I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.

I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.

I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.

Folk-punk artists like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb or Paul Baribeau were popular in the Florida punk community. I saw people early on combine roots music with more aggressive music.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.