We Make the Music for $100

Think of me as your secret weapon.

Think of a bass line that's slightly off-kilter in a really groovy way, a press roll on a tom to bring the drums into the song, or a banjo buried deep within the mix that acts as the driving engine which propels the whole thing forward.

I've been creating parts that define songs both on stage and in studio for over ten years, working with people whose names you know like (Jackson Browne, Adam Sandler, Benmont Tench) and people whose names you don't but who are often as good. My gigging work is mostly jazz, my background is Appalachian folk, my heart is rock and roll (old British rock'n'roll, to be precise), my piano-playing and voice are classically trained and I've had a whole lot of experience boots on the ground with the minor seconds and 11/8 rhythms of Bulgaria and the rest of what is now formerly the Ottoman Empire.

I started playing the banjo at age 12 (17 years ago now!), quickly followed by the ukulele, mandolin, guitar, bass (upright and electric), piano, organ, drums, all kinds of percussion, steel guitar, 'oud, violin, flute, button accordion, concertina, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes and all kinds of other things I can't even think of right now.

My collection of instruments is pretty vast and I can probably find what you're listening for even if you never knew you wanted it -- ask me about my chaturangui, bodhrán and G101 organ (which can sound EXACTLY like Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds).

To complement that, I've worked consistently over the last five years as a record producer and recording/mixing engineer and have learned well how to make things sound good in the box. To that end, I've found that between my Røde K2 and matched pair of NT5s, an SM7B and a handful of Sm57s and SM58s, there's no sound I can't record well. All D.I. work is done through my ACME Motown DI (which I cannot recommend highly enough). I record in Pro Tools through an Audient iD44 at any quality you like.

My rates start at $100 for one track in a two to six-minute song, but we can discuss what you want and reach some agreement if there's more -- "more" excites me and I love seeing where things go.

I nominally cap my revisions at 5 so things don't get out of hand, but my clients have always been happy after about two (and often first time out of the gate) -- it's just never been an issue.