This musical journey for me started when I was eight. I had my mother’s piano in my bedroom and tinkled on it from time to time. At fourteen I bought a drum set but had to return it because it was too loud. Then I started playing my dad’s guitar at sixteen. It was classic old Martin O18. The Beatles were my first real band that pulled me in to the music mecca, and later it was Led Zepplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, Steppenwolf, and Crosby, Stills & Nash, just to name a few. At eighteen I started writing Christian songs with a group named Faith Hope and Love. I was greatly influenced at the time with Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant and Keith Green. Nothing ever came of all my song writing till 1998. I had put together a studio in my house and started recording the first Dawson CD. I later moved to a commercial building near Long Beach and did another album titled Windmill. My son was a major part of both CDs, but it was the start of something that drove me to open up another studio and write five more CDs on my own: Breach, On Top, Mundane Hero, Duffel Bag Cuisine, Grey Matters. And I have written almost religiously since with tons of ideas and boxes of tapes and mp3s. I have written at least a hundred songs that have been totally recorded, with hundreds still not fully developed. I write a slew of ideas usually in the morning with coffee and use my 10 and win method to pick and choose the ones that I see promise in. A process of elimination. I enjoy folk, folk rock and rock. I believe I’m on this Earth to make a dent, hopefully it’s a good one!