In 1991 I started playing music with a friend at my high school. We wanted to have a band but never took the time to find anyone else to write and play with. Eventually we settled on the name Henry after my friend visited Thoreau's gravesite on a family vacation.

We performed live one time at a talent night at the school.

In 1993 I left town. After I left, my friend went to a studio and recorded a four song Henry demo of songs he had written. The demo got a favorable review in our high school's paper, which was the height of our success.

By 1996 I had moved to a small college town and started playing coffee houses as a solo acoustic folk guy. In that year I formed a folk combo called Stomach Full of Butterflies and had been recruited into a local ska punk band. I did both groups for a little more than a year. Both fell apart around the same time.

In 1998 I wrote a handful of songs with a friend and played two small shows under the name Still Water.

I moved to Salt Lake City in 1999 and didn't do anything with music for a few years. In 2002 I started recording demos at home but was very slow about it. By 2004 I had recorded a dozen or so songs when I ran into an old friend who I had played with briefly during my time in the ska band.

He was playing bass in an indie pop band called Vista:Four with a number of other old friends. I joined as a second guitar player. We recorded an ep and sold about 500 copies. After the members of Vista:Four moved on, the friend who got me into Vista:Four recruited me into his punk band The Willkills. I played with them for a short time but it wasn't a good fit for me or the band so I bowed out.

Musically my time is now spent writing and recording at home for this site.