Author, musician, bandleader, poet, activist. Professor & Director of the Vernacular Music Center at Texas Tech University. Ex oil-field roughneck, lobster fisherman, medieval musician, carpenter, line cook. Direct the TTU Celtic Ensemble Teach Anglo-Celtic and African American roots musics. Proud New Englander (grew up in the "Spirit of 76" home town), political activist. Heard MLK speak in my stroller.
"A man got to have a code." --"Omar Little", "The Wire"