“Born in Siler City. Dad woke me up on Saturdays by playing The Who. My mom played herself through college in Wilmington NC bars. Wrote my first song on a prewar Gibson L00 that my dad bought in a Goodwill. Narrative is important to me. Dismal and funny are not mutually exclusive. Southern Gothic. Grotesque. Southern. Small details > grand statement. Touch the universal through a zoom on the finite. I like to talk to strangers. Play hard enough to sweat. Flannery O’Connor.

Most of the time I want my songs to be complete thoughts. I like concrete details and in-focus images, and I like character driven narrative. A lot of my songs are short stories. I try to tell the truth even when the story is made up.”