<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%" bgcolor="#f3f9fe"><tr valign="top"><td class="text"><p>I've been playing acoustic guitar and writing songs for many years. They are mostly in a fingerpicking style with a lead break usually in there somewhere. I guess I've been influenced in my playing by the likes of Bert Jansch and John Renborn and in my songwriting by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and others. I also loved the gentle sound of the great Mississippi John Hurt. He probably influenced me the most when I first started playing. The music of Nick Drake has been a more recent discovery and influence for me.&nbsp;</p></td></tr></table>