First Sounds

Music has been in my life since I was born: I came into the world with my mother playing songs on her small-bodied Martin acoustic guitar - which she still has. I was born in the San Francisco Bay Area during the Summer Of Love, August 1967. And although much of the music here in the Bay Area was psychedelic, my mom's choices were of the folk genre. The songs I heard her play growing up were from Simon & Garfunkel, Carole King, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Carly Simon. I can vividly remember her and my father and me in our living room in the evenings as she played these songs which would lay the basic foundation of my interest in music.