Nightsinger

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Member Since:

February 27, 2009

Influences:

Immediately following my wife, Janice, who’s my most honest critic, among my influences are, and have been: Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Terry, Ernest Hemingway, Doc Watson, Dylan, Paul Simon, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Townes Van Zandt, Tim Dorsey, Steve Young, Steve Earl, Steve Goodman, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Steve Martin, Los Lobos, Freddie Fender, H.P. Lovecraft, The Everly Brothers, Robert Earl Keen, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovett, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hendrix, Robert Plant, Alison Kraus, Leadbelly, Joan Baez, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, J.R.R. Tolkein, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Mark Twain, Mark Spoelstra, Mark Knopfler, Floyd Red Cloud Westerman, Ian Tyson, Josh White, The Weavers, The Tarriers, Odetta, Chris Smither, Bill Morrissey, Larry McMurtry, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Robert Service, Gordon Lightfoot, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, John Steinbeck, Neil Young, The Dead, Hank Williams, Sr., Merle Haggard, John Mellencamp, Stan Rogers, Conac McCarthy, all the singing cowboys from Tex Ritter, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and the Sons of the Pioneers to Buck Owens, Asleep At the Wheel, and the Amazing Rhythm Aces. Then, there’s Pop Stoneman, Tim Dorsey, SAm Peckinpah, Tom Rush, Mark O’Connor, Jay Ungar, Bob Wills, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Archie Fisher, Johnny Horton, CSNY, Hoyt Axton, Jimmy Buffett, Richard Thompson, Michelle Shocked, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmie Driftwood, Merle Travis, Graham Parsons, Tom Lehrer, Bill Miller, Kate Wolf, Los Lobos, Freddie Fender, John Stewart, John Hartford, Tim Hardin, Eric Andersen, Donovan, The Rolling Stones, every friend that’s ever shared a song, Tim Haley, Mo Kauffey, Scott MacDonald, Snoshu and Rosie Bench, Gary Hertzog, Oak Smith, Bruce Verstraete, Bill Larkin, Paul Hands, Chuck Pyle, Jake Wise, Bill Riegel, Marilyn Kroecker, Peter Brind’Amour, Steve Freede, Big Step, Brass Turtle, Sam Arnold, Speedy, Fred and Carl Gonzales, Jim Craighead, Buck Vandermeer, and the list could, and does, go on and on and on.....