I play Guitars:Electric, Acoustic, Nylon: Rock, Jazz, Country, R&B, Rockabilly, Slide,Fingerstyle, Chicken Pickin’.
Also Play Keyboards: Piano, Rhodes, B3, Clavinet, Wurli,Synth, Strings.
Also Play Mandolin, Lap Steel and Percussion.
Lead and Harmony Vocals.
Also Read and write charts. Can be Musical Director/Arranger.
Guitars/Keyboards/mandolin/Vocals with The Nils Lofgren Band
Guitars with Bedhed and Blondy
Guitars/Keyboards with Robert Lee Castleman - 2002 Grammy Award Winner Best Country Song“The Lucky One”
Keyboards/Guitars with The Fabulous Mary Ann Redmond Band
Performing Songwriter
Guitar, Recording, Music Technology, Theory/Arranging/Composition Teacher
I have also played music onstage or in the studio with:
Bruce Springsteen, Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter, Tony Trischka, Dobie Gray,
Marian James, Dave Hamburger, The Kennedys, Stacy Phillips, Nick Nixon, Timm Biery, Mark Egan, The Nighthawks, Jesse Yawn, Paul Reisler, Johnsmith, Vance Gilbert, Kate McDonnell, Connie Francis, Steve Allen, Suzanne Fiering, Dory Previn, Leonard Bernstein, Katharine Hepburn
1998 and 1999 Helen Hayes Award Nominee:
Outstanding Musical Director of a Resident Musical
for productions of:
Hair and Kerouac at the Studio Theater, Washington, DC
Composer for Film, Television and Video including:
Fox Television Network – America's Most Wanted
PBS Television Network
President Bill Clinton and President George Bush
The Smithsonian Institution
Composer/Arranger of 3 Off‑Broadway Musicals
Author of 16 Instruction Books/CDs Published by Alfred Music:
StandAlone Basic Guitar vols. 1 & 2
The Ultimate Guitar Chord Bible
StandAlone Jazz Guitar
Jazz Guitar Concepts
Jazz for the Rock Guitarist
Chord Connections
Jazz Chops For Guitar
Beginning Rock Keyboards
Blues Chops For Guitar
StandAlone Blues Guitar
StandAlone Funk Guitar
StandAlone Rhythm Guitar
StandAlone Classic Rock Guitar
StandAlone Rockabilly Guitar
The Ultimate Guitar Chord and Scale Bible
Formerly Head Teacher/Director Of Resources At The National Guitar Workshop
Discography:
2013 • Bedhed and Blondy Live (ElectricGuitar) Bedhed and Blondy
2013 • Out There On The Yard (AcousticGuitar, Slide Guitar, Mandolin) Jeremy Dean
2013 • The Man Who Would Be Swing (Acoustic Guitar-Django style) TheSeavers
2012 • Linda B. (Train) (Mandolin) Murray Fentress
2011 • All That I Need (Dobro,Mandolin) DavidMonfore
2006 • Nils Lofgren and Friends Live DVD (Keyboards,Guitars) Nils Lofgren &Friends
2005 • The Nils Lofgren Tribute Show DVD (Keyboards,Guitars, Mandolin) Nils Lofgren & Friends
2003 • Old Friends Buck Brown
2002 • The Nils Lofgren Band Live The Nils Lofgren Band
2000 • Slip Away Buck Brown
1991 • Any Poor Fool Buck Brown
1989 • Fireworks Buck Brown