitars down. Thanks Bob for making great guitars and for encouraging fingerstyle guitarists across the nation to keep pickin’.

Alex de Grassi
Alex de Grassi is another inspiration from the 1980's whom I discovered through Will Ackerman and the Windham Hill record collection.

Natural Resources Defense Council
I have been a member of this organization for some time now. Linking them to my site is another way I can say "Thank you" to an organization fighting the good fight and helping to preserve some of our natural surroundings for future inspiration and the rejuvenating potential for the human soul that only wild and Natural environments can produce.

Steve Kimock
I first met Steve when we were both at Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania back in the early 1970's. I don't know if he remembers it, or even if he knows it, but it was he who first got me to see the patterns which the half steps fall into on the guitar neck and which, once seen, can open up the secrets of the scales on the guitar. Since then, he has been touring the country and the world playing his style of rock-jazz fusion in a way that only he can do.

Kestrana's Website Creation & Construction
This is Raederle Clay's website constructing business. She is an independent website designer. As an independent musician, I can really relate with what she's trying to do with her website business. What you see here could not have been done without her.

John Gorka
John is another acquaintance of mine who dates to the early days of the Godfrey Daniels Coffee House in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We met each other there in the late 1970's. About that time, I had the honor, on numerous occasions, of sitting-in with him and members of David Fry's band, "Steppin' Out". When I moved to Idaho, I lost touch with those guys. Since then, like Steve Kimock, John has been touring the country and the world making a name for himself as one of the most original singer-songwriters to come out of the Eastern folk circuit for the last 30 years.

Barnes & Noble
This is the "Barnes and Noble" book store in Idaho Falls, Idaho. This store and the Macy's Store in that same shopping mall in Idaho Falls, have been a great help to me by allowing me to perform and sell CD's in Idaho Falls. I would also like to thank Kim Clark of the old Macy's store in Pocatello for helping me with this too. As an independent musician, making a CD is not a cheap undertaking. But to have a few retail stores who are supportive and who offer me a place to perform and sell CD’s sure can help pay the bills.

Steve Eaton
I have known Steve almost since the first year I moved to Pocatello. During the mid 1980's, I had the honor to play with Steve on a number of occasions during his many performances at the Sandpiper in Pocatello. When it came time for me to record my first CD, Waiting for the Sun in 1998, Steve was my obvious choice. Since then I have gotten many compliments on the unique sound which he helped me to get for that CD.

Century High School
Century High School in Pocatello is where I have been teaching English since the fall semester of 1999. Some the most ardent and polite listeners of mine have been those students in my classes over the years that I have taught in the Pocatello School District. Some of those English students of mine also became guitar students during the lunch hour. --Thanks you guys!

Marcus Eaton
I first met Marcus Eaton at Steve's house when Marcus was in junior high school. Then, later when he was barely out of high school, while I was recording Waiting for the Sun at his father's studio, Marcus and his friend and drummer, Nate Keezer, came in wanting to share with me what they had been working on recording for their first CD. It didn't take me long to come to the conclusion that these kids were going to go places. And indeed they have been!

Kyle Aho
It wasn't long after Kyle, and his brother, Ken, and Shane Lindsay played for my 40th birthday party that I found myself recording electric lead guitar tracks for Ken's Skinny Boy: Johnny yer A Beanpole CD. From the first day I heard Kyle play the keyboards, I knew this kid would do something with his musical talent. After graduating from ISU in the music department, and after spending a number of years playing and performing out of Boston, Massachusetts, I find it to be no surprise that he is, or will be, recording with Marcus Eaton. What a combination those two are going to make!

Established: July 2006
Last Updated: 30 March 2008