The Comfort Sound Sessions is my first full production album. Fidd & I recorded all vocal and acoustic guitar tracks ‘live off the floor’ with a bass player and a drummer adding only a few overdubs such as steel guitar, electric lead guitar, dobro, fiddle, sax and organ.

I was writing lots of new songs at the time and my first album project was an evolution of ongoing efforts put forth by my musical friends Bruce “Fidd” Fiddament and Dave Dolmer. Fidd and I were recording every week at Dave’s and playing live, so we were really tight.

LEVEL GROUND is a collection of 22 songs I wrote that reflect the influence of early 80’s country music radio which ultimately lead me to create The Comfort Sound Sessions and Country Music Radio Hits. The tracks are live-to-tape acoustic guitar/vocal performances featuring me and duo partner “Fidd” as recorded by our good friend, Dave Dolmer (RIP).

I became influenced by the great traditional country and neo-bluegrass artists at country music radio in the early 80’s era and began to write songs that reflected those influences. Country music radio was a rapidly growing format through those 80’s days. George Jones, Merle Haggard and Ricky Skaggs were on fire back then. Very inspiring for my songwriting.