I have been singing songs in and around the Washington DC area for over fifty years.

I started out in a jug band playing mandolin and guitar. This was for fun and tips in coffee houses and church basements. I then discovered the pure joy and power of the electric guitar and groups like Creedence and The Loving Spoonfull - folky but funky; which, I guess, became my style and earned me some decent money playing for wild pool parties in the late 60s.

Another passion is the double stop fiddle - steel guitar driven - behind the beat stuff of comercial country music of the 50s and 60s. These were the same songs that Butch Neilson's uncle Gunnsteinn heard coming from the radio station at the Air Force base in Keflavik. He told me (while pouring yet another shot of Black Death) that many Icelanders became fans of American music because of that little station so long ago. 

Drew Holland