My journey truly began one cold night in a Connex Box, located at Camp Doboj, Bosnia Herzegovina. It is there where a simple question was posed, “Do you play guitar?” In a million years I never could have anticipated that the response, “Do you sing?” would lead me on a creative journey of introspective-discovery and musical exploration, and ignite a fire that burns even today. The sojourn on which I have embarked will undoubtedly continue throughout my life and has indelibly changed the way I perceive all things.

Being born of goodly parents who raised me, along with my brother and sisters, on a healthy regiment of sixties music staring the Beatles, I learned early on the power of great music. After I received my first acoustic guitar at the age of ten, I developed an affinity for guitar-based music. Unfortunately my other youthful endeavors overshadowed the guitar and I became disinterested putting aside the instrument for another four years. Thankfully, at age fourteen my father, who works as the producer on my recordings and writings, introduced me to the electric guitar, a Fender Mustang. I was indelibly changed by the instrument and quickly became enamored with the many possibilities the medium provided to express oneself.

After meeting Jason Nelligan, singer/front man extraordinar, on that fateful night in Bosnia, we quickly had over twenty songs written in the span of one month. Always the eternal pessimist, I found it hard to believe I could be a songwriter. However, emboldened by our success performing many of the songs for soldiers providing security for our mission, and the fact that they didn’t laugh, ridicule, or worse, exact physical revenge for the waste of their time, I felt that perhaps I had a talent for song writing.

I now have a catalogue of over eighty songs that include genres that run the gamut, rock, county, pop, electronica, etc. With any luck, sooner rather than later, I will have a number of these songs published. Either way, I will continue developing as a songwriter and, more importantly, continue on the journey I began so many years ago, thankful that music has made me a better man, husband, father, and friend.

Third Lane Over The song is about the feeling of seeing a great opportunity and being out of position to take full advantage of the opportunity.

Rock

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