I was very active in original bands (including songwriting, recording, and gigging) for twenty years, but then I took a ten-year break from music to focus on family. Over the past few years though, I've been getting back into practice and picking up some new skills. I'm looking to get back to playing with other musicians who will interest and challenge me as a musician. I would love to get back on stage. I'd be open to either originals or covers. I play both electric and acoustic guitar as well as mandolin (and several other instruments too, but guitar and mandolin are my main focus...) As an electric guitarist, I tend to lean either indie/alt (a la Big Thief, Lucy Dacus, Wavves, Superchunk, Replacements, Sleater-Kinney) or folk/alt-country (a la Wilco, Damien Jurado, Drive-By Truckers), but I can happily co-exist in a more blues/roots context too (a la Faces, Kinks, Neil Young, Chuck Berry, Johnny Winter). I'm also working on developing some skills in country and rockabilly, though that is relatively new territory for me. My base guitar tone is pure, dynamic, and a bit gritty with very few effects (maybe a bit of subtle spring reverb, tremolo, and a little delay/slapback), but I also like a more distorted/glitchy/lofi sound too. I tend toward interesting voicings and melodic parts more than chunky open chords. As a soloist, I'll follow the chords or play noise/tones with a less-is-more philosophy over noodling inside a pentatonic box. As an acoustic guitarist and mandolinist, I've been skewing bluegrass and old-time for a while, but I also love indie/experimental/folk (a la Adrienne Lenker, early Bon Iver, Gillian Welch/David Rawlings, Tom Waits). If I'm not flatpicking in standard tuning, I'll be fingerpicking in alternate tunings.