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Just a brief bio….I was born and raised in South Carolina. I’ve loved music all my life. At a very young age I knew Music would be my calling.

I started writing songs at age 12 and began my professional career by age 15, traveling with the” U.S. Male Band” during the mid-70s. By the late 70s, I’d moved on to having the pleasure of traveling with the “Eastern Seaboard Band.”

In the early 80s I became one of the founding members of the “Lightnin West Band” Our first album was a great mix of music including five of my original songs. We traveled the road doing shows with, John Anderson, Johnny Paycheck, David Allen Coe, Marshall Tucker, Steve Warner, and many others, Just to name a few.

Currently I’m stayingthought can manifest itself in the serialization of the single self, in any number of seemingly separate figures. That is why, at any given moment, Vladimir and Estragon may function as individual characters or as two halves of a single whole, just as each of the four, six, seven, or even eight characters of the play, including the absent Mr. Godot(s), may function independently or as a mirror of each other or as merging elements of a single whole. As we shall see, Beckett's figures merge into a composite Cain-Abel figure, the Old Testament's first innocent victims in a gratuitously capricious, unfathomable universe.

Even at the beginning, the simplest matters of identity are obfuscated. In the text, the characters are designated as Vladimir and Estragon both in the stage