Sometimes life gives you the blues. And then there are those times it really sucks. Welcome to my festively pathetic life.
A leader in southeastern North Carolina's musical community for over a decade, “Love Whip” is the founder of the Blues Society of the Lower Cape Fear, Beat Magazine and the Hard Listenership concert series. He has taught blues history, songwriting and harmonica to over 2,000 people, ranging in age from four to eighty-four in workshops, seminars, arts camps and private lessons, including those for Laura Dern for the film, Ramblin' Rose. He has been featured in eight films and numerous television documentaries and incorporated five blues societies outside of the Cape Fear region. He has performed with Mojo Collins, Saffire, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Koko Taylor, the James Cotton Band, Drink Small, Big Boy Henry, Walter "Lightnin' Bug" Rhodes, Johnny Shines, Guitar Gabe, "Slippery Jake" Horton, Mark Hibbs, Truth, and the Blue Rhythm Club, as well as his two currently active bands, the HighRollers and Makin' Whoopie.
