Music is how I used to make a living, but even with a career change, music still continues to be a big part of me... and always will.

Grew up around a lot of great blues and country musicians on both sides of my family. So naturally....I fell into british rock, right? Later on, I even got into various forms of Israeli and Middle Eastern music like mizrachi, yemenite, klesmer, Chassidic, etc. 

My latest challenge is learning to be an audio engineer and these are my first experiments. The Smoking Section began with so many greats from Asheville NC. Shout out to Lenny, JP, Ben, Will, Ken, Bex, and Jason Christafaro.  But then I started adding tracks from great musicians I'd meet on a long tour of the western USA in places like Houston, Tulsa, Iowa (somewhere?), Omaha, Minneapolis, Denver, Albuquerque.  We call them The Smoking Section.

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