My new album is now available to download on Bandcamp and coming soon to other online sellers and streaming services. Its called Between the Droughts and the Floods. I will be releasing another album soon entitled The Future's as Bright as a Dying Star. I've never made money off my music, so feel free to buy it, steal it, stream it, borrow it, share it. I made it to be listened to, to reach as large an audience as possible, as international an audience as possible, so please do share my work. My previous albums Eat Plastic (with Abel Ashes & The Runs), Other Elements, and Found Objects -Live at lestats's (with Eric Hensel) are also available and there are a number of unfinished albums that have been laying around collecting dust for years which may finally see the light of day in the near future. I am currently unemployed and basically a full-time caretaker for my beautiful wife who was made paraplegic, and her sister was put in a coma with multiple fractures that have kept her bedridden for more than a year and a half now, in an automobile accident in 2018 while visiting her family and friends in her home country of Tunisia. Because of these circumstances my latest albums are not "low budget" but basically "no budget" affairs performed solo on rare occasions that I had the house to myself, on an inexpensive acoustic guitar using one microphone and edited, mixed, and mastered in Audacity. Prior to these recent events, which caused me to have to suddenly move to Tunisia with a couple of suitcases, one of which Turkish Airlines lost and refused to compensate me for, I worked as a concrete mixer driver in Alamogordo, New Mexico and my wife was on the pathway to US Citizenship. Unfortunately her Green Card was cancelled due to not being able to return to the USA since the accident. I was born July 7th 1973 in El Paso, Texas and grew up in several locations: Albuquerque NM, Flagstaff AZ, La Luz NM, and Tularosa NM, with annual summer trips to San Diego to see my father. My parents were involved in the Children of God cult in El Paso at the time of my birth. My father came out as homosexual (or bisexual) when my sister and I were still toddlers and my parents were divorced. My father subsequently became more and more "New Age" and "spiritual" and my mother became more and more "Evangelical Christian". My mother and I both suffered violent physical abuse at the hands of my brother's father which led my mother to leave him while she was still pregnant with my brother, moving us from Flagstaff to La Luz where her parents lived. My maternal grandfather was a brilliant and very original artist. I was a small, skinny, angry, malnourished, hypoglycemic, depressed, agnostic, National Geographic subscribing boy with an interest in unusual music, political justice, and international history. Needless to say, I was not popular with the rednecks and fundamentalists I went to school with. After much turmoil at home I left home without being able to first finish my homeschooling to receive my high school diploma and wound up getting a GED at Gary Job Corps Center in San Marcos, Texas before moving to San Diego where I worked for Landmark Theaters and began performing original music, on a warped and impossible to tune or play, Stella acoustic guitar at open mics in local coffeehouses. The guitar was given to me by my paternal grandfather who was an amateur pilot and ran an airplane parts shop at the Van Nuys Airport. He told me a fib that it was given to him by a friend who lived on a houseboat in Long Beach, an old blues musician from the Deep South, who died of cancer soon after gifting my grandpa with the beautiful old relic. My grandfather's girlfriend later told me that he had bought it at a garage sale the day before he gave it to me and decided that it was an impossible to play piece of shit and therefore would be...my first guitar! My first real concert was Fela Kuti and Egypt 80 at an outdoor festival in San Diego in the early to mid 80s. The first two albums I ever bought (on Mexican bootleg cassettes) were Dream of the Blue Turtles by Sting and Survival by Bob Marley and The Wailers. Kate Bush's Hounds of Love also had a big impact on me during this period as did a documentary I saw on TV about Frank Zappa working on Jazz From Hell...TO BE CONTINUED