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๐ŸŽธ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป has been part of the New Orleans music scene since the โ€™80s โ€” writing songs that stick with you and playing them like he means it.

He got his start with ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€ โ€” an award-winning band that helped put him on the map โ€” before stepping out front with the ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—•๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ. His sound blends pop, rock, country, and funk, and heโ€™s played everywhere from ๐—ง๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎโ€™๐˜€ to ๐—๐—ฎ๐˜‡๐˜‡ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜. ๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Heโ€™s penned over ๐Ÿญ,๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ songs โ€” with more than ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฌ picked up by artists from Nashville to NOLA. He co-wrote most of ๐—๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ป โ€œ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฎโ€ ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜€โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ฅ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟโ€™๐˜€ ๐—ข๐—ป ๐—™๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ, and had a streaming hit with Svrcinaโ€™s โ€œIsland,โ€ which passed 1 million plays on Spotify. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ“€

These days, he fronts ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป with ๐ŸŽธ ๐—ง๐—ถ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—•๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, teaches songwriting at Tulane and history at Loyola and LSU โ€” a musician, a storyteller, and a guy who never stopped doing the work.

๐—š๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ข๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€, the latest Carson Station release, picked up support from the ๐—๐—ฎ๐˜‡๐˜‡ & ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—™๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป and ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—–๐˜‚๐—น๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—™๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป. Theyโ€™re already deep into the next record โ€” with another grant helping to keep the fire burning. ๐Ÿ’ฟ๐ŸŽค๐Ÿ”ฅ

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